Women in Cages

A cockfight sets the tone and tips off its location: exploitation country, actually the Philippines where lots of this crap was filmed because it was cheap and offered an exotic backdrop. Women in Cages isn’t a metaphor for some underground art-house feminist production. It’s antithetical to that in every possible way, but we’ll give it this much: theContinue reading “Women in Cages”

Five Shaolin Masters

Curse those lousy Manchus. Always burning down Shaolin temples and causing havoc. When will they ever learn? Five Shaolin Masters follows the very game efforts by surviving members of the temple ambush to mobilize a fighting force, rout out likely traitors to the cause and take out as many Manchu fighters as humanly (or inhumanly) possible. MonkContinue reading “Five Shaolin Masters”