The 411 Interview: Jeff Kirschner and Christopher Lombardo
Jeff Kirschner is a genre movie journalist and fan and English college professor. Christopher Lombardo is a writer, author, and film critic. They’re both from Canada and they’re the masterminds behind the excellent Really Awful Movies Podcast and the terrific book
Death by Umbrella: The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons, which came out in 2016. The duo’s latest book is the awesome
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours: The 100 Wackiest Action Movies, which was released via Schiffer Publishing in November 2020. In this interview, Kirschner and Lombardo talk with this writer about writing
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours, the action movie genre, their favorite movies in the genre, and more.
Cage,
Cage on the list. The same goes for their takedown of
Death Wish 3. It’s always refreshing to read a different view on a movie that you deeply love.
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours also exposes people to movies that they maybe have never heard of and had no idea existed (that’s what happened to me, anyway).
Geteven/
Road to Revenge, the vanity project of John DeHart? Until I read the review in the book I was totally unaware of the movie. Now that I have read about it (and subsequently checked out the movie’s trailer on YouTube), I
Flash Point
Donnie Yen December: Week 1
Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the internets movie review column that has never had to jump from one building’s roof to another building’s roof in order to continue the pursuit of a bad guy that just did bad guy things, The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, and I am your host Bryan Kristopowitz. In this issue, issue number five hundred and seventy-nine, Donnie Yen December begins with the 2007 action flick
Flash Point.
Flash Point
Flash Point, directed by Wilson Yip (appearing under the name Yip Wai Shun) is an oddly compelling Hong Kong action crime flick. The story isn’t very original and it’s hard to tell what, exactly, is going on for a good part of the time, but the badass charisma of star Donnie Yen and the awesome action sequences Yen creates for the screen (Yen is listed in the credits as the movie’s action director) more than make up for the movie’s shortcomings.