MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema

A randomly comprehensive survey of extraordinary movie experiences from the art house to the grindhouse, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, but not the boring or the banal.

Saturday, August 25, 2018

TARGET FOR KILLING (Der Geheimnis der gelben Moenche, 1966)

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M anfred R. Köhler's "The Secret of the Golden Monks" plays out like a hybrid movie, part Bond-inspired Eurospy action, part...

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Pre-Code Parade: HOT PEPPER (1933)

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M arine Corps Captain Jim Flagg (aka "the Admiral" or "His Flagship") and Sergeant Harry Quirt were created by Maxwell...

Sunday, August 12, 2018

KNIFE OF ICE (Il coltello di ghiaccio, 1972)

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F or four years, and over four films, erstwhile Hollywood "Baby Doll" Carroll Baker was the muse of Italian director Umberto Len...

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Too Much TV: CLOAK AND DAGGER (2018 - ?)

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T he catastrophic failure of The Inhumans was the effective end of Marvel Studios' relationship with the ABC broadcast network. As Age...

Sunday, August 5, 2018

SWORD OF SATAN (Nemuri Kyōshirō 6: Masho-ken 1965)

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R aizo Ichikawa played the Japanese pulp hero Nemuri Kyoshiro in a twelve films for the Daiei studio between 1963 and his 1969 death fro...

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

DVR Diary: TAMANGO (1958)

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O n one hand, John Berry's Tamango feels like a film about a decade ahead of its time in its blunt treatment of slavery and resistanc...

Thursday, July 26, 2018

FROM THE ORIENT WITH FURY (Agente 077 dall'oriente con furore, 1965)

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O vershadowed by the nation's spaghetti westerns, Italian spy films of the 1960s are seen as poor knockoffs of the James Bond franchis...

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