![]() The fun continues through Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). Starting with 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Mike Myers and friends delivered some ridiculously smart skewerings of the spy movie genre along with very big laughs. Netflix has you covered this month with one of the more absurdly entertaining trilogies you’ve ever seen. Sure, horror and action are fun, but sometimes you just want to laugh at funny shit. A vampire versus hijackers 20,000 feet in the air? Could be fun! Laughter Truly is the Best Medicine ![]() The aircraft is hijacked, but the terrorists don’t know who’s seated in coach. 2019 saw a fun little one with the cleverly named Blood Vessel about a vamp on a ship, and now Blood Red Sky (premieres July 23rd) sends one into the friendly skies on a passenger plane. It’s a nice change of pace, then, when filmmakers find an original spin with their bloodsucker tale. Vampire movies are ubiquitous on genre shelves, and most are pretty interchangeable. So far so good, but check out this cast - Karen Gillan, Carla Gugino, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, and Paul Giamatti. Navot Papushado is first out of the gate with Gunpowder Milkshake (premieres July 14th), a stylish-looking action film about female gunslingers and the man foolish enough to try putting them down. Rabies (2010) and Big Bad Wolves (2013) are a pair of terrific genre flicks out of Israel, among the first from the country’s film community, and while the films’ two directors have gone their separate ways both have solo projects heading to a screen near you. Both the premise and the title intrigue, and both directors (Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli), while relatively new on the scene, are already showing a clear interest in the spookier side of cinema. ![]() Their night goes from bad to worse, though, when an even creepier cult comes calling. A Classic Horror Story (premieres July 14th) sees five people survive an RV crash only to wake up in a forest near a creepy house. You’ve seen multiple iterations on the “cabin in the woods” theme, but now it’s time for an Italian one.
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