We have been hard at work on a new issue, which will be Issue #11: The Cinema Wasteland Edition. This will be out by the upcoming Cinema Wasteland Convention. You can read more about that here... www.cinemawasteland.com That is a great place to gather new readers. Issue #11 will be much larger than the regular issues, approximately 10 to 30 pages.
I got an email from some guy claiming to be able to get this zine into "every major book outlet in the US". All bullshit sensors immediately go into high gear because no such place exists for fanzines anymore, but I opted to let this play out. I replied, with excitement, about how much I appreciated his help. He wrote back and asked for my phone number so we could discuss this. He called (from a blocked number) and informed me that his fee was one thousand dollars and that he knew it was a lot of money but if I wired him the money that day, Crimson Screens would be in "every major book outlet in the United States!" I said, "well shit, how can I pass that up? let me call my accountant. What's your number so I can call you back?" He has some excuses about being in and out of the office and how it would be easier to call me back when he had the time, "you know, time is money, I can't be waiting around for calls" (lol). So I said, "give me an hour or two to get this figured out and call me back and i'll the get the info on where to wire it to". That guy called 26 times! I was born at night, but not last night....
There is a lot of solid video product coming out in February, so we will have reviews of all of that, plus other things we have aquired since issue #10.
A few people have written and asked about placing adds. We will not be printing adds. There is too little space to use it by printing adds for bootleg DVD companies.
Issue #11 will have two new contributors.
More updates soon....
Showing posts with label action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label action. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, July 3, 2011
New issue of Crimson Screens.... Out Now!!!
Issue #7 of Crimson Screens is out now. It's a bit longer than the usual newsletter format and it is still free. So if you would like a copy, get me your address and you will receive one.
It is the action issue, with a lot of reviews and talk about 80's action icons like Reb Brown, Michael Dudikoff and Steve James.
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It is the action issue, with a lot of reviews and talk about 80's action icons like Reb Brown, Michael Dudikoff and Steve James.
crimsonscreens@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Action Jackson...
Lately, I have been revisiting a lot of my old favorite action movies. I have boxes of titles on VHS, lots of it purchased again on DVD. It's easy to sit around and be all nostalgic about the glory days of VHS and the epic amount of time that I spent discovering movies. I'd hate to be the type that sits around talking about how great the past was and how everything sucks now, but man, those were fun times.
Action Jackson was always a VHS favorite of mine. It's not as gritty or bloody as a lot of the action movies of the time. In fact, some of it is pretty polished. Fuck it though, it's a prime example of what we like here at Crimson Screens.
Action Jackson (Carl Weathers) has been demoted to sergeant because of his escapades as a policeman in Detroit. Now he has an easy desk job, given to him as a punishment for sending the lead bad guys (Craig T. Nelson- who always excells when he plays a shitbag) son to jail. Action Jackson doesn't really even seem to mind his new job. He stumbles onto a string of murders that tie in with the main bad guys business and thinks quickly spiral out of control.
Even though movie seems a bit polished, there is still a good amount of sleaze lurking beneath the surface. There is a subplot about hookers who are strung out on heroin, a dirty hotel owner, lots of fist fights and a great car chase, where pretty much everything around the car chase gets blown up or destroyed.
We eventually venture into the home of the Craig T. Nelson character and his butler is played by Nicholas Worth. Nicholas Worth! Don't Answer The Phone Nicholas Worth! It's odd to see him as a quiet, subdued butler here, but it works and he adds a little touch of creepiness to the movie.
Action Jackson was directed by Craig R. Baxley. "Who is that?", you ask. Well, look at this string of movies he directed... Action Jackson into I Come In Peace into Stone Cold. WTF?!?!?!?! That right there is a trifecta of solid action movies, all underrated. A friend and I always talk about the greatness of I Come In Peace and how it is a lost action classic, which it is, and how it has been forgotten by time. I wrote about Stone Cold earlier this month, it's gold too. It boggles the mind that a director could direct three solid action movies and not be mentioned at the same time as the "big names" of that time period. Fuck it though, you would be doing yourself a huge disservice by not checking out the movies mentioned in this post. Craig R. Baxley also was a stunt coordinator on the A-Team TV series. The A-Team was a great show, right? I think it was. I don't think I could ever sit down and watch an entire day of a season of the A-Team but it's great stuff four or five episodes at a time. I recently watched an episode that had a guest role from Yaphet Kotto. Nothing against the A-Team, which I love, but I had to stop watching after that episode and watch Truck Turner again. Yaphet Kotto is at his best in that movie.
Anyway, enough rambling, Action Jackson is a way above average action movie, filled with good acting, a great supporting cast and action scenes where no one is safe. Highly recommended!
Action Jackson was always a VHS favorite of mine. It's not as gritty or bloody as a lot of the action movies of the time. In fact, some of it is pretty polished. Fuck it though, it's a prime example of what we like here at Crimson Screens.
Action Jackson (Carl Weathers) has been demoted to sergeant because of his escapades as a policeman in Detroit. Now he has an easy desk job, given to him as a punishment for sending the lead bad guys (Craig T. Nelson- who always excells when he plays a shitbag) son to jail. Action Jackson doesn't really even seem to mind his new job. He stumbles onto a string of murders that tie in with the main bad guys business and thinks quickly spiral out of control.
Even though movie seems a bit polished, there is still a good amount of sleaze lurking beneath the surface. There is a subplot about hookers who are strung out on heroin, a dirty hotel owner, lots of fist fights and a great car chase, where pretty much everything around the car chase gets blown up or destroyed.
We eventually venture into the home of the Craig T. Nelson character and his butler is played by Nicholas Worth. Nicholas Worth! Don't Answer The Phone Nicholas Worth! It's odd to see him as a quiet, subdued butler here, but it works and he adds a little touch of creepiness to the movie.
Action Jackson was directed by Craig R. Baxley. "Who is that?", you ask. Well, look at this string of movies he directed... Action Jackson into I Come In Peace into Stone Cold. WTF?!?!?!?! That right there is a trifecta of solid action movies, all underrated. A friend and I always talk about the greatness of I Come In Peace and how it is a lost action classic, which it is, and how it has been forgotten by time. I wrote about Stone Cold earlier this month, it's gold too. It boggles the mind that a director could direct three solid action movies and not be mentioned at the same time as the "big names" of that time period. Fuck it though, you would be doing yourself a huge disservice by not checking out the movies mentioned in this post. Craig R. Baxley also was a stunt coordinator on the A-Team TV series. The A-Team was a great show, right? I think it was. I don't think I could ever sit down and watch an entire day of a season of the A-Team but it's great stuff four or five episodes at a time. I recently watched an episode that had a guest role from Yaphet Kotto. Nothing against the A-Team, which I love, but I had to stop watching after that episode and watch Truck Turner again. Yaphet Kotto is at his best in that movie.
Anyway, enough rambling, Action Jackson is a way above average action movie, filled with good acting, a great supporting cast and action scenes where no one is safe. Highly recommended!
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