Three years after Herbie Rides Again, the third movie of the franchise featuring the little Volkswagen who could takes Herbie overseas to reconnect with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) and drive in a race from Paris to Monte Carlo. The race isn’t the only plot of the film, however.
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Of all the classic Universal monsters, the Gill-man, also known simply as the Creature, was always my favorite. The plot of Creature from the Black Lagoon is pretty boilerplate with a group of scientists heading up the Amazon River looking the remainder of a fossilized skeleton of a fish man. Little do they know one of these creatures still exists. The setup works so well it would be copied by any number of horror movies for decades to come.
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If you didn’t love Piper Perabo before, you will after watching Covert Affairs. The new Blu-ray collection includes all 75 episodes from the show’s five season run which saw the maturation of Annie Walker (Perabo) from CIA trainee to top agent.
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One of 10 films produced by Roger Corman in Argentina in the 1980s, The Warrior and the Sorceress is a thinly-veiled retelling of Yojimbo on an alien world (featuring the most modest of fantasy or sci-fi trappings). More sword than sorcery, the story opens with Kain (David Carradine), a former holy warrior turned mercenary, wandering into the village of Yamatar where the most precious resource is a well fought over by two warring gangs.
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Akira Kurosawa knew how to tell stories that last. The simple story of a ronin (Toshirō Mifune) wandering into a small town and causing chaos to solve a larger problem has been remade, adapted, and inspired dozens (if not hundreds) of projects over the years from spaghetti westerns to samurai science fiction. My favorite, however, has always been Stan Sakai‘s Usagi Yojimbo which owes much to Kurosawa’s tale.
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