cult film freak: July 2022

Written by James M. Tate / 7/31/2022 / No comments / george takei , james doohan , leonard nimoy , nichelle nichols , robert wise , seventies , star trek , stephen collins , walter koenig , william shatner

AESTHETICALLY MARVELING OVER 'STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMNzdJO6EDpkoLzwwIztAGZkOGQLkHaDhbNpZSahFceGud23a8jNLRkP-ciATB_9IMU8IJTCJnKFYz36iEHE59Nlc_tvS35-dn-E9epC239_s_cKbs4Z7hpoLft3_dJN0LhaaNedA85yI0-b6G3evX9z3uy2VdaqLz8ntljiqfs7aJfvOW4YXruPV4ESC/s2252/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%209.49.35%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="2252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMNzdJO6EDpkoLzwwIztAGZkOGQLkHaDhbNpZSahFceGud23a8jNLRkP-ciATB_9IMU8IJTCJnKFYz36iEHE59Nlc_tvS35-dn-E9epC239_s_cKbs4Z7hpoLft3_dJN0LhaaNedA85yI0-b6G3evX9z3uy2VdaqLz8ntljiqfs7aJfvOW4YXruPV4ESC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%209.49.35%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>All the Original Cast STAR TREK films have titles that fit the plot... from a former villain's revenge to seeking a possibly dead Vulcan to a visit back to Earth... except THE MOTION PICTURE, unless you count Robert Wise's direction as more of a deliberately massive presentation of special effects from the teams behind both 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and STAR WARS, visually progressing what was on the small screen onto the big screen... .And there's not much plot except what's borrowed from an episode where an enigmatic vessel has returned for, most likely, a lethal intention... only this much larger, shapeless foe is created for the audience and reunited crew to marvel upon in a cerebral epic that, while on the heels of the George Lucas orbital dog-fighting blockbuster, is actually more in the deliberately slow-paced science-fiction vein of Stanley Kubrick's pioneering classic...

george takei, james doohan, leonard nimoy, nichelle nichols, robert wise, seventies, star trek, stephen collins, walter koenig, william shatner

AESTHETICALLY MARVELING OVER 'STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE'

Title: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 All the Original Cast STAR TREK films have titles that fit the plot... from a...

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTING ISAAC HAYES AS 'TRUCK TURNER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiV2CxVpfFYqRbxMM1A5jd-6mmnTMOMMoGUHMIQ3f_cApR7j9WtpIgPnRlQw7R_l0CPnEs1V17QronX7J_Y8H-dBrW9tHSRltpKZ-Q_DrBl9QBE2nccx0cypbcb4Wew3jacBRx0R2caOsO3j183CoUY44ZB1a3-g_qTl2a3FO5gjyVo_LroXKYtT1eaBPN/s1732/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-31%20at%201.38.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1732" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiV2CxVpfFYqRbxMM1A5jd-6mmnTMOMMoGUHMIQ3f_cApR7j9WtpIgPnRlQw7R_l0CPnEs1V17QronX7J_Y8H-dBrW9tHSRltpKZ-Q_DrBl9QBE2nccx0cypbcb4Wew3jacBRx0R2caOsO3j183CoUY44ZB1a3-g_qTl2a3FO5gjyVo_LroXKYtT1eaBPN/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-31%20at%201.38.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alan Weeks and starring Isaac Hayes as TRUCK TURNER Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>At a certain point, with pressure to stop Blaxploitation films... from black groups no less... the genre had to become partially comedic, deliberate parodies, unlike the ultra-serious game-starter SHAFT... but before getting downright silly there's TRUCK TURNER wedged perfectly in-between dark humor and badass bloody action...Smoothly constructed by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/slams.html">THE SLAMS</a> director Jonathan Kaplan, the Oscar-winning SHAFT composer Isaac Hayes provides an even cooler score while his ex-football player character's partnered with affably humorous sidekick Alan Weeks (who picked his feet in THE FRENCH CONNECTION), countered by monopolizing, short-cut-taking, smoothly antagonistic villain Yaphet Kotto, making TURNER more like a modernized Sam Peckinpah Western in pimp's clothing...

action, alan weeks, blaxploitation, body count, interview, isaac hayes, jonathan kaplan, nichelle nichols, paul harris, roland bob harris, stan shaw, yaphet kotto

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTING ISAAC HAYES AS 'TRUCK TURNER'

Alan Weeks and starring Isaac Hayes as TRUCK TURNER Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2 At a certain point, with pressure to stop Blaxploitation film...

DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FROZEN DEAD' FEATURING ANNA PALK

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEu1ZC-M1cf58b0Dk324pZkIxNQIR3CgX0iUOPVSK69HynUyU1OFnDH8bJ-h6keeCHxChw94QcDgSjY3l7LedYy9msDKD3SMmgYMTgO6mqvR_fLQ7ngqPBvjUNBvIGQUCjN5uZO6Lfi7wknft2wuw-eqAZty7BM_lOTN_1GHBP55Y9K0FxQ9mT_LjZlw/s1685/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%2011.14.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEu1ZC-M1cf58b0Dk324pZkIxNQIR3CgX0iUOPVSK69HynUyU1OFnDH8bJ-h6keeCHxChw94QcDgSjY3l7LedYy9msDKD3SMmgYMTgO6mqvR_fLQ7ngqPBvjUNBvIGQUCjN5uZO6Lfi7wknft2wuw-eqAZty7BM_lOTN_1GHBP55Y9K0FxQ9mT_LjZlw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%2011.14.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Andrews with Anna Palk in THE FROZEN DEAD Year: 1966 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>Dana
 Andrews plays a German Nazi scientist in the modern era (1966) while 
his gorgeous niece, played by Anna Palk, who initially visited her 
father's manor with a friend, who quickly vanishes by morning... and 
both ingenues makes this almost worth the price of admission and the 
torture of sitting through... almost... 
 
