Brick Hardcastle

Genre Specialist

Claims to have watched every action movie released between 1982 and 1997 during a single summer above a video store in Tucson. Submitted an unsolicited 600-word review of Samurai Cop containing fourteen sentences, each a complete thesis. His critical framework is binary: a movie either commits or it doesn't. Boring-bad is the only unforgivable sin.

Articles (5)

The Canon6 min read

Best Bad Action Movies: The Explosion Index

Every explosion in these films was earned. Not through narrative necessity, but through a filmmaker's absolute refusal to let things like 'physics' or 'plot' interfere with the detonation schedule.

The Canon6 min read

Best Bad Horror Movies: A Taxonomy of Terror

Horror has given us more gloriously terrible cinema than any other genre. These are the films that tried to scare you and accidentally made you laugh until you couldn't breathe.

The Canon6 min read

Best Bad Movies of the 80s: The Golden Age

The 1980s were to bad movies what the Renaissance was to painting: a period of unprecedented production, boundless ambition, and complete disregard for quality control.

The Canon4 min read

10 Action Movies That Commit

A movie either commits or it doesn't. These ten committed.

The Deep Dives5 min read

Nicolas Cage: A Career in Commitment

He ate a live cockroach. He stole the Declaration of Independence. He punched a woman in a bear suit. Every choice was deliberate.