The external drive on which I store my gazillion image files is showing all the signs of immanent failure. Until its replacement arrives from Amazon, I’m going to leave it unplugged and dormant, which means that we’re going to have a wee vacation here at Pulp of the Day until next week or later. It’s [...]
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In honor of a great man and his birthday we present the speech they should’ve told you about in school. Oh yes, I say it plain: this is “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence.” “And we are now … Continue reading →
As long time readers know, I love Indian special effects extravaganzas, movies starring Shahrukh Khan, and thinly veiled retellings of the Ramayana, so yes, I was really looking forward to Ra.One (2011). It isn’t quite what I was expecting, thoug…
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One of the most notorious failings of serial features is the “recap cheat.” Each new chapter begins with the last few seconds of footage from the last one, to refresh the audience’s memory of what was going on when we got cliffhung. The cheat occurs when the [...]
There is a very strange character named Gromozeka, who is a six-armed cyborg (or possibly alien) on roller skates. Obviously meant as comic relief, Gromozeka is fairly bipolar and persnickety, and he’s also an archaeologist. Yep.
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Legend of the Twin Dragon (2007) (aka Wing Chun) After being impressed with Yuen Biao’s return to old school martial arts in the scenes from Real Kung Fu that I watched, I was able to find this movie using various legal means and watched it yeste…
Iron Fist (1995) (aka Fist of Power) Iron Fist is a TV series from Hong Kong that has been edited into a three-hour film, much like Legend of the Twin Dragon, which I watched last week. However, whereas the latter was pretty focused and coherent in the…
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While the Good Doctor is waging his war against crap cinema on the surface, descending upon the fields of genre films with his horse blade in hand and hacking down whatever stands in his path, to the end of which he may exalt the wheat of the genre in…
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Though Senator Robert Fraser tells Captain Nemo that he can’t possibly stay in his underwater city of Templemere because of pressing government business topside involving European arms sales, it’s safe…
And for no good reason, either, except that I’ve had nothing to say. And even that’s not true; I’ve been quite active on Twitter, thank you very much. In fact, I’ve found that some of the events and thoughts which would have made a blog post only after waffling endlessly to make it long [...]
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