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Damnation Alley

Post-nuclear Armageddon, the skies look like Yes album covers. Our small group of survivors — military men George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent and Paul Winfield — cruises around the wasteland in a cool LandMaster tram vehicle which is run by a Texas Instruments calculator. In their travels through “Damnation Alley,” they encounter giant scorpions, man-eating cockroaches […]

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Gordon’s War / Off Limits

Not much, other than having an African-American star and Vietnam as a plot point, but that’s enough for Shout! Factory to pair them on a single-disc double feature. The former isn’t your average blaxploitation picture; the latter is your below-average cop film. Directed by veteran actor Ossie Davis (from TV’s “The Defenders” to Spike Lee’s […]

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