Retro Movie Review Archives

RETRO MOVIE OF THE MONTH – Masamune Shirow’s Dominion: TANK POLICE (1988)

Sam HaiNe / 29th January 2024

Dominion (ドミニオン, Dominion) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. Set in the fictional city of Newport, […]

Sam HaiNe / 31st August 2023

Shin Masked Rider (2023) Back from the ether and here on the nostalgia streets with another bundle of retro

Sam HaiNe / 13th August 2022

Retro Movie of the Month goes to 1988’s HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN. MadMax’s bastard child. A future where human birth

Sam HaiNe / 15th June 2022

USA’s UP ALL NIGHT episode “Toxic Avenger” Look at what I found. Looks like I’ve found an entire episode of

Sam HaiNe / 5th April 2022

Babylon (1980) directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia), and shot by two-time Academy Award

Sam HaiNe / 31st January 2022

ABOVE THE RIM (1994) The last film in Barry Michael Cooper’s Harlem trilogy Above the Rim (94) was

Back in 1982, director Ridley Scott dropped the audience into the then-future world of 2019 Los Angeles. It’s a seedy

Sam HaiNe / 2nd October 2021

Retro Movie Review: Splendor (1990) Greg Araki was a key contributor to the buzzing New Queer Cinema movement of the

Sam HaiNe / 28th August 2021

This movie is painfully entertaining. The basic formula for cheesy 90’s cinema; if you didn’t see it in a matinee

In recent years, I’ve seen a small backlash against the character Ferris Bueller. One sometimes hears the trite, overused buzzwords

Sam HaiNe / 12th August 2020

What makes a film art? Is it subtext? The collage of mediums blanketed onto film with music and mood layering

Sam HaiNe / 26th May 2020

Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) This will probably be the most serious movie I’ve ever viewed and reviewed for your