Retro Review: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (1991)

Retro Review: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (1991)

With a rare couple of hours to myself, and quite up to date with my TV viewing, I found myself on the couch with a gap in my schedule and nothing to fill it. A lazy trawl through what was available and I stumbled across a movie, starting in just minutes. It was a...
Retro Review: EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Retro Review: EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Smokey And The Bandit, The Cannonball Run, hell – even Forrest Gump, there used to be a fine line in moves that seemed to be pure celebrations of Americana. Blue-collar people from less fashionable regions, frequently involving a road trip of some kind, doing...
Retro Review: OUTLAND (1981)

Retro Review: OUTLAND (1981)

The not-too-distant future. Io. The third moon of Jupiter. 262,070 miles from the planet. 70 hours from the nearest space station. One supply shuttle per week. Surface gravity is 1/6th that of Earth. Here you can find Con-Am 27, an off-world titanium ore mining...
Retro Review: COBRA (1986)

Retro Review: COBRA (1986)

Way back in 1986, Canon Films released one of their true timeless masterpieces of action cinema, Cobra. A young 11-year-old Shawn sat in the theatre and basked in the violent glory of Lieutenant Marion “Cobra” Cobretti blowing away mooks like it was cool (which it is)...
Retro Review: DEATH HUNT

Retro Review: DEATH HUNT

What do you get when you put Chuck Bronson, Lee Marvin, and Carl Weathers in a movie together?  You get a badass action flick called Death Hunt. Death Hunt is a 1981 action film set in the Canadian Yukon in 1931. American veteran war hero Albert Johnson, played by...