The Video Vacuum
Exploring the wild, weird world of cinema since 2007.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
KILLING AMERICAN STYLE (1988) **
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Killing American Style is the unmistakable work of Amir Shervan, director of Samurai Cop and Young Rebels. It features all his tradema...
SHAFT (2019) ****
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When Richard Roundtree sauntered through the streets of New York in 1971’s Shaft, it announced not only the arrival of an iconic African...
MERCENARY (1997) ** ½
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John Ritter is a millionaire CEO whose wife is killed in a terrorist attack by Martin Kove. The government won’t do anything about it, s...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (2019) *** ½
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With Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99, writer/director S. Craig Zahler has proved to be one of the most interesting voices in fi...
Sunday, June 23, 2019
DARK PHOENIX (2019) ***
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Dark Phoenix isn’t the final X-Men movie (unless The New Mutants gets shelved permanently), but it kind of feels like it (and I’m not sa...
RISING LIKE A PHOENIX… THE RETURN OF A MOVIE THEATER
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I’m not exactly sure when it happened, probably sometime in 1986 if my movie-watching notes are correct, but it was a big deal when a ne...
Thursday, June 13, 2019
WHITE GHOST (1989) ** ½
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William Katt is part Tarzan, part Rambo, and part Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon in this nutty, uneven Jungle Action Movie. The...
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