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Demolition University (1999)

Demolition University (1999)

  DEMOLITION UNIVERSITY 1999, Kevin Tenney If I can offer only one piece of advice to the impressionable youths out there in internet land, it is this: Don’t go to university. Or more importantly, don’t go to university if you are going to study anything that doesn’t lead to a specific vocation. Study to be...
This is how you end a movie!

This is how you end a movie!

In Hong Kong, they really know how to end a movie. Remember that insane ending from Red Panther? Don’t? Check it out, I posted it here a while back. Well, how about another insane ending, dear reader?  This week I would like to share with you, the internet, the ending from the Category III oddity...
More Trash from My Private Stash

More Trash from My Private Stash

Today I give you another selection of fun covers from my video collection. I love all these covers for various reasons. Some feature awesome artwork, some cool design and others just make me giggle.  
To Hell with the Devil (1981)

To Hell with the Devil (1981)

TO HELL WITH THE DEVIL 1981, John Woo THWTD stars Hong Kong 1980s comedy mainstay, Ricky Hui as Bruce. Bruce is a lovesick songwriter, conman and aspiring pop star who also happens to be in love with the fickle, Peggy. The unscrupulous management of an evil pop star called Rocky manage to steal one of...
My Tutor (1983)

My Tutor (1983)

MY TUTOR 1983, George Bowers Matt Lattanzi, who played some guy called Brad in Grease 2, stars in this thoroughly mediocre teen sex comedy from the early days of the 80s. Light on the funnies, boobs and all that other stuff that makes 80s cinema great, My Tutor delivers little worth remembering. Except for one...
Tomboy (1985)

Tomboy (1985)

TOMBOY 1985, Herb Freed Based on the cover and tagline, Tomboy looks like the kind of movie your sister would have borrowed at the video store in the late 1980’s expecting a gentle romantic comedy in the vein of John Hughes and been sorely disappointed. Alternatively, a teenage boy whose disappointed sister happened to hire...
Worst gunshot reaction ever?

Worst gunshot reaction ever?

This week in Show Me Face, I present to you one of my favourite little oddities (of many) inexplicably left in the theatrical cut of a Hong Kong film. From In the Line of Duty 4, comes this little gem. When I first watched this movie I rewound and played the below four seconds over...
Savage Streets (1984)

Savage Streets (1984)

SAVAGE STREETS 1984, Danny Steinmann Apparently in the 1980s high school could be the most amazing 24/7 orgy of sex and hijinks as seen in classics like Screwballs and Porky’s. Alternatively, high school could also be a nightmarish existence, where beatings, murder, drugs and rape were commonplace as seen in films such as Class of...
Peacock King (1988)

Peacock King (1988)

PEACOCK KING original title: Kujaku ô 1988, Ngai Choi Lam Only in Hong Kong could a movie with such a stupid name be ridiculously awesome. From Ngai Choi Lam, director of popular HK nasties Story of Ricky and Her Vengeance, comes the special effects and martial arts joyride that is Peacock King, or The Peacock...
Dream a Little Dream (1989)

Dream a Little Dream (1989)

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM 1989, Marc Rocco “Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I’ll show you a bully and bore.” ― Robert Morley High school truly does suck, or did suck in the case of old people like myself who are long past those years. And as such the above...
Legacy of Rage (1986)

Legacy of Rage (1986)

LEGACY OF RAGE 1986, Ronny Yu Before Ronny Yu went to Hollywood and directed the popular horror films, Bride of Chucky (1998) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003), he was making some super-stylish action flicks in Hong Kong. The Chow Yun Fat kung fu epic, The Postman Fights Back (1982), and his critically praised The Bride...
Screwballs (1983)

Screwballs (1983)

SCREWBALLS 1983, Rafal Zielinski Let me begin by saying that Screwballs is probably my all time favourite teen comedy. Since seeing it as a teenager, however many decades ago that was, it retains its status as the most immature and absurdly watchable guilty treats going around. If movies were junk food, this would be the...