The previous year Andrews played another... well not a mad scientist but
 more an impatient one from CRACK IN THE WORLD while his time, Dana's 
Dr. Norberg keeps his cool, acting gentlemanly...

anna palk, dana andrews, exploitation, horror, kathleen breck, nazi, science-fiction, sixties

DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FROZEN DEAD' FEATURING ANNA PALK

Dana Andrews with Anna Palk in THE FROZEN DEAD Year: 1966 Rating: ** Dana Andrews plays a German Nazi scientist in the modern era (1966) wh...

STANLEY BAKER AND DAVID WARNER HEIST IN 'PERFECT FRIDAY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs2V3P3hYis07JAYHBFnGly5TY1yiRoQG88yNttRMUkXwIgtK8nD6MRdGlaNG8-4gdBuxqtbtiGa201CHTUAIfXdipwrKAMy2Rvp3PuPw0nj8Wqx40ZN_VOt6UKRP9hB0pzFThTKmcXVcusGsLurMqvO8bLbKDN59gSc-zpq2haapGohILFAGPvq2NA/s1470/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-05%20at%2010.23.19%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs2V3P3hYis07JAYHBFnGly5TY1yiRoQG88yNttRMUkXwIgtK8nD6MRdGlaNG8-4gdBuxqtbtiGa201CHTUAIfXdipwrKAMy2Rvp3PuPw0nj8Wqx40ZN_VOt6UKRP9hB0pzFThTKmcXVcusGsLurMqvO8bLbKDN59gSc-zpq2haapGohILFAGPvq2NA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-05%20at%2010.23.19%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: PERFECT FRIDAY Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In the stylish and quirky British bank-heist comedy PERFECT FRIDAY, the most offbeat aspect is the editing, providing non-linear time sequences where uptight banker Stanley Baker meets with a flaky Lord played by David Warner in a museum... a single conversation randomly spliced throughout the first twenty-minutes as we get to know Baker's dull banking desk job... until Ursula Andress walks in...While the quirky/offbeat Warner really seems like he's channeling Peter O'Toole, Baker's professionally classy role is to the tough guy actor what THE THOMAS CROWNE AFFAIR was to Steve McQueen, only his Mr. Graham has very little money,.. as does a perpetually-broke Warner in an almost sexless marriage to Andress, making for the usual "who'll backstab who?" criminal trio, common in this genre...

british, crime, dark comedy, david warner, heist, neo noir, quirky, seventies, stanley baker, ursula andress

STANLEY BAKER AND DAVID WARNER HEIST IN 'PERFECT FRIDAY'

Title: PERFECT FRIDAY Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 In the stylish and quirky British bank-heist comedy PERFECT FRIDAY, the most offbeat aspect ...

JOHN CARPENTER WITH TOBE HOOPER DIRECTING 'BODY BAGS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zCvcDIrj6RaNrW-6R38fQDQ743H0aid8wp_teU1d71zHbHhdhIA5CWKeK9J15vYJDTXQ2G6ZtpA1q2eG32zwJgxvAY_mi5O4IyksCYKazrurbRPh7a8DkKbMGh5XvKCjTtXJLuFY5asEsBozVN9mLo0q3PvZXfVWY7RXjUrpY7EkFVGKzqBfCvy7jv0C/s1881/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-25%20at%209.39.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1881" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zCvcDIrj6RaNrW-6R38fQDQ743H0aid8wp_teU1d71zHbHhdhIA5CWKeK9J15vYJDTXQ2G6ZtpA1q2eG32zwJgxvAY_mi5O4IyksCYKazrurbRPh7a8DkKbMGh5XvKCjTtXJLuFY5asEsBozVN9mLo0q3PvZXfVWY7RXjUrpY7EkFVGKzqBfCvy7jv0C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-25%20at%209.39.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1993 The Gas Station: **** Hair: ***1/2 Eye: *** Coroner Frame Story: *** Overall: ***1/2 </td></tr></tbody></table>John Carpenter, director of horror classics HALLOWEEN and THE FOG, must have been influenced by TALES FROM THE CRYPT, the anthology series hosted by a longhaired smart-ass skeletal Crypt Keeper that, as The Coroner in a dusty morgue, the lanky Carpenter (donning ghoulish makeup) is fairly reminiscent of...And the famous director’s jovially wicked performance seems like he's having fun with family and friends, showing them how the acting bug rubbed off after working with good to great actors and actresses, but he's too self conscious to make the wacky character really work. Although it's a decent enough gimmick to introduce the segment: Seeing each dead body, especially those wrapped in BODY BAGS — which means the cause isn't natural — leads creatively into three cable TV stories… The first vignette, one of two directed by Carpenter himself, is aptly titled....

alex datcher, david naughton, david warner, horror anthology, john carpenter, mark hamill, nineties, peter jason, robert carradine

JOHN CARPENTER WITH TOBE HOOPER DIRECTING 'BODY BAGS'

Year: 1993 The Gas Station: **** Hair: ***1/2 Eye: *** Coroner Frame Story: *** Overall: ***1/2 John Carpenter, director of horror classi...

REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL 'TRON' JEFF BRIDGES & DAVID WARNER

adventure, bruce boxleitner, cindy morgan, david warner, disney, eighties, jeff bridges, science fiction, steven lisberger

REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL 'TRON' JEFF BRIDGES & DAVID WARNER

Year: 1982 Rating: **** Steven Lisberger is the Steve Wozniak of computer cinema, but what he first created on the big screen didn't gi...

