by David F. Walker | Apr 2, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive, 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. 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...
by David F. Walker | Mar 17, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive, Reviews of a Former Film Critic
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...
by David F. Walker | Mar 16, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive, Film Review, FILM review, Reviews of a Former Film Critic
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...
by David F. Walker | Mar 14, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive, Film Review, FILM review, Reviews of a Former Film Critic
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...
by David F. Walker | May 15, 2019 | BAMF Film Review Archive, BLAXPLOITATION Archive, Film Review, News & Updates
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...
by David F. Walker | Jun 22, 2018 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive
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...