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BMFcast 577 – Tai Chi Master – Pole-tron
Tai-Chi Master (1993) returns Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh to the show, with Jet Li and Siu-Ho Chin along for the ride. Directed by the legendary Woo-Ping Yuen, it’s a wire-fu tale of two young monks who get kicked out of their monastery for being too good at kung fu. They eventually end up on opposing sides of a revolution. The story isn’t the point, though. It’s all about the amazing fight scenes. And we can tell you that these scenes deliver. Is it enough to get the coveted 5-jox award?
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BMFcast Extra 209 – Underwater
Underwater (2020) is a deep sea monster movie that, while sometimes silly, mostly does everything right. It’s like Leviathan if Leviathan was good!
This episode was previously premium Patreon content which originally posted on January 22nd, 2021.
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BMFcast 574 – Runaway – The Robot Cops
Runaway (1984) is the Tom Selleck vs spider robots and Gene Simmons movie you probably saw on HBO at some point. In the distant future of 1991, can a cop for robots and his new partner solve a murder mystery involving malfunctioning house bots and self-guided bullets? It’s a Michael Crichton movie, so you know technology is probably a bad thing. But did we decide this movie a good thing? One way to find out!
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BMFcast 573 – Terror Squad – Hairrorist
Terror Squad (1987) brings us and a group of Libyans to 1980s Kokomo, Indiana, where an attempt to blow up a nuclear power plant leads to one of the longest car chase sequences we’ve ever witnessed. Eventually it settles into a hostage negotiation thing. Can Chuck Connors talk these bad guys down? Will that bus ever arrive? All these questions and more are answered this episode!
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BMFcast 572 – Return to Savage Beach – Maximum Strainage
Return to Savage Beach (1998) is our final trip into the Andy Sidaris universe. Julie Strain and the whole gang is back, including lots of guns, nudity, and exploding RC vehicles. Will it bring us back to the glory of past Sidaris movies? Time to take off your champagne outfit, hop in the hot tub and find out!
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BMFcast 571 – I’m Gonna Git You Sucka – Blaxploitation-ploitation
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) is Keenen Ivory Wayans’ ode to blaxploitation, and a fitting way to end this year’s Blaxploitation History Month. It’s packed with jokes, as well as BMFcast alums, with Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes and even Steve James making appearances. Do the jokes hit as hard as our favorite heroes? Only one way to find out if we’ve found gold or OG’d on chains.
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BMFCast 568 – Velvet Smooth – Kung Fu Prostitute
Velvet Smooth (1976) continues Blaxploitation History Month in the tale of a private eye called in to find out who’s responsible for ripping off King, a low-level criminal running the numbers game. Can Velvet and her girls crack the case, with thugs and cops on either side hassling her? Or will we witness another interminable donnybrook with 3rd-grade-level fight choreography? (Our money is on the latter.)
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BMFcast Extra 208 – Bats
Bats (1999) is one of the last “nature run amok” movies released to theaters before that genre became entirely relegated to the Syfy Channel. Bats makes the case that maybe that’s where they deserved to go.
This episode was previously premium Patreon content which originally posted on January 4th, 2021.
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BMFcast 567 – Ninja – Solid Snake Eyes
Ninja (2009) concludes NINJANUARY, as Scott Adkins plays Casey, an American orphan trained in the ways of the ninja. His biggest rival is kicked out of the dojo and becomes the world’s deadliest assassin. What happens when they both clash over the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, a chest full of powerful ninja stuff? Spoiler: it involves a lot of jump kicks, katanas and CG blood. Does this movie jump to the top of our ninja list or die dishonorably?
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BMFcast 566 – 3 Ninjas – The Ninja Trajectory
3 Ninjas (1992) continues NINJANUARY! Three American brothers (Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum) learn from their ninja grandfather the ways of being a true ninja. If you’re a millennial, you probably loved this. Last week, Nine Deaths of the Ninja lied to us about the amount of deaths. What untruths about ninjas are there to be uncovered this week? Stay tuned, but first…we feast!
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