JENNIFER CONNELLY STEALS DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE HOT SPOT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdKI01dKZiaCpAiQIG3rcN4DZrUwnNeyqDGIPju8bPy_6fizziCLPsxtnCIZu2VAGMX828ww2_oh6ja-0OACcnpsffxe68SBTdPcBrbEHpaEDtGEKNHawLK9oMpDwEYsk7SbKfsNHoyikZT7XoWsPezrfHV93pUw1miMiTQ2cVefpy1mdxrFWGI7AssHk/s1835/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-27%20at%202.20.17%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1835" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdKI01dKZiaCpAiQIG3rcN4DZrUwnNeyqDGIPju8bPy_6fizziCLPsxtnCIZu2VAGMX828ww2_oh6ja-0OACcnpsffxe68SBTdPcBrbEHpaEDtGEKNHawLK9oMpDwEYsk7SbKfsNHoyikZT7XoWsPezrfHV93pUw1miMiTQ2cVefpy1mdxrFWGI7AssHk/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-27%20at%202.20.17%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE HOT SPOT AKA  ZONA CALIENTE Year: 1990 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>You really know that director Dennis Hopper's THE HOT SPOT is a Noir when, within ten minutes of entering a new town... one that's extremely small and fitfully hot, and in Texas... Don Johnson's so smitten with local blackmailed beauty Jennifer Connelly, he questions her with the kind of irked jealousy a husband would have...But she's the good girl here, comparably, while stacked-blonde Virginia Madsen's our sultry femme fatale... married to Johnson's wealthy used car lot boss... as quickly taken with old Don as he was with young Connelly, and, within moments, they're sharing not only heated chemistry but explosive sack time...

barry corbin, charles martin smith, dennis hopper, don johnson, heist, jennifer connelly, jerry hardin, neo noir, thriller, virginia madsen, willia sadler

JENNIFER CONNELLY STEALS DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE HOT SPOT'

Title: THE HOT SPOT AKA ZONA CALIENTE Year: 1990 Rating: ***1/2 You really know that director Dennis Hopper's THE HOT SPOT is a Noir wh...

DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWgNdFxPP-xyRYWjY4RAxZ68SrdD_mvzzEdANqDutd5UBMz7MzpRb0br9KO5TXqKYph_OUg1B46cG_EzIzd26tGT9IrlJ0l1qcw6h8V1BADpviXHvdF7LhSPkkjs2tsfFDmz36Kx-ZV4rBZ3MOqWsnRM7v3ziQv9Lr9f6Oljq2aXFXUIWPbdYa0_STfQ/s1484/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWgNdFxPP-xyRYWjY4RAxZ68SrdD_mvzzEdANqDutd5UBMz7MzpRb0br9KO5TXqKYph_OUg1B46cG_EzIzd26tGT9IrlJ0l1qcw6h8V1BADpviXHvdF7LhSPkkjs2tsfFDmz36Kx-ZV4rBZ3MOqWsnRM7v3ziQv9Lr9f6Oljq2aXFXUIWPbdYa0_STfQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by actors... but by the mid-to-late 1950's he sometimes looked like a hired stock actor completely misplaced, especially for the Hermann Melville adaptation of Typee titled ENCHANTED ISLAND...Where he and equally miscast Don Dubbins are two sailors from a late 9th Century ship (captained by a grouchy Ted de Corsia) that lands on the titular South Pacific location, and they aren't allowed to have fun with the loose native girls...

adventure, dana andrews, don dubbins, fifties, island, jane powell, ted decorsia

DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'

Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: ** In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by a...

DANA ANDREWS, LINDA CRISTAL AND KENT SMITH IN 'COMANCHE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50RN9_4HD-itz4TngFI69vkcTRLpEeM9SeU54NG86OAQWRkOm3IStvUE_rSy1g1hp8nng9ptWG-3V2q3zIXZObtDdgxcHVZI-sMseZZ1UFAu3MgFJQRqfsPxUtBaRwQz90lpy3U-mefNtYVnIpfge9xwI2JjJ3PPjx3DjHpagmn4t4waWPBRbOjBEDg/s1039/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1039" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50RN9_4HD-itz4TngFI69vkcTRLpEeM9SeU54NG86OAQWRkOm3IStvUE_rSy1g1hp8nng9ptWG-3V2q3zIXZObtDdgxcHVZI-sMseZZ1UFAu3MgFJQRqfsPxUtBaRwQz90lpy3U-mefNtYVnIpfge9xwI2JjJ3PPjx3DjHpagmn4t4waWPBRbOjBEDg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Andrews in COMANCHE Year: 1966 Rating: 1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Many Westerns, started around this time, the mid-to-late 1950's, will have a white character more compassionate to the Indians and for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews</a>, as a scout named Jim Read, this was familiar territory since he'd recently played a similar character in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/rapids.html">SMOKE SIGNAL</a>, which had enough action to make up for all the preaching... And the latter is about all COMANCHE has within a series of meetings between the hilariously miscast blond-haired Kent Smith as, of all things, an Indian Chief of the titular tribe, about to do battle with... not white men this time but Mexicans who've been exploiting Indians and their scalps...

adventure, dana andrews, fifties, harry brandon, kent smith, linda cristal, melodrama, western

DANA ANDREWS, LINDA CRISTAL AND KENT SMITH IN 'COMANCHE'

Dana Andrews in COMANCHE Year: 1966 Rating: 1/2 Many Westerns, started around this time, the mid-to-late 1950's, will have a white chara...

