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Throw Down: SPL Kill Zone (2005)

Throw Down: SPL Kill Zone (2005)

Starting out by directing low budget horror and Category III exploitation films, Wilson Yip made a name for himself in '90s Hong Kong with breakout hits like Bio-Zombie, a Dawn of the Dead influenced zombie film taking place in a claustrophobic Hong Kong mall, and Bullets Over Summer, a

Longlegs: Something Underneath

Longlegs: Something Underneath

It burrows beneath your skin. A permeating, embedded unease that scrapes and scratches as it worms its way deeper within. Something is wrong, a natural order disrupted, the fabric of the air cut with an inky black presence that exists in an impossible periphery; always there but never perceived. The

Throw Down: Parole Violators (1994)

Throw Down: Parole Violators (1994)

This week on Throw Down, Jack and Vaughn open Pandora's box - the world of 90s SOV B-movie action, this time featuring Patrick G. Donahue's maniacal Parole Violators. The host of a vigilante public access television series is desperate to keep his program on air, putting

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

“I am the world’s greatest assassin” said in a sincere, hushed whisper by a man torn between his cartoonishly adoring family and his violent, seedy underworld business really only makes sense as an earnest line of dialogue when it’s been written by a person who also named his

The Best Films of 2024 (So Far), And What To Look Forward To

The Best Films of 2024 (So Far), And What To Look Forward To

Halfway through 2024, it's time to take a look at the year so far and what we still have left to look forward to. 2024 has already proven to be full of beautiful, brilliant cinema; haunting existential terror, energetic romantic thrills, high octane action, live action Looney Tunes

Throw Down: Born to Fight (2004)

Throw Down: Born to Fight (2004)

Hot off the international success of Ong-Bak (2003), stunt choreographer and Thai action veteran Panna Rittikrai set out to make another no holds barred stunt showcase, featuring a cast of his Muay Thai Stunt team and a group of Thai national athletes. A loose remake of his debut film, Born

The Bikeriders: Infinite Impermanence

The Bikeriders: Infinite Impermanence

The thing is, you got to keep movin’. - Warren Oates in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the great American movies, a story of the relationship between people and the machines that take them across the endless horizon. A true road movie, one that