Please contribute to Philippines disaster relief
4DK not only loves Filipino cinema, but the Filipino people as well. Please help them out in this time of terrible crisis. Below are just a few of the organizations to which you can donate. DIRECT...
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Great moments in white people: Bollywood edition Part III
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Taiwan on and on
Co-hosting the Taiwan Noir podcast with Podcast on Fire’s Ken Brorsson has reawakened me to my deep and abiding affection for pants soiling-ly insane Taiwanese martial arts flicks. 4DK loves the...
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From the Lucha Diaries Vaults: La Invasion de los Muertos (Mexico, 1973)
[Yes, it’s true! The Lucha Diaries is a site dedicated entirely to reviewing classic Mexican wrestling films. If the below example ignites your curiosity, its welcoming maw awaits you.]The art of...
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Mistress of puppets
Most Cult TV fans probably only know Roberta Leigh as a footnote to the career of Gerry Anderson. It was Leigh, an author of children’s books, who came to Anderson’s fledgling production company with...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode 10: Thrilling Sword and Country of...
Bless Kenneth Brorsson's mohawked head for inviting me back to co-host the latest episode of his Taiwan Noir podcast. In this installment, we salute Taiwanese screen queen Elsa Yeung with a discussion...
View ArticleFighting Femmes, Fiends, and Fanatics Episode 13: The Iron Prosecutor
Fighting Femmes, Fiends and Fanatics, winner of the completely made up Bannister Award for competence in webcasting, is back! In this episode, series producer Steve Mayhem takes a fascinating look at...
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The Infernal Brains Podcast, Episode 16
Dry your tears, internet! The Infernal Brains Podcast has returned! Why Tars Tarkas and myself, after our long hiatus, chose to stray from the familiar and tackle the subject of movies with all animal...
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Operation Lipstick (Hong Kong, 1967)
The Shaw Brothers’ spy movies are almost a genre unto themselves, so distinctive is that studio’s house style. Though, paradoxically, part of that style involves how reliably these films serve up the...
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The Infernal Brains are all up in your Facebook
Have you been wanting to tell the Infernal Brains how much you like them, but have yet to find a way that's impersonal or noncommittal enough? Well, now your whims have been answered, because the blog...
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Have no fear, Bond is here
The 1967 film version of Casino Royale is unloved by many, yet, if you go by number of viewings alone, it stands as one of my all time favorites (seriously, it's well into the double digits). One of...
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Aussies in space!
The “space patrol” concept -- pretty much a redressing of the old “cops on the beat” format in sci-fi drag – seemed to be the strain of science fiction deemed most palatable during TV’s formative and...
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Ang Panday (Philippines, 1980)
Fernando Poe Jr. has hair that you could break a board on, each strand like a tiny, pomaded bicep. I could say that this is the reason for his god-like status in his home country -- but I have yet to...
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