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Barbarian Queen was a 1985 sword-and-Sandal fantasy action film directed by Héctor Olivera, written by Howard R. Cohen and produced by B-movie king Roger Corman as part of his nine picture deal that included shooting several films in Don Torcuato, Argentina. The cast includes six foot bombshell Lana Clarkson, actress turned writer/director Katt Shea, Frank Zagarino, Dawn Dunlap, Armando Bó's son…
Wanna-Be 's is a 1986 action sports sci-fi wrestling anime OVA directed by Yasuo Hasegawa and written by Toshimichi Suzuki. It features character design work done by manga artist Ken'ichi Sonoda and Yoshiharu Shimizu served as animation director. The voice cast features Eriko Hara, Miki Takahashi, Shūichi Ikeda, Akio Nojima, Eiko Yamada and Urara Takano. It also had metal music by Japanese band…
Pink Force Commando (Hong fen you xia, Ninja Fighters, Pink Force) is an action adventure martial arts Hong Kong film directed by Kevin Chu (Chu Yen-ping). It stars Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Chung-You Chang, Yang Hui-Shan, Chun-Chun Hsu and Hao-Yi Liu. It is sometimes considered to be a semi-sequel to Golden Queen's Commando (1982) by the same producer and crew. It's also a film that collects a…
Slayers Excellent is a comedy fantasy anime OVA series directed by Hiroshi Watanabe and written by Keiko Watanabe, basing his scripts on light novels by Hajime Kanzaka. The cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Maria Kawamura, Sho Hayami, Aya Hisakawa and Kumiko Watanabe. Released from October 25th 1998 to March 25th 1999, it was the very last Slayers prequel series during this time and it was one of…
The Lost Empire is a 1984 fantasy action adventure movie written and directed by Jim Wynorski. The film stars Melanie Vincz, Raven De La Croix, Angela Aames, Paul Coufos and Angus Scrimm. Wynorski is kind of a legendary B-movie director now with over a hundred films to his credit but he started writing films like Sorceress (1982) and Screwballs (1983). However, he wanted to move on to directing…
Slayers Gorgeous is a comedy fantasy anime film directed by Hiroshi Watanabe and written by Hajime Kanzaka. The cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Maria Kawamura, Akira Kamiya, Kyoko Hikami and Junpei Takiguchi. Released on August 1st, 1998, on a double feature with Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness, it was the very last Slayers prequel feature film to be released…
Knights is a 1993 post-apocalyptic action sci-fi martial arts movie written and directed by Albert Pyun, starring kickboxer Kathy Long, Kris Kristofferson, Scott Paulin, Gary Daniels and Lance Henriksen. Shot in Utah and distributed by Paramount straight to the home video market, the film is now considered to be one of the most likable Pyun movies and one of the movies that best exemplify his…
Slayers Special (also known as Slayers: Dragon Slave, Slayers: Explosion Array and Slayers: The Book of Spells) is a comedy fantasy OVA series directed by Hiroshi Watanabe and written by Hajime Kanzaka. The series was released from 1996 to 1997 and consists of three self-conclusive stories featuring Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent, these stories are adaptations of the light novel series of the…
The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 action western movie directed by Sam Raimi and written by Simon Moore (with contributions by Joss Whedon). It stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Originally written by Moore in 1992 as a tribute to earlier spaghetti westerns but with a female protagonist, Sharon Stone decided Sam Raimi should be the director after watching…
Slayers Great is a 1997 fantasy anime movie directed by Hiroshi Watanabe and Kunihiko Yuyama. It was written by the creator of Slayers himself Hajime Kanzaka. The cast features the great Megumi Hayashibara, Maria Kawamura, Kikuko Inoue, Takehito Koyasu and Seizô Katô. Great was the third theatrical Slayers film and was released on august 2nd, 1997. In this adventure, Lina and Naga meet and help a…
