Wheels of Fire is producer/director’s Cirio H. Santiago’s follow up to his Mad Max rip-off Stryker, it isn’t a sequel to that film, just another post-apocalyptic wasteland movie, only this time out water no longer seems a major concern, as this entry is more about simply maintaining power, whether that be from controlling the populace…
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Stryker (1983) – Review
Since George Miller unleashed Mad Max: Fury Road into cinemas last year I’ve been waiting for one thing, the inevitable rip-offs, for when Miller gave us Mad Max and Mad Max II (aka The Road Warrior) back in the late 70s and early 80s we were inundated with countless post-apocalyptic Mad Max rip-offs, but we…
Road Warrior Rip-Offs: Guns, Babes and Dwarves in a World Gone Mad
Movies about “the end of the world” have been around almost as long as cinema itself, evolving alongside the industry into a wide range of tones and styles. Broadly speaking, the genre splits into two dominant strands. On one side are the serious, introspective films, such as On the Beach, which focus on the emotional…
Roar (1981) – Review
Do you know what you get when you stick a family in a bungalow full of hundreds of big cats? Answer: You get a bloody big cat-astrophe.
Kill List (2011) – Review
Two hitmen walk into a church. Now that could be the set up to a terrible joke, or just a typical action scene from one of Hollywood’s many action movies, but when the priest in this film says, “Thank you” to the killer just before he takes a bullet to the brain, well that kind…