Be Careful How You Use It: The Story Of Hai Karate
The ad campaigns for cologne Hai Karate promised that it would drive women mad with desire, forcing users to become experts in self-defence.
Tag: 1970s
Shit Holidays
Think your holidays are disappointing? Be thankful that you are not on vacation with the characters in this collection of movies.
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The Myth Of Caligula
The ‘Ultimate Cut’ of Caligula claims to salvage a lost masterpiece, but instead feels like an insipid cover version of a classic film.
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A Brief Trawl Through British Smut 1970-79
The uniquely grotty world of the 1970s British softcore sex film is explored through its highlights and lowlights
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Just One More Thing… Columbo Comes To Blu-Ray
Columbo was the best TV detective show of the 1970s and remains consistently entertaining and intriguing even today.
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Britsploitation Trailers: The Final Conflict
More British cult film trailers from the golden age of UK horror, science fiction, arthouse and exploitation cinema.
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The Cat Girl: Britain’s Forgotten Super Hero
The Cat Girl was a British comic strip feline superhero long before The Leopard of Lime Street, but is little-known today.
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Pensioners Behaving Badly: The Aged Pleasures Of You’re Only Young Twice
The 1970s sitcom is not one of the lost classic British comedy shows of the era.
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The AGFA Archives: The Zodiac Killer And Another Son Of Sam
Our series of reviews of titles from the American Genre Film Archive opens with a dive into the incredible and strange world of 1970s true-crime inspired exploitation outsider cinema.
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Porque Te Vas – The Finest Moment Of 1970s Europop
The bouncy Spanish pop song by Jeanette that featured in the bleak film Cría Cuervos and became an unlikely international hit.
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The Witch Queen Of Ireland
Janet and Stewart Farrar appear on Irish TV to give viewers a Halloween frisson of the magickal in 1977.
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Ken Follett’s Amok – King of Legend
A shameless King Kong copycat novel from 1976.
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