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THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE MOVIE REVIEW “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. This is my dream, this is my nightmare. Crawling, slighter, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving.”- Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. What if that straight razor […]

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2023 – ONE-PERCENTER Fantastic Fest has become known not only for weird and disturbing films, completely surreal foreign comedies, and insane horror, but for some of the most over-the-top great action as well. One-Percenter is one of this year’s entries in the latter category and it sure doesn’t hurt when Tak Sakaguchi […]

COBRA KAI SEASON 5 REVIEW Crane Kicks are striking first and showing no mercy in the YouTube turned Netflix 80’s throwback Lega-sequel series sensation Cobra Kai Season 5. After re-aggravating and old injury, Miguel is on a quest to find his estranged father in the mean streets of Mexico. It’ll take the father and son […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 302: WRIGHT SHOULD KNOW MARTIAL ARTS BY OSMOSIS Chris and Wright take on a trio of major martial arts movies, an early 2000s Japanese indie that was bloody entertaining as hell, a film that explains why they didn’t keep going through all the Universal monsters after Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the movie that […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 299: NOT QUITE 300 Chris and Wright narrowly miss doing episode 300 but that’s ok, because they’ve got an amazing stack of titles to look at. From the best of the best, like the 4k release of those American hikers getting all furry in London, to the worst of the worst with […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 295: GHOLSON: AFTERLIFE Chris and John take on a lot of big releases this week and let you know which are worth adding to your collection. From the biggest sci-fi film in years, to a under-the-radar Netflix animated movie. A reconsideration of a spy movie leads to not so different results (if […]

NIGHTSHOOTERS MOVIE REVIEW When a small film crew doing a guerrilla night shoot of a trashy action horror movie in a building scheduled for demolition accidentally witness a gangland murder, they have to bring all their skills to play in order to survive the night against the criminals out for their blood. Fortunately for them, […]

THE LAST MERCENARY MOVIE When it comes to legends of the action genre, only one French speaker comes to mind in American cinema: Jean-Claude Van Damme. The man’s high kicks and splits are the stuff of legend, almost as much so as his thick accent. Just one of the pluses to this new film is […]