“Flash – aha! – saviour of the universe!” Even if you’ve never seen the 1980 version of Flash Gordon you’ve probably heard Queen’s bombastic title song. Its a knowingly ludicrous movie, which somehow manages to be both respectful (sort of) of the original 1940s movie serials and at at the same time firmly tongue in…
Flesh Gordon
First up, I’ve never seen 1974 soft-porn parody Flesh Gordon! Clips on YouTube, however, given a pretty good idea of what to expect, as Flesh and co travel to the planet Porno to try save the earth from the evil Emperor Wang. Various special effects artists who cut their teeth on this movie went on…