Dennis Lipscomb Archives

Crossroads (1986)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 8, 2001Blues Music Quest/Pact With The Devil

One of Walter Hill's finest films that sets out in search of the soul of blues music, featuring a superlative performance from Joe Seneca as an aging bluesman who wants back the soul he traded to The Devil for success

Director: Walter Hill

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Robert Judd, …

Category: Fantasy

8 December 200113 January 2026 by Roog

Retribution (1987)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 3, 2021Possession Film

Interestingly watchable 80s film where a man becomes possessed by a disembodied soul that sets out seeking revenge against its killers. With lots of entertainingly lurid despatches

Director: Guy Magar

Actors: Dennis Lipscomb, Leslie Wing, Suzanne Snyder, Hoyt Axton, …

Category: Horror

3 March 20213 March 2021 by Roog

The First Power (1990)

Rating: ★★

Aug 17, 2002Executed Killer's Supernatural Revenge

This was made not long after Wes Craven's Shocker. Here detective Lou Diamond Phillips faces a serial killer who comes back from the dead after going to the gas chamber and can hop between bodies

Director: Robert Resnikoff

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, …

Category: Horror

17 August 200214 February 2026 by Roog

Death Ring (1993)

Rating: ★★

Apr 2, 2006Action Film/Human Hunting for Sport

Another action movie variant on The Most Dangerous Game with Chuck Norris’s son Mike facing hunters on a remote island. Featuring a cast made up of the relatives of more famous actors

Director: R.J. Kizer

Actors: Mike Norris, Billy Drago, Chad McQueen, Don Swayze, …

Category: Horror

2 April 200620 November 2025 by Roog

Without Warning (1994)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 1, 2023Live TV Broadcast/Possible Alien Arrival

Made for the anniversary of the Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, a tv movie that simulates a a live newscast as alien craft arrive around the world

Director: Robert Iscove

Actors: Jane Kaczmarek, Dwier Brown, James Morrison, Philip Baker Hall, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 August 202318 June 2024 by Roog

Automatic (1995)

Rating: ★

Jul 3, 2000Action/Android Hero

Olivier Gruner plays an android who goes rogue after accidentally killing his boss. A dull action film with no greater ambition than to be an SF version of Die Hard

Director: John Murlowski

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Daphne Ashbrook, John Glover, Jeff Kober, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 200021 November 2025 by Roog