Lazyboots

its a brutal time for young men. Living up to the famous names you were given. Always have to roam around in the sewer. Your teacher is a literal rat. Can’t even say cowabunga anymore.

Reminder again for Chicago-area folks that Doc Films are screening Edward Yang's The Terrorizers on 35mm tonight and tomorrow.

In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.

Remember when Michael Wong ran over Charlie Chaplin

Choujin Sentai Jetman (1991)
Episode 50

monday comin'

CLEARCUT (Bugajski, 1991)

Kamen Rider Stronger (1975)
Episode 9

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (1975)
Episode 53

@gcdb.bsky.social Originally released in Hong Kong as Shaolin Prince

A reminder that Akira Kurosawa once visited the set of Kindergarten Cop

Watching #MonsterZero on #Svengoolie

Lady Battle Cop (1990)

I'm doing a commentary track for the gonzo Wuxia splatterfest Portrait in Crystal for Imprint Films!

Haven't been online much lately because I've been hammering away at the audio commentary for Sex Beyond the Grave in which I get into all the mysticism and spiritualism, obscure cultural references, spooky Hong Kong history, and the movie's surprisingly complicated production.

Great book

Buster Keaton's Seven Chances was released 100 years ago today, on March 15, 1925

Color photo of Kei Fujiwara standing in a subway station. She's wearing sunglasses, a dark coat, and a prop robot hand over her real hand.

Actress/director Kei Fujiwara - BOTD in 1957

A group of monsters from the game The Last Armageddon

The boss in the first level of R-Type: a dismembered monster with a tail hovering in space.

A worker holding a drilling machine turns round in fright at the sight of a stone monster.

Another boss from R-Type: a shapeless mass from which several organic pipes emerge

Some of the sculptures made by Yūsuke Takayanagi / 高柳祐介 (Zeiram 2, Maten Densetsu, N.O.B. Neo Organic Bioform) for MSX Fan in 1988.

Into the Fire

Tough guy

#Watched Into the Fire (1989) - Subway Cinema’s Sundays on Fire, on 35mm

Goddamn, that was electric. I love Chin Siu-Ho, but I’ve never seen him like this before, a no-hope punk caught in a desperate situation with Collin Chou and hunted by gangsters and cops alike as HK melted down post-Tiananmen.

Digital painting of Jim Varney from Ernest Scared Stupid (John Cherry, 1991) distorted like a creature from Hell. He's got multiple heads like the hydra. I was sort of going for a George H.W. Bush era horror poster.

The first LETHAL WEAPON: A somewhat dark cop thriller about the sins of the Vietnam War where Riggs is portrayed as a lonely, dangerously unstable man.

The LETHAL WEAPON sequels: Oh Riggs and Murtaugh, you wacky goofballs, causing property damage and killing people.

Spies (1928)
Directed by Fritz Lang

Today, I learned there was a Hong Kong sports movie called VICTORY (1994), about a woman's volleyball that has a theme song that starts exactly like Mortal Kombat's Techno Syndrome theme:

They said it would never happen.

Hundreds of Beavers hits $1,000,000 in worldwide Box Office.

Long live indie cinema! $150,000 budget and a dream.

And thank you to the fans who got us here.

The Hong Kong Film Archive have a neat series of comedy double bills coming up which pair remakes with the originals. But the originals, films from the '50s/'60s pre-studio era which have been neglected forever, are 2K scans or even 4K restorations. www.filmarchive.gov.hk/en/web/hkfa/...