1987’s Masters of the Universe is one of those gloriously misguided Cannon Films productions that swings for the stars and lands somewhere behind a California strip mall. It’s a movie that dares to ask, “What if cosmic fantasy looked like a low-budget cop drama?” The result is a fascinating, baffling, occasionally entertaining mess that somehow…
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) – Review
Some films feel like they were carefully crafted. Others feel like they were assembled out of spare parts found behind a medieval-themed garage sale. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom proudly belongs to the second category, a scrappy, barely coherent artifact of the low-budget empire run by Roger Corman. It’s cheap, chaotic, and accidentally fascinating in…
The Ice Pirates (1984) – Review
In a galaxy where water is more valuable than gold, and fashion is stuck in a Renaissance festival, one man and his crew of space degenerates will steal ice, battle space herpes, and age 40 years in five minutes. I bring you The Ice Pirates.
Cleopatra (1970) – Review
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Osamu Tezuka’s Cleopatra is not your average historical epic. It’s also not your average anime. It’s… well, it’s what happens when the “God of Manga” watches Barbarella, chugs a vat of sake, and says, “Let’s do Ben-Hur, but horny and in space-time.”
A Thousand and One Nights (1969) – Review
When most people hear the name Osamu Tezuka, they think of wide-eyed robots (Astro Boy), jungle adventures (Kimba the White Lion), or whimsical medical dramas (Black Jack). But in 1969, Tezuka — the so-called “God of Manga” — shocked audiences with something very different: a psychedelic, erotic, and adult-oriented animated film called A Thousand and…