I don't know why, but this movie really makes me hungry for some vermicelli. I wonder why that is... It's the closing days of World War I. The Germans have mostly pulled out of the Argonne Forest as American and French forces wage the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. With the hasty German withdrawal, British intelligence discovers an … Continue reading Trench 11 (2017)
Oh yeah, it's time for some highly watchable Chinese propaganda! If you didn't immediately cheer with delight, you may want to go read something else, because highly watchable propaganda is exactly what Operation Red Sea is, and while it's propaganda...it's also pretty awesome. The film starts with an introduction of the majority of your main … Continue reading Operation Red Sea (2018)
This movie exists like a weird hybrid of the horror in the Outpost series and occasionally the camp of the film Zone Troopers. More so the Outpost series, but who am I to complain about a Nazisploitation horror movie? It's 1944. D-Day has arrived, and the Allied forces are storming the beaches of Normandy. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Overlord (2018)
Yes, that's a Japanese movie poster. But this is a North Korean movie. Pulgasari is getting more and more attention as the years go by. Instead of it just being me ranting about it to whoever the heck will listen, even John Oliver is referencing it in his weekly monologues on HBO. Hell, the movie … Continue reading Pulgasari (1985)
This is yet another film with a bunch of names: Warbus 2, The Last Warbus, Warbus Commando, Afganistan Connection, and Afghanistan: The Last Warbus are all titles it went under. Good luck finding it if you seek it out. In 1986, the "classic" Italian 'Namsploitation action film Warbus thundered onto the silver screen in the … Continue reading Warbus 2 (1989)
The United States and the Soviet Union have engaged in a nuclear exchange, devastating the first lines of defense for both nations. In an attempt to prevent further exchange on population centers, the two world powers decide instead to pit their best soldiers in a one-on-one contest to see who is top dog. In the … Continue reading The Final Sanction (1990)
Italy does it again with another late '80s 'Namsploitation film, this time about mercenaries with a grudge against a drug lord who is running guns out of Cambodia with the help of the North Vietnamese. Filmed entirely in the Philippines, this movie gets things like uniforms and ammunition counts horribly wrong, but the explosions are … Continue reading Just a Damned Soldier (1988)
Ah, 'Namsploitation. Where every gun has infinite bullets, every weapon is always set to rock and roll, and everyone fires from the hip. Also, shit explodes. From the fiery ashes of the Viet Nam comes classic films about heroism in a shithouse jungle hotbox, where Charlie hides behind every tree, and discipline has broken down … Continue reading Warbus (1985)
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