(“One-Armed King Boxer Smashes Blood-Splasher”)Production: Hong Kong, 1976Director: Jimmy Wang YuUS release title: Master Of The Flying GuillotineCategory: Martial ArtsWang Yu’s masterpiece, a stone classic of psychedelic kung-fu. Featuring the return of his “One-Armed Boxer” character, this is another revenge- and tournament-based movie with a wild array of exotic fighters. Continue Reading

(“The Cannibals”)Production: Portugal, 1988Director: Manoel de OliveiraCategory: Cannibal/Fairy-TaleA grotesque, operatic 18th century fable that depicts the wedding of a beautiful young woman to a viscount. All goes well until the wedding night, when the bride finds out that her new husband is a multiple amputee who has to unscrew all Continue Reading

(“Dragon And Tiger Wars”)Production: Hong Kong, 1970Director: Jimmy Wang YuEnglish release title: Chinese BoxerCategory: Martial ArtsWang Yu’s last film for the Shaw brothers, the self-scripted and self-directed Lung-Hu Dou (released in the US as The Hammer Of God), featured a then-unprecedented approach to unarmed fighting (as opposed to swordplay) as Continue Reading

Production: USA, 1968Director: David L. WeissCategory: DocumentaryWorld Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) had become America’s most famous anti-war protester and “draft dodger”. Ali refused induction into the army on the grounds that he was a black muslim and a pacifist, and therefore obliged to be a conscientious objector. Continue Reading

Production: USA, 1967Director: Andy WarholCategory: UndergroundA typical production of the Warhol Factory in the mid-’60s. With cast regulars including Taylor Mead, Viva and Ingrid Superstar, this slow-paced and overlong film features various situations, including some sexual action. A restaurant was hired out for the shoot, so that the participants could Continue Reading

Production: Hong Kong, 1983/88Producer: Tomas Tang Kaak-YanEnglish title: Cannibal MercenaryCategory: Vietnam/CannibalProbably the most violent gore movie to be associated with the Vietnam War genre. The film, which is an assemblage of footage from various source, concerns a band of Thai mercenaries sent into the jungle to rescue a woman from Continue Reading