Cinema Narcs

MOVIE – “Enter The Ninja” DIRECTOR – Menahem Golan WRITER – Dick Desmond (screenplay), Mike Stone (story) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Sho Kosugi was a professional ninja for most of the 1980’s. In addition to his turn as the villainous ninja in “Enter the Ninja,” he was the hero and star of “Revenge [...]

MOVIE – “Dead Heat” DIRECTOR – Mark Goldblatt WRITER – Terry Black SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Dead Heat feels a bit like “Lethal Weapon” with zombies, in that you have a pair of funny buddy cops who get into wacky misadventures. Even though neither Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) or Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) [...]

MOVIE - “21 Jump Street” DIRECTOR – Phil Lord, Chris Miller WRITER – Michael Bacall (screenplay and story), Jonah Hill (story) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Everyone knows Nick Offerman as the awesome Ron Swanson from “Parks and Recreation.”  If you don’t, you need to look up Ron Swanson on YouTube and thank me later.  [...]

MOVIE – “The Woman In Black” DIRECTOR – James Watkins WRITER – Jane Goldman (script), Susan Hill (novel) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW –Everyone knows Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter in the massively successful movie franchise. In the movies, Harry/Daniel’s father was played by a gentleman named Adrian Rawlings. In the 1989 version of [...]

MOVIE – “Chronicle” DIRECTOR – Josh Trank WRITER – Max Landis SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW –If the name Max Landis sounds familiar to you, then that’s because you’re a fan of Masters of Horror. He wrote the episode Deer Woman, which was directed by his father. His father? Why, he’s none other than [...]

MOVIE - “The Family” AKA “Violent City” DIRECTOR – Sergio Sollima WRITERS – Massimo De Rita, Dino Maiuri (story ); Gianfranco Calligarich, Sauro Scavolini, Sergio Sollima, and Lina Wertmuller (screenplay) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑This movie has been released multiple times in the United States alone.  In 1970, it was released as Violent City, [...]

MOVIE - “TheFoot Fist Way” DIRECTOR – Jody Hill WRITER – Jody Hill, Ben Best, and Danny McBride SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑The title of this movie, The Foot Fist Way, is a literal translation of the phrase tae kwon do from Korean into English.  Director Jody Hill is a third-degree black belt in [...]

MOVIE - “Bloodstone: Subspecies II” DIRECTOR – Ted Nicolaou WRITERS – Ted Nicolaou, Charles Band (idea) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW – Do I even need to give you any information for Melanie Shatner, who plays Rebecca Morgan?  I mean, her last name is SHATNER, so you know she’s got to be the daughter ofCanada’s most famous starship [...]

MOVIE - “Subspecies” DIRECTOR – Ted Nicolaou WRITERS – Jackson Barr, David Pabian, and Charles Band (idea) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW – The most notable feature of Subspecies is the beautiful filming location.  If it looks authentically Eastern European, that’s because it is.  Subspecies was the first American production to ever take place in Romania after the [...]

It’s the Van Damme lookalike from “Future War” versus Ator The Avenger in a battle of the MST3K action second-raters!