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Marty McKee
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Well, there's certainly no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty.

I would think once it was established that evidence had been planted/manipulated by the police, then one would have to assume *all* evidence was planted/manipulated.

Isn't it stated in the doc that Kusche intentionally drew Avery instead of drawing the description that Beersten gave him of her attacker?

Oh, god, these cops were plenty dumb. Dumb enough to call in Halbach's license plate over the radio two days *before* her vehicle was "officially" found. Dumb enough to use a syringe to steal Avery's blood and plant it all over her vehicle, but not also plant any of his DNA there.

Because they would have found Lenk's and/or Colburn's fingerprints on it.

It was a good neighborhood. A multiplex in Savoy, Illinois, where I was working as a projectionist at the time. AMERICAN CYBORG may have been Cannon's final theatrical release. We were supposed to get HELLBOUND — we even received a one-sheet — but it ended up going straight to VHS.

I kinda put STEEL FRONTIER on the B list. The stunts are great, but I don't think PM did post-apoc that well. I'm also not a Joe Lara fan (though I'm one of the few who saw AMERICAN CYBORG in a theater).

Not sure how easy to find PM DVDs are now, though Netflix still has some. Peak PM would be EXECUTIVE TARGET, THE SWEEPER, LAST MAN STANDING, RAGE, RIOT, RECOIL, THE SILENCERS, DARK BREED, THE UNDERGROUND. I guess some people could get tired of seeing PM's patented "four cars spinning upside-down simultaneously through

One highlight of most PM films was spotting the camera that would be destroyed. Virtually all their biggest films featured at least one stunt where a vehicle would fly through the air and land on top of a camera that was getting the POV shot. Because stunts were shot with multiple cameras, you could often spot the POV

No, the writing wasn't great, but frankly who cares? The scripts were good enough, I think. All these films needed were a star, a few recognizable character actors, and enough story to justify the stunts.

Those 80s and early 90s shot-on-video features are practically unwatchable. Wings Hauser's 1990 THE ART OF DYING was a big step up for PM, though the action films they're best known for are less sleazy and more into action and stunts rather than suspense and horror.

Theatrical grosses were low, sure, but that was like 1% of their total worldwide gross. Corman films of the BLOODFIST era scored low domestic box office for many reasons (that's a different article), but the theatrical releases were basically technicalities to promote the VHS releases, which were enormously popular.

Pam Grier and Cynthia Rothrock, in the U.S., are the only ones that come to mind. Grier branched out to other genres as she aged and gained more experience, but when she was a full-fledged movie star, it was solely through action vehicles.

That's Anna Nicole Smith, not Pamela Anderson. Easily the worst performance by a lead actress ever in a Hollywood production.

Don "The Dragon" Wilson would not have starred in so many movies if people weren't watching them. Roger Corman produced eight BLOODFIST movies, the first two for theatrical release. I assure you a helluva lotta people were renting them.

Interesting that the article censored the title "LETHAL WEAPON 4." I've been stating for years that Richard Donner ripped off DARK BREED, but since I'm the only one who's ever seen DARK BREED, nobody listened.

I wonder if Lorne would book the 2016 version of 1979 Bowie on the show today. I kinda doubt it.

And putting innocent man Tom Selleck in prison.

Works for me.

MR. NO LEGS is one of those trailers I've seen a zillion times. But who cares, because it's incredible.