Part man, part machine, all cop.

There are some films that are extremely accessible and direct in terms of plot, bolstering action that is effective and gripping, while at the same time having depth and poignant messages. RoboCop is maybe the most famous of those, a film that became a pop-culture icon and went on to get 2 sequels (devoid of the richness of the first entry), a cartoon series, comics, video games, and soon a remake. This turn of…

In which MAN VERSUS ALIEN IN DEADLY STRUGGLE

We've become unimaginative these days when it comes to thinking about vanquishing unnatural threats. When faced with a problem such as a big monster rampaging around, the best solution people can come up with is to tell the air force to hit it using A-10 planes. And if that doesn't work, they figure they should just nuke it. Nobody ever wants to think about more creative slutions about these things anymore, like…

Turkish Star Wars is praised by some as a funny film, and bashed by others as a terrible film. However practically none of these people really got it (maybe the subtitles have something to do with it, but I only saw it in the original language so I can't comment on that).

To "get" TSW, you first have to keep in mind the status of cinema in Turkey in the '80s. I think it's safe to say that even at…

Holy Flame Of The Martial World might as well be the craziest martial arts flick ever filmed. Rather than being a more traditionally fist-and-foot inclined martial arts film, HFOTMW is more about flying in the air, using swords and performing magic spells. The world of HFOTMW is absolutely insane. You get demons, ghosts, zombies, living tapestries, an (English-speaking!) western demon, super powered hermits, conspirators, monks, deadly traps, skeletons, temples, dungeons, secret magic techniques, and the list goes on and on.…