DANA ANDREWS AND JEANNE CRAIN IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JbzJlHFAbKK5oFkuieQirxqlch4TR7xFMhLHsshlYvQldA-MfwGq9C4HEgn5fap_zSkG4ybjFTJnRYb9k82lR3ZeGOBVV05EyvN5nwwLNdw1-QbePbR3djNbWgaE8cSEd8COWEPQNk_z75Tje19lKZNEzPN2oIlyvvdqiJPMHutlT08hRDT_UMT6Gw/s1999/12%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1999" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JbzJlHFAbKK5oFkuieQirxqlch4TR7xFMhLHsshlYvQldA-MfwGq9C4HEgn5fap_zSkG4ybjFTJnRYb9k82lR3ZeGOBVV05EyvN5nwwLNdw1-QbePbR3djNbWgaE8cSEd8COWEPQNk_z75Tje19lKZNEzPN2oIlyvvdqiJPMHutlT08hRDT_UMT6Gw/s16000/12%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" Yet HOT RODS TO HELL only begins as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

DANA ANDREWS AND JEANNE CRAIN IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: **** "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and n...

SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82VDJb8vnZrem8SAMnahfk3o06Lt00zAvPmbdUzb8HB3PGId7zQdg_PjVBUz2oySEUg4TFSIx_wpF4I5Ij8nLI2cO2iAZq-YI9uALNB2Dz9ZuZx5O5J3bzZ9jTi04J-8zrwgd1KzbGs2VvGKy967Eeo25V_h7phX3Noor6Gqj9VN69VDaMDYF5WSKxQ/s1069/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%208.22.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="1069" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82VDJb8vnZrem8SAMnahfk3o06Lt00zAvPmbdUzb8HB3PGId7zQdg_PjVBUz2oySEUg4TFSIx_wpF4I5Ij8nLI2cO2iAZq-YI9uALNB2Dz9ZuZx5O5J3bzZ9jTi04J-8zrwgd1KzbGs2VvGKy967Eeo25V_h7phX3Noor6Gqj9VN69VDaMDYF5WSKxQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%208.22.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1979  rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do plenty. And the Concorde Jet is the speedster of the skies. 
 
So here's a plane that can dodge heat-seeking missiles, which occurs during the first of two flights – there and back from America to Paris. The plot has Robert Wagner as a corrupt businessman with something to hide.

david warner, disaster, ensemble, george kennedy, seventies, susan blakely, suspense, sybil danning

SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'

year: 1979 rating: *** A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do p...

TOM HANKS & DARYL HANNAH IN RON HOWARD'S 'SPLASH'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2UKqM_bM4w0PvCqt8rAuS-qMSLCbHXhE7rQzTz70OIftf_q8lD1qRf_Rh-dQIrTpDfVDSyiI8szRkD00F0ouLJhcBZCunY-s_iUbH0WjjnLcgg-WaeYB2OgXXx6Z9Z2FEFh2AlgNGCHJwzXkNVJ94y7sm1vxk2k2wVf1y7Zw_-glXgStsnJ6ULmpo5w/s2039/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-14%20at%205.42.57%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="2039" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2UKqM_bM4w0PvCqt8rAuS-qMSLCbHXhE7rQzTz70OIftf_q8lD1qRf_Rh-dQIrTpDfVDSyiI8szRkD00F0ouLJhcBZCunY-s_iUbH0WjjnLcgg-WaeYB2OgXXx6Z9Z2FEFh2AlgNGCHJwzXkNVJ94y7sm1vxk2k2wVf1y7Zw_-glXgStsnJ6ULmpo5w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-14%20at%205.42.57%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SPLASH Year: 1983 Director: Ron Howard Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>On David Letterman, John Candy got an awkward, giggling reaction from the audience when he described the plot of his upcoming movie, SPLASH, which, to most everyone's surprise, worked so perfectly it didn't seem a stretch at all...Involving two pairs connected to Tom Hanks...the first and funniest with his older, flaky, black-sheep, scene-stealing brother Candy, passive partner of their family's fruit/vegetable company, hilariously running after any woman around (seeming like a character visiting from his own movie) while Hanks, struggling to keep the business alive and having just broken-up with his girlfriend, is both aloof and brokenhearted...

daryl hannah, eighties, eugene levy, fantasy, john candy, romantic comedy, ron howard, tom hanks

TOM HANKS & DARYL HANNAH IN RON HOWARD'S 'SPLASH'

Title: SPLASH Year: 1983 Director: Ron Howard Rating: ****1/2 On David Letterman, John Candy got an awkward, giggling reaction from the audi...

DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD GROUNDS 'IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_kPlrtEKEsnK1MKkZXXwRozdsQAv1SHCOhC9EH7GsaDIB_e0pftArTypbMM0k9fE6XuTOAz3wdVmIAJC6D3D1twNIbUT9j7QFy17pg2NRgNLyfCKiKeeitq9khW0yrG8VL3PwggbAMCofcBLrJ0D7Cr0bIKmWeLR_MdrJVf-BFyf5ETkER53sABs9KQ=s2114" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="2114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_kPlrtEKEsnK1MKkZXXwRozdsQAv1SHCOhC9EH7GsaDIB_e0pftArTypbMM0k9fE6XuTOAz3wdVmIAJC6D3D1twNIbUT9j7QFy17pg2NRgNLyfCKiKeeitq9khW0yrG8VL3PwggbAMCofcBLrJ0D7Cr0bIKmWeLR_MdrJVf-BFyf5ETkER53sABs9KQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The same year as the theatrical WAR OF THE WORLDS, where what resembles a meteorite lands on Earth and turns out being aliens that the entire region witnesses, amateur stargazer Richard Carlson is all alone in what's half a theory: while it's fact that something landed into the desert ground, only HE realizes what's really inside it...And Jack Arnold was beginning a great career as Universal's science-fiction/monster b-movie director, and while the near-future TARANTULA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and both CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON features, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE is more slow-burn than exciting, and while somewhat short on outright thrills and suspense, the story's told so conventionally and unpretentiously it all seems completely natural, providing Arnold a natural fit for bringing farfetched down to earth...

barbara rush, fifties, horror, jack arnold, kathleen hughes, richard carlson, russell johnson, science-fiction, thriller

DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD GROUNDS 'IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE'

Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 The same year as the theatrical WAR OF THE WORLDS, wh...

