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Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About
Spinegrinder The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About Author:Clive Davies video nasties! kung fu! giant brains! tatty gorilla suits! flying guillotines! yakuza! visible boom mics! dean shek! The Spinegrinder Movie Guide is an ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation & cult cinema, and how that has interacted with the mainstream. Arnold Schwarzenegger went from... more » being HERCULES IN NEW YORK to Governor of the wealthiest U.S. State! Ronald Reagan once starred alongside Bozo the Chimp before he became the ruler of the free world. Millions flock to see the blockbuster likes of THE AVENGERS and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, sophisticated and ridiculously expensive upgrades of low-budget movies and serials once considered strictly for comic-reading kids. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON stormed the arthouses and KILL BILL was an unlikley smash around the world, but neither improved on more obscure yet amazing Hong Kong and Taiwanese wuxia and kung fu movies, and who would settle for dull Uma Thurman when you could have Meiko Kaji as LADY SNOWBLOOD? The time is ripe for more people to learn about the rich, imaginative, inspiring, and occasionally hilarious world of movies that is in today's multi-media plugged-in environment, just a click or two away.« less