The 1960s get ever groovier as Batman hits TV screens.
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Deadly Spawn, The AKA Return Of The Alien’s Deadly Spawn (1982) Cast: Charles Hilderbrandt, Tom De Franco, Jean Tafler Director: Douglas McKaewon Nutshell: underrated creature feature featuring a sensationally ugly monster “very grotesque” Creature Features “a marvel of imaginative low-budget filmmaking” Psychotronic Video Guide “Good sense not to take…
Gunmaster G9: Surakksha (1979) Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta, Jeevan, Aruna Irani, Suresh Oberoi Director: Raveekant Nagaich Music: Bappi Lahiri Synopsis: This fantastic desi Bond film is one of the great Bollywood cult classics. Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 8.7/10 This film combined three elements that brought off several B-grade…
Up From The Depths (1979) Cast: Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye. Dir: Charles B. Griffith Synopsis: Monster Fish with a rapacious appetite rampages through a Hawaiian Holiday Resort with devastating consequences. Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 1.8/10 It is a film forgotten by time, indeed one of the…
Mera Naam Raja (1978) Cast: Habib, Naghma, Sangeeta, Munawar Zareef, Mussarat Shaheen Director: Hamid Usmani Synopsis: Bond inspired caper promises much but fails to live up to its spectacular poster Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.1/10 An intriguing, animated title sequence to some plagiarized R.D. Burman title music…
Kalabaaz (1977) Cast: Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Dev Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Asrani Director: Ashok Roy Nutshell: a potent combination of faith, morality, and sacrifice that twists halfway into a roller-coaster treasure hunt. Not for the faint-hearted. Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.9/10 The Summer of 1977 the era…
Border (2002) Cast: Shaan, Reema, Moammar Rana, Sana, Badar Munir, Babar Ali Director: Iqbal Kashmiri Nutshell: A film loaded with overt hatred, abuse, bombastic chest thumping and spewing hate made in a society that champions “Peace, Love and Tolerance” drives my love of Cinema. Border…
A hugely entertaining slice of Gang War nostalgia rates as one of the great movies about New York City.