VAL GUEST'S 'KILLER FORCE' AKA 'THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dQUiEcVzuRVnsRn6tgBdHcS-XkYuyj5zTL16iySu_blm5VXMUzM3ZeHkIeTEOTJdZyymcsU2g41RCQCmZlD_9Akfudl1imTnleu0IBunIDIsGl36c-Xn9X07IxrQvNiGqO-FDK5uy0MhntOlik8yCrHAaPp7kW2GQetlEz8W_MFJNBetTPmLLFxMGam7/s1358/411102006_1853721855056982_3066518112935668379_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dQUiEcVzuRVnsRn6tgBdHcS-XkYuyj5zTL16iySu_blm5VXMUzM3ZeHkIeTEOTJdZyymcsU2g41RCQCmZlD_9Akfudl1imTnleu0IBunIDIsGl36c-Xn9X07IxrQvNiGqO-FDK5uy0MhntOlik8yCrHAaPp7kW2GQetlEz8W_MFJNBetTPmLLFxMGam7/s16000/411102006_1853721855056982_3066518112935668379_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Titles: KILLER FORCE/THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES Year: 1976 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>The only thing more pathetic than Peter Fonda's fake beard is that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">director Val Guest</a> had almost no career after making some of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/hammer%20films">Hammer</a> Films' best work, from horror to war to science-fiction to (like this) crime thrillers... And while KILLER FORCE is no Hammer there's Dracula himself, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/christopher%20lee">Christopher Lee</a>, within a group of DIAMOND MERCENARIES in a South African desert where the beautiful-vastness of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA meets the jeep-leaping potential of THE RAT PATROL, and, either indoors or out, Lee's the most cold-blooded villain (killing perfectly good hooker Marina Christelis for no apparent reason) in a movie all about villains...

action, body count, christopher lee, ensemble, exploitation, heist, hugh o'brian, maud adams, mission, o.j. simpson, peter fonda, team-up, telly savalas, val guest

VAL GUEST'S 'KILLER FORCE' AKA 'THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES'

Titles: KILLER FORCE/THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES Year: 1976 Rating: *** The only thing more pathetic than Peter Fonda's fake beard is that d...

HENRY WINKLER AND MICHAEL KEATON PIMPING 'NIGHT SHIFT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZublm3qmDJ-k4pvTqsqiO-cDP-U0_lom_Q9gDbYG3EyOFcQVFjcWF5A8fGQqEkhKO4tanxhNPgnoWJOwuB_WgGCT9XhX5oabqLpA5EeV4xmfovCW9MvhHikxXX1P2MYPYEjMRQ_JOtoMzlzasi7GN-5rNwWqY60r1ZO5qds8FKWHhuH7aZPuVdQQ_eQ/s2160/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-13%20at%2011.54.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="2160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZublm3qmDJ-k4pvTqsqiO-cDP-U0_lom_Q9gDbYG3EyOFcQVFjcWF5A8fGQqEkhKO4tanxhNPgnoWJOwuB_WgGCT9XhX5oabqLpA5EeV4xmfovCW9MvhHikxXX1P2MYPYEjMRQ_JOtoMzlzasi7GN-5rNwWqY60r1ZO5qds8FKWHhuH7aZPuVdQQ_eQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-13%20at%2011.54.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: NIGHT SHIFT Director: Ron Howard Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>As a director, Ron Howard got his groove before realizing he really had it. Then he became more confident behind the lens for big budget catchall mainstream flicks like BACKDRAFT, and therein the Emperor was naked to the bone...

Wedged in-between Howard's Roger Corman car crash vehicle GRAND THEFT AUTO and his hit phenom SPLASH, NIGHT SHIFT is one of the most original and unique buddy comedies of all time...

eighties, exploitation, gina hecht, henry winkler, kevin costner, michael keaton, prostitute, richard belzer, ron howard, shannen doherty, shelley long

HENRY WINKLER AND MICHAEL KEATON PIMPING 'NIGHT SHIFT'

Title: NIGHT SHIFT Director: Ron Howard Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 As a director, Ron Howard got his groove before realizing he really had ...

DON JOHNSON WITH SUSANNE BENTON IN 'A BOY AND HIS DOG'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjg_i1pAtNZKJeXEawtkGZVOvpgjITb7ETS61uGLkjh8usSipcX7Pbt_ZDNcDPr0Esq6O5KaKDmyVKQDcaPcUBLuIpLviAinwyTmJm-nbdfOEIssE2VJ69fG71oYDvaWsV7ojatAwp_kGuTbEtyLtJoVJWVh6t06EI92HEiF4BkI7IPjIU2Q8NQfP-g/s1803/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%202.51.25%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1803" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjg_i1pAtNZKJeXEawtkGZVOvpgjITb7ETS61uGLkjh8usSipcX7Pbt_ZDNcDPr0Esq6O5KaKDmyVKQDcaPcUBLuIpLviAinwyTmJm-nbdfOEIssE2VJ69fG71oYDvaWsV7ojatAwp_kGuTbEtyLtJoVJWVh6t06EI92HEiF4BkI7IPjIU2Q8NQfP-g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%202.51.25%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: A BOY AND HIS DOG Pictured: Susanne Benton and Don Johnson Director: L.Q. Jones Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Actor L.Q. Jones adapted and directed Harlan Ellison's A DOG AND HIS BOY, creating a post-apocalyptic wasteland that influenced the entire MAD MAX template that would inspire countless other scorched earth films, all from Jones's bottom-dollar production company that'd already made two rural super-low-budget horror flicks THE WITCHMAKER and THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN... so BOY would finalize and legitimize an unconnected drive-in trilogy... Which wasn't easy, taking him five-years to adapt a script that Ellison basically gave up on, and although it takes most of the dialogue from the source novella, the telepathically-speaking dog, Blood, sounds more like Jones's kind of timeworn Texan than Ellison's snotty New York intellectual, helping the titular BOY in Don Johnson's Vic find women while he helps the dog (handicapped from having the ability to speak) find food...

adventure, cult, don johnson, hal baylor, harlan ellison, horror, jason robards, l.q. jones, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, seventies, susanne benton

DON JOHNSON WITH SUSANNE BENTON IN 'A BOY AND HIS DOG'

Title: A BOY AND HIS DOG Pictured: Susanne Benton and Don Johnson Director: L.Q. Jones Year: 1975 Rating: **** Actor L.Q. Jones adapted and ...

STROTHER MARTIN & GERI REISCHL 'THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYX_9LbG61ol7nm21VpzpqMC8rgMVzKll7W1x_lcJKrfb07c3cjI4av1VObgfzMX2L-dO5TRZAVmQqgjhaUbkNW2-av5hTE5hMjHUroC6FgwiXJGQDEu6kGgTXlU1gDHDdjUdIyLR9fQgVZSJhlQwkLAOFE5QmxRkiLqWZ0l4PSE5AN_-8uOx5Du7ldQ/s1329/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%2010.35.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYX_9LbG61ol7nm21VpzpqMC8rgMVzKll7W1x_lcJKrfb07c3cjI4av1VObgfzMX2L-dO5TRZAVmQqgjhaUbkNW2-av5hTE5hMjHUroC6FgwiXJGQDEu6kGgTXlU1gDHDdjUdIyLR9fQgVZSJhlQwkLAOFE5QmxRkiLqWZ0l4PSE5AN_-8uOx5Du7ldQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%2010.35.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geri Reischl in THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN Year: 1971 Rating: *</td></tr></tbody></table>Produced and featuring actor L.Q. Jones, co-starring his fellow Sam Peckinpah stock member Strother Martin and directed by Bernard McEveety, THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN is 90-minutes the very, very, very long way... With a perfect married couple and their perfect blonde daughter getting stranded in a rural town that, as we learn halfway through, consists of Satan-worshiping old folks led by Strother as the local doctor under the secret protection of L. Q. as sheriff: the town recruiting children (including Debi Storm) for the cause...

charles bateman, debi storm, exploitation, geri reischl, horror, l.q. jones, rural, seventies, small town, strother martin

STROTHER MARTIN & GERI REISCHL 'THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN'

Geri Reischl in THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN Year: 1971 Rating: * Produced and featuring actor L.Q. Jones, co-starring his fellow Sam Peckinpah ...

SAM PECKINPAH MELLOWS FOR 'THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdADWBwZ2r1y894IwKiJnYkEcB7J1sKpHEI2A1YQ9PfaE-HR0el9xy9GmzgOvFdxgmU3ka4tMyMALEnPMIHKI74MbbzfCr0R_VYC78f2PsrDpJUXwPOqewcZNVGnYAL86Zjx79xYTqUtjMNg9ipe1Q4BJLqkwLdqMyXJib3bBCntnqpeivsorFYLkZtg/s1880/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdADWBwZ2r1y894IwKiJnYkEcB7J1sKpHEI2A1YQ9PfaE-HR0el9xy9GmzgOvFdxgmU3ka4tMyMALEnPMIHKI74MbbzfCr0R_VYC78f2PsrDpJUXwPOqewcZNVGnYAL86Zjx79xYTqUtjMNg9ipe1Q4BJLqkwLdqMyXJib3bBCntnqpeivsorFYLkZtg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written in memory of L.Q. Jones Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>After making the Western to end all Westerns, THE WILD BUNCH, director Sam Peckinpah traded deadly gunfights with light romance and sped-up-camera-hijinks while THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE still remains a genuine Western, but more of a breezy, escapist fable and with somewhat of a TV-movie cadence... Starring Jason Robards as the titular aimless, desert-dwelling hobo who, right off the bat, is double-crossed by two lowlife outlaws, providing Peckinpah-stable actors Strother Martin and especially L.Q. Jones the only roles that fit into the auteur's recent-past and limited future of gritty exploitation cinema...

david warner, jason robards, l.q. jones, peter whitney, r.g. armstrong, romance, sam peckinpah, seventies, stella stevens, strother martin, vaughn taylor, western

SAM PECKINPAH MELLOWS FOR 'THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE'

Written in memory of L.Q. Jones Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 After making the Western to end all Westerns, THE...

