Really Awful Movies: Ep 28 – RoboCop

Robocop features the incredible Peter Weller (who has since earned a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history) as the eponymous cyborg crime-fighting machine. Detroit was once a Midwestern economic powerhouse but went into precipitous decline and became crime-ridden (it’s yet to recover). Whether you blame Reagonomics or the endless succession of Democrat mayors […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 26 – The Warriors

“I’ll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a Popsicle.” The Warriors! Can you dig it? Indeed we can. Based on Sol Yurick’s book, which drew inspiration from Anabasis by Zenophon, a pupil of Socrates, Walter Hill’s cult classic is one long chase from the top to the bottom of the New […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 8 – Miami Connection

Miami Connection might very well be the worst film of all time. It definitely rivals The Room. The movie features a band of University of Central Florida orphans, led inexplicably by a Korean dojo master twenty years their senior, whose mandate for this unorthodox musical act is to “spread taekwondo awareness.” The band features not […]