BAMF Film Review Archive
Reviews of a Former Film Critic – Kinji Fukasaku’s STREET MOBSTER
A long time ago I was a film critic. This is a collection of my best reviews, movies I loved, and some that I hated. STREET MOBSTER (originally reviewed some time in 2001) It wasn’t until near the end of his life and career that Japanese filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku really came to the attention of…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Film Review Archive – THE 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN
REVIEWS OF A FORMER FILM CRITIC – A long time ago I was a film critic. This is a collection of my best reviews, movies I loved, and some that I hated. 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN If you are a true fan of martial arts flicks, then you no-doubt have seen this film in at…
Read MoreReviews of a Former Film Critic – ACE IN THE HOLE
REVIEWS OF A FORMER FILM CRITIC – A long time ago I was a film critic. This is a collection of my best reviews, movies I loved, and some that I hated. ACE IN THE HOLE (original reviewed July 2007) By the time he made 1951’s Ace in the Hole director Billy Wilder had already…
Read MoreReviews of a Former Film Critic – 12 YEARS A SLAVE
REVIEWS OF A FORMER FILM CRITIC – A long time ago I was a film critic. This is a collection of my best reviews, movies I loved, and some that I hated. 12 YEARS A SLAVE (originally reviewed December 2013) Watching director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, it was impossible to keep my mind…
Read MoreTHE LANDLORD – blu-ray review
THE LANDLORD 1970 director: Hal Ashby; starring: Beau Bridges, Diana Sands, Lou Gossett, Jr., Pearl Bailey, Marki Bey, Lee Grant Before the blaxploitation revolution kicked off with an explosion in 1971, there were films in the late 1960s and 1970 that helped to lay the groundwork for what was about to come. While many of…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Film Review Archive – Peter Watkins’s PRIVILEGE
It was quite by accident that I first “discovered” filmmaker Peter Watkins several years ago, when his 1971 film Punishment Park was released on DVD. Punishment Park was an amazing film, the likes of which I had never quite seen, and served as a wonderful introduction to the work of Watkins. As a lover of…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Film Review Archive – ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong was responsible for producing some of the greatest Wushu (martial arts) films of all time. In the 1970s kung fu flicks flooded American drive-in theaters and grindhouses, and some of the most memorable films came courtesy of Shaw Brothers. But the style and genre of film most…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Film Review Archive – WHITE DOG
If there was ever a film I thought would never see the light of day on home video, it would have to be director Sam Fuller’s White Dog. Regarded by many as one of the most controversial films of all time—unwarranted hyperbolic exaggeration if there ever was any—White Dog languished, practically unreleased since its production…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Film Review Archive – THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Over four decades ago, Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers was considered one of the most provocative, politically incendiary movies of its time. The Black Panther Party used it as a training film, the French government banned it, and lovers of cinema revered it as a masterpiece. In 2003, the Pentagon hosted a…
Read MoreBadAzz MoFo’s Blaxploitation Archive – NI**ER LOVER (a.k.a. The Bad Bunch,Tom, The Brothers)
NIGGER LOVER (a.k.a. The Bad Bunch,Tom, The Brothers) 1973 director: Greydon Clark; starring: Greydon Clark, Tom Johnigarn, Aldo Ray, Jock Mahoney More than twenty years had passed since I watched director Greydon Clark’s NIGGER LOVER, and written my scathing review. This was one of the earliest reviews I wrote, and I was culling through my…
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