Three Cylinder Stardrive

This week we review another Hong Kong movie pre-British-handover.  It's a high kicking action romance with some golden moments that are sure to make you laugh at the absurdity of it all.  Enjoy!

We finally found another retro pilot to watch, and it's a good one.  Back in 1990, the same year that the John Wesley Shipp version of "The Flash" aired on CBS (which only went for one season), "Super Force" hit the television screen, starring several forgettable actors, but strangely starring G. Gordon Liddy as the villain... and he's playing a guy with a Japanese name who wears kimonos but is totally G. Gordon Liddy.  Liddy went to jail for the Watergate scandal, worked under J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI, and is on record as being able to fire a pistol faster than most people can sneeze.  Oh yeah, it also featured Lou Ferrigno and a couple of the WWF's wrestling greats.

This week we have a real treat!  We watched a convoluted kung fu movie set in Tokyo, aptly named "Tokyo Raiders".  The film was directed by a guy named Jingle Ma (no kidding) in 2000, but the actors all speak Chinese (mostly).  It has more plot twists than a soap opera and is quite unintentionally funny.  We brought along our guest today, one Patrick Harrington, who has been helping us to find only the most delectable bad movies to sit through.  Patrick has been to Japan several times, and understands the culture quite well, so we brought him along to clue us in on some of the stuff we didn't understand... also he has great stories!  

Who knew you could find movies on a public library app?  Well, you can.  If you do, you might check out this silly little vehicle that is actually funnier than it sounds.  Yeah, it's no "Silent But Deadly", but it surprised us.  It's actually watchable, and quite funny in parts.  Listen for our full review.

Once in a while we run across a movie with seemingly bad production value (what are we kidding... that's all the movies we watch) but once is a while we find a gem.  "Silent But Deadly" by Paul Dale is probably the funniest amateur film we've ever seen.  It's only 62 minutes long including the after credits scenes (and you SHOULD watch them), and I'll say we laughed so hard for the 62 minutes we were both nearly hoarse from the belly laughs that this little film generates.  You'll love it, too!

We reviewed "Goatsucker", a horrible little film about a group of people who go on a hike in the woods and get murdered one by one by a chupacabra...and some of them by each other.  It's pretty bad, but isn't that what we're here for?

Have you ever sat in the stands at an arena and watched giant robots fight?  Have you ever wished you could be the best at piloting robots?  Have you ever looked at another robot pilot and thought: "Gee, I could probably spend the rest of my life with them."?  Then 1989's Robot Jox is for you.  Tune in to this episode as we break down this crappy classic.

This week we dive into the choppy waters of Italian knock-off films.  We love Bond films, so why not watch a crappy version from 1967?  No, it's not Sean Connery, because that's the year he quit being Bond.  The Italians probably tried to get Sean, but they got the next best thing... his ACTUAL brother Neil!  And the actual Moneypenny and Blofeld joined the cast.  Tune in as we talk about it in all it's late 60's campy glory.

On this episode, we talk about all the stuff we are watching right now... and there's some good stuff to watch!  We discuss the Alan Tudyk show "Resident Alien", "Clarice" and many other shows available right now to binge.  If you need more stuff to watch, tune in to the show to find out what's out there.

This week we run down the amazingly funny "Shadow of the Lotus", a $1.99 Amazon rental that is not only unintentionally funny, but also a testament to one Canadian film maker's ability to pretty much do everything behind the camera including animate the credits with anime characters that look somewhat like their live-action counterparts.  So settle in and listen to the highlights as we break down this Chinatown Vancouver action thriller starring two women who are now not really acting anymore.  One runs a casting agency and the other is... well... looking for work.