I watched this movie last night and was pleasantly surprised. I had never even heard of it before seeing it on the list of available to watch online at Netflix.

It is based on the true story of Martin McGartland who was caught between the IRA and the British special units in the 80s and 90s. Ben Kingsley is good as the British agent who manipulates Martin but the guy who played Martin, Jim Sturgess is really really good.

My local Hollywood Video store is going out of business and is selling all of their stock. I walked out of the store with 20 movies for 20 bucks! SWEET!!! I've already had a Bigfoot/Sasquatch mini marathon, (I found three b rate horror flicks on the smelly brute) and a mini FPW festival with Pelts and Midnight Mass.

I've yet to do a Exorcist marathon (I own the first but picked up the second and third) but it'll be coming soon.

I also found:
Loaded Weapon
Duets
Mystery Alaska
Dead Bang

and a whole host of others.

I don't know if all the stores are closing, but it might be worth your time to see if any are going under in your neighborhood.

I'm not sure I had ever seen this before last night. I used to watch a martial arts theatre type of show on saturday mornings and I don't thinl I could name any of them by their title so it is a possible I had seen it before. Anyway, it is definitely better than the average chopsoki film. It has a decent plot and the fighting wasn't too outrageous but the real reason it stood out is Sonny Chiba as Terry Sugury. He is a total bad ass with his own sense of right and wrong. I believe that FPW is a fan and I could certainly see elements of RJ in Terry.

i noticed on his facebook page that fpw watches this show, which is cool because my wife and i watch it every week. in fact, it's the only sitcom we actually watch other than how i met your mother. if you haven't watch this show, i highly recommend it. i laugh my arse off every episode!

I went to the link on the newsletter. The do not click link...
The horror! I cannot grind the memory of what I saw there off the gray matter! Why, Dr Wilson? Why???? I'd hate to browse your computer's history after seeing this.


Oh, well. Atleast I was warned.

Yesterday I bought anthology "He Is Legend", and one of stories was "Recalled" by FPW!

It seems sequel of The Distributor by Richard Matheson.

One question but possibility for spoiler
[SPOILER]

At the ending, one man appeared in front of Theodor Gordon.

Is he..... Jack? Is this one of Repairman Jack stories?
[/SPOILER]I've never heard about this before. But it was really cool. I really liked it.

Hope this isn't a spoiler question, but does anybody know what sword was used to make the Gaijin Masamune from Black Wind and By the Sword?

We know it was given to Masamune by Glaeken in the 14th century "to refashion his heavy dirk into a kodachi - a kind of short sword". In 1941, the Gaijin Masamune is in the possession of Matsuo Okumo.

We also know it can't be Glaeken's sword from The Keep since he uses it to "kill" Ra... the Adversary in Romania in 1941.

Can someone shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance.

Just saw a clear pic and he is NOT pretty (which is a good thing). The make-up almost makes my stomach churn. This movie better NOT suck.

Just finished reading Legacies - now my favorite RJ novel (I've read them out of order). It's tied with Harbingers for my number one RJ book. The book has such much action (love the part in his booby-trapped house).

2 things:
1. Where there any connections to the other books (beside Milkdud (mentioned in Criss Cross) and Yoshio (his brother was in By The Sword))?

2. Did anyone see the South Park reference on pg 416 (paperback) when Jack kills the bad guy named Kenny and one of the bad guys says something: "Kenny! Oh christ, he killed Kenny!"

Anyway, loved the book. Can't wait to start Conspiracies

William Dafoe is in it. Possibly the worst movie ever made. I never heard of it and watched it on Netflix. It is like a badly made, artsy style, independent film, with flashes of snuff, torture porn. And I don't think it had anything to do with the Antichrist.

How do some of these movies get made?