Category Archives: Yakmala!
Tread Perilously — Tagteam
Tread Perilously’s Failed Pilots month continues with a look at the ABC television pilot for Tagteam. Pro wrestlers “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Jesse “The Body” Ventura star as thinly fictionalized versions of themselves ousted from the wrestling circuit and train … Continue reading
Yakmala: Warrior of the Lost World
Thanks to the runaway success of George Miller’s The Road Warrior (or Mad Max 2, if you’re Australian), for a brief, shining moment back in the early ‘80s, every hack with a camera was heading out to some dusty backwater … Continue reading
Yakmala: Pink Force Commando
Holy shit, did you know dreams are real? Not like, “Hey, I had this dream, and it happened,” and you’re all, “Please don’t tell me another one about you eating nachos with Margot Robbie.” No, I mean somehow, in China, … Continue reading
Yakmala: The Vampire Raiders
Vampires are a lot like the ketchup of genre fiction: people think you can add them to anything and you have a brand new taste sensation. Occasionally, though, you get something so insane the script had to have been scraped … Continue reading
Yakmala: Swimfan
Back in my office working days, my old boss was perusing the newspaper, hunting for a movie he’d like to see. He asked his wife if she was interested in seeing “the fish movie.” After about thirty minutes, an enigma … Continue reading
Yakmala: Fantastic Four
Time for some real talk: nobody likes dark superhero movies. Oh sure, there’s a subculture out there who longs to pile into a theater and be told how terrible it is to have phenomenal powers, and to be so hot … Continue reading