JAMES CAAN & PETER BOYLE IN THE NOIR ROAD MOVIE 'SLITHER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzGQ_vYcW5qvUJ1AIlArVIEcJ8UYppH94H15TSYQP5iQRnJwWAwyMfO8bbrsWDoe4pN6xUvzBJRV3XmoBSN_XXuc05ZQ8c6iuMgWc9sc2Ze9pgo6m1T9BSIEqE57MHqJgouQICJ9ZF2biZUMXHRyFEMik2UdxQeKDDGtGQkDdpe7kJIw60E2x9rLTLZDb/s2242/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%2012.37.24%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="2242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzGQ_vYcW5qvUJ1AIlArVIEcJ8UYppH94H15TSYQP5iQRnJwWAwyMfO8bbrsWDoe4pN6xUvzBJRV3XmoBSN_XXuc05ZQ8c6iuMgWc9sc2Ze9pgo6m1T9BSIEqE57MHqJgouQICJ9ZF2biZUMXHRyFEMik2UdxQeKDDGtGQkDdpe7kJIw60E2x9rLTLZDb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-13%20at%2012.37.24%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SLITHER Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Right after playing the tough, feisty Sonny Corleone in THE GODFATHER, square-jawed James Caan went another direction; but it takes around fifteen minutes into SLITHER to realize this particular hardened criminal (a freshly sprung ex-con) isn't really tough at all... 
 
As in, he doesn't prefer fighting, whether offense or defense, seeming dazedly reluctant when a cranky farmer wants to break his arm for hitchhiking... and what Caan holds back provides one of his best performances...

action, adventure, alex rocco, allen garfield, james caan, jazz-score, louise lasser, mystery, neo noir, peter boyle, richard b. shull, road movie, sally kellerman, seventies, warner archives

JAMES CAAN & PETER BOYLE IN THE NOIR ROAD MOVIE 'SLITHER'

Title: SLITHER Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2 Right after playing the tough, feisty Sonny Corleone in THE GODFATHER, square-jawed James Caan wen...

JAMES CAAN AND ALAN ARKIN ARE 'FREEBIE AND THE BEAN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcS2KRpOPpty_0h2rtm0LF-zGPFbxCQeHP0NF92w2CTC7VRPdcueYlDgcz4nDVhF8l5PmS8wuKnh8xCetAgla6K1zR3hLMK2so8RMY2kLwJza3BiALoQuIY1UVJNLVbry6A-IbSJr9hao1MKXD9w-DInJ-5vZMTzkHSCeiVYhqXb47y0dcNZSlQ61fA/s1530/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.30.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcS2KRpOPpty_0h2rtm0LF-zGPFbxCQeHP0NF92w2CTC7VRPdcueYlDgcz4nDVhF8l5PmS8wuKnh8xCetAgla6K1zR3hLMK2so8RMY2kLwJza3BiALoQuIY1UVJNLVbry6A-IbSJr9hao1MKXD9w-DInJ-5vZMTzkHSCeiVYhqXb47y0dcNZSlQ61fA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.30.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>FREEBIE AND THE BEAN was very popular upon release, which is understandable. Unlike other movies directed by Richard Rush, these characters are likable right from the start: Two cops that make for an odd couple in James Caan's reckless Freebie and a more patient yet equally spontaneous Bean, referring to a derogatory Mexican nickname — this sure isn't PC... At one point, Caan is described by BEAN's famously glib actor Alan Arkin as an "Archie Bunker," the 70's term for a funny racist... 
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Despite these spitfire insults and fast-paced comebacks, it's obvious Freebie and Bean are very close. Maybe too much since the audience never really learns about the guys before both explode with perpetual arguments, tirades, monologues...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_na2P31dL_8xNtdU1-I6Vti7qJte3NuIZKuWuy2thDy2uVKK59VXGheYEdkJl8gfPDxGeOJCUdOQyCsTFNg1-I8QaQglmtJtSxNqbVfAgRDvfY2E4IjEMN0_6PpjzIhXnofPP-BwLHKtYPz4qzJISCmFwLrkFU8cdmqZoh8h5Uvh1nZDQUZcStj4sQ/s1876/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.37.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="1876" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_na2P31dL_8xNtdU1-I6Vti7qJte3NuIZKuWuy2thDy2uVKK59VXGheYEdkJl8gfPDxGeOJCUdOQyCsTFNg1-I8QaQglmtJtSxNqbVfAgRDvfY2E4IjEMN0_6PpjzIhXnofPP-BwLHKtYPz4qzJISCmFwLrkFU8cdmqZoh8h5Uvh1nZDQUZcStj4sQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.37.29%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN </td></tr></tbody></table>Like an old married couple's screaming (more than even Alan Arkin and his sexy cheating wife played by Valerie Harper) heard from the apartment next door, most of the picture has that edgy element up-close, but never too personal...And the bad guys they beat up or bully aren't known for how bad they are for their punishment to be rooted for. Yet despite all the frantic running around, the quirky undercover recreants don't beat around the bush when it comes to their mission...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTfqtA95zKns1fuzA9zHbXO9WYidrRPg9mYx_LQRrSb_mvgAQyeDq1Xcfei4O8dxOEuUBspAXJ0fOsiYZ1H8vLEkDqr5AkU599on7KBvES6Y08qxupnaoKDzQG3pH_dgl1p4sejx_yAMvWxLsANSzGaL2R-gpviHCU7_0V3IbI6gxJcf1OK4I4kguJDQ/s1611/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.39.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1611" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTfqtA95zKns1fuzA9zHbXO9WYidrRPg9mYx_LQRrSb_mvgAQyeDq1Xcfei4O8dxOEuUBspAXJ0fOsiYZ1H8vLEkDqr5AkU599on7KBvES6Y08qxupnaoKDzQG3pH_dgl1p4sejx_yAMvWxLsANSzGaL2R-gpviHCU7_0V3IbI6gxJcf1OK4I4kguJDQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.39.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN </td></tr></tbody></table>While THE FRENCH CONNECTION — then the gold standard for partnered-up cop films — provided a rudimentary glimpse into how the detectives work, separate from the mainline plot,  FREEBIE (that has almost the same exact plot of another buddy-cop-riling-a-fat-mafioso flick BUSTING the same year) begins like watching a TV show's first episode after having missed the pilot, or as if you'd walked into the theater fifteen-minutes late...Our timid staked-out anti-heroes watching an alley cat invade a trashcan full of (what we soon learn are) possible clues. And yet the plot, to bust a fancy, upper-class crime boss while at the same time protecting him from hit men, takes backseat to the shenanigans derived from behind the wheel...

