Category archives: Ninth Circle Film Club

The 9th Circle Film Club: Rocky IV (1985)

Ah, Rocky IV…how much do I love thee? Let me (randomly) number the ways. 1) You’re an intoxicating potpourri of muscle fetishism, bloody violence, revenge and cloying sentimentality that is so 1985 it actually hurts (see Commando for even more… continue reading »

The 9th Circle Film Club: The Cartier Affair (1984)

Zealous and pedantic fans of Joan Collins and David Hasselhoff will have to forgive me. Their 1984 made-for-tv, wannabe-screwball crapfest The Cartier Affair (in which they come together like a kitsch immovable object meeting a camp unstoppable force) caused me… continue reading »

The 9th Circle Film Club: CyberTracker (1994)

So listen, you wretched bunch of phoneys, I know you pretend to like prestige transcendo-flicks like The Hours, or triumph-of-the-yadda-cocksplat rubbish like A Beautiful Mind – but I also know what you’d rather be doing. Sprawled out on the couch… continue reading »