Pure Brucesploitation: Enter the Game of Death (1978) By Justin Decloux Have you heard of the new fad that's sweeping the nation? It's BRUCESPLOITATION! Bruce Lee's death left a vacuum of expectation in its wake, so a bunch of weaselly producers decided to cash in on...
Will and Justin discuss the career of the Important Canadian Director - Atom Egoyan. They talk his breakthrough hit Exotica, his last film Remember, PLUS, A CONTEST: Advertise the podcast in the most creative way you can, send us evidence of this at...
A compact Hitchcock thriller forgotten as a footnote in Canuxploitation history. Director Dan Hennessey stretches a simple cat and mouse premise to its utmost limits, at times bordering on BLOOD SIMPLE territory. Mighty praise I know, but I have to get people to...
Why weren't they able to make cinema audiences laugh? Will and Justin discuss the big screen debuts of four funnymen that were never meant to be stars. They sing the praises of FREDDY GOT FINGERED and the Bob Saget-directed masterpiece DIRTY WORK, and are more...
Legend of Zu was one of the first Hong Kong DVDs I ever bought. I got it from a tiny shop in Ottawa's China Town and forked over around $40 (two weeks worth of bag boy work!) to pay for the retail release. I'm not sure why that particular movie was the one that caught...
Look at that poster. Just soak it in. Okay. Now forget it, because that never happens in the film. This is ROTOR. Yea, it's your Dad's friend Jeff. The guy who clung to the memory of 70s cool until he died in that drunk driving accident a few years back. ROTOR...
On this week's episode, Justin and Will dive into the work of everyone's favorite violence loving comedian Takeshi Kitano. They talk about the funniest film of all time, the difficult in contextualizing the work of famous person from another country, and Johnny...
During the intermission of the Ultraman Double Bill at the Royal Cinema this weekend, I noticed that there was a handful of kids hanging around in the lobby with their parents. All of the kids had giant grins on their faces and a few of them actually had Ultraman...
"You watched them all over again?" a number of friends asked this week. "Yes, I did" I would say sadly. "Why?" The idea of being a completest means nothing in this world. With so much stuff to absorb, being able to say "I did it all," rings like a broken bell in an...
I have been of two minds when it comes to trailer compilations. On one hand, it's always nice to have a curated collection of trailers to play in the background at a party, but on the other hand it's difficult for me to justify paying 30+ dollars on a bunch of...