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Meanwhile, some of the comedic frenzy is hit or miss but there's enough purpose and reason to make each demolished location more than just a result from the ongoing gratuitous bedlam: But there's a lot of that too, and not without a price... 
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Caan gives Paul Koslo a knuckle-sandwich in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN</td></tr>
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JAMES CAAN AND ALAN ARKIN ARE 'FREEBIE AND THE BEAN'

Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 FREEBIE AND THE BEAN was very popular upon release, which is un...

REVIEW OF 'NIGHT TIDE' WITH DENNIS HOPPER & LINDA LAWSON

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what it is, even if the audience is never quite sure: Taking place in the early, sparse days of Venice Beach, California, a sailor 
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A young cherubic-faced Dennis Hopper is fun to watch as the gullible love-sick sailor. He won't
 listen to all the warning about her track record. Let's 
face it, the guy is hooked... And it's nice seeing Hopper as a normal person, 
not a burn-out, weirdo or psychopath, in a movie with gorgeous B&W cinematography and a jazz score, and club...

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REVIEW OF 'NIGHT TIDE' WITH DENNIS HOPPER & LINDA LAWSON

Curtis Harrington's NIGHT TIDE Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Many early-1960's films had a million dissolves, and didn't always kno...

JAMES CAAN STARRING IN 'THE GAMBLER' WITH PAUL SORVINO

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9XtHd_YJiVE7ZDGLPJ34u6UY-S-v7tmOqPnplCr-WkHDniE6Psfo_DXLrJVwHIPtSvxDWpj0IUQLSZEQteBHHIEiD5UlgjXdsLvtreAR9qW9GivCfjzeiel9QDXzl1R6z2AKayn2YpR4J5AqxzYMwLDj2xqxE0KwOYI597-rcXebuzBPQaIezYrW88g/s1456/Screen+Shot+2020-05-10+at+4.58.11+AM%203.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9XtHd_YJiVE7ZDGLPJ34u6UY-S-v7tmOqPnplCr-WkHDniE6Psfo_DXLrJVwHIPtSvxDWpj0IUQLSZEQteBHHIEiD5UlgjXdsLvtreAR9qW9GivCfjzeiel9QDXzl1R6z2AKayn2YpR4J5AqxzYMwLDj2xqxE0KwOYI597-rcXebuzBPQaIezYrW88g/s16000/Screen+Shot+2020-05-10+at+4.58.11+AM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Caan starring as  Axel Freed in James Tolback's THE GAMBLER Year: 1974 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In pop culture, before you had to "know when to walk away, know when to run," THE 
GAMBLER was synonymous with a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel and transcended 
into this 1970’s film written by James Toback, directed by 
Karel Reisz and starring James Caan as university professor Axel 
Freed, who hardly ever has enough money left to count... 
 
But Axel's real story isn’t his job, but his 
vice, practically a religion — that of balls-out and brainless gambling: An addiction making him the user/loser of other people’s
 money, including his own mother (more like a flirtatious step-sister). But, while it’s great seeing Caan facing the dark side of human nature, 
there’s a lot to be desired when, for instance, he gets in over his 
head… and then some...

antonio fargas, burt young, carmine caridi, college, drama, gambling, james caan, paul sorvino, seventies, thriller, vic tayback

JAMES CAAN STARRING IN 'THE GAMBLER' WITH PAUL SORVINO

James Caan starring as Axel Freed in James Tolback's THE GAMBLER Year: 1974 Rating: *** In pop culture, before you had to "know w...

ALLEN GARFIELD & LEIF GARRETT IN 'SKATEBOARD THE MOVIE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Although promoted as a Leif Garrett vehicle, the bulk of SKATEBOARD belongs to character-actor Allen Garfield as struggling talent agent Manny, who owes big bucks to bookie Anthony Carbone. 
 
Garfield previously appeared as antagonistic side-characters in THE CONVERSATION, NASHVILLE, SLITHER and BUSTING, and with an exception of the low-budget gumshoe comedy CRY UNCLE, he was never given a leading role...

allen garfield, anthony carbone, comedy, cult, exploitation, gordon jump, kathleen lloyd, leif garrett, pam kenneally, pat hitchcock, seventies, sport, tony alva

ALLEN GARFIELD & LEIF GARRETT IN 'SKATEBOARD THE MOVIE'

year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2 Although promoted as a Leif Garr...

JOHN BELUSHI & DAN AYKROYD SIGNING OFF WITH 'NEIGHBORS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUgdkZTGzp_nxl7J1k-TjC4nTM2ctALoOCaIe1Ci-1enGev7SF27vvLSeBCZLvDvqTe5lcOGQbZxqqfYqCQqPgc8wpEmFSXR-Ec9YyPQ9PnOiOqZswSiImQM_OsMueBcFfq-BNJ8h4cV9IRZJG_agHdDV3MjK9Ks4HYKJMmgCZ9RUu1eeIqute56-dAw/s1004/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-05%20at%203.44.36%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1004" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUgdkZTGzp_nxl7J1k-TjC4nTM2ctALoOCaIe1Ci-1enGev7SF27vvLSeBCZLvDvqTe5lcOGQbZxqqfYqCQqPgc8wpEmFSXR-