Black Dynamite

Black Dynamite

“But Black Dynamite I sell drugs in the community!” Dynamite! Dynamite! Before I get into this review of possibly the greatest spoof to cross the silver screen in the last decade or two, I feel that I should explain blaxploitation. After watching Black Dynamite and hurting myself beyond hope with laughter, I thought about why it is that I found the movie...

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

The blood looks thin, yet flows with a crimson that is akin to fruit punch or cranberry juice freshly poured from the bottle. The volume of it seems endless.  In the world of the Tokyo Gore Police an Engineer’s wounds can shoot a stream of blood so powerful that it could be used as a form of transportation. Just imagine a man with no legs flying around in the...

American Gangster

American Gangster

“This is America!” Three famous words as cited by Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) in the bio-pic American Gangster . As an old gangster historian and student to organized crime, it would not be fair for me to say my anticipation for this movie was one of excitement. No it is needless to say that I expected the same crap Hollywood typically does in taking...

Miami Vice

Miami Vice

Okay, take an old tv show’s title, throw in some of the same flavor of partnered cops versus the world and then just make it extra gritty and dirty for the realism. Mix in a hot Asian woman, a hot black woman, and a dead-eye femme fatale plus some cut-throat drug runners, then sprinkle with some Aryan nation trailer trash. Once you have the formula, iron it...