Welcome to Short Ends. Quick (ish) reviews of a handful (ish) of movies. Sometimes connected by a theme, sometimes not. In this debut instalment, Matty delivers a potted history of Full Moon boss Charles Band’s ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s directorial assignments. … Read More Short Ends: A Charles Band Film
Matty revisits the directorial debut of the mighty Jim Wynorski and finds it almost as well-developed as the chests of its starlets. … Read More The Lost Empire (1984): The Shape of Jims to Come
Dave checks out the final Gary Graver XXX’r to be released during the fabled ‘Golden Age of Pornography’.… Read More Sex Play (1984): A Rare Flop
Dave keeps it all in the family, and checks out Gary Graver’s first foray into the burgeoning XXX market for fauxcest.… Read More We Are Family: Unthinkable (1984)
Dave pounds the beat with Colleen Brennan for Gary Graver’s hardboiled crime-porno.… Read More Hill Street Blue Movie: Trinity Brown (1984)
Matty rewinds for a quick look at the first erotic thriller the subgenre’s queen, Shannon Tweed, ever starred in.… Read More The Surrogate (1984): Unhappily Married
Matty looks back (get it?) at the Greek B-movie specialist’s slick murder mystery. … Read More The Eyes of Nico Mastorakis: Blind Date (1984)
Dave dissects Olive’s disc of Larry Cohen’s strangest movie.… Read More Blu-Ray Review: Special Effects (1984)
The first three films in the sprawling Stephen King-based franchise get the Blu-ray treatment in a boxset to be approached with caution. … Read More Blu-Ray Review: 88 Films’ Children of the Corn Trilogy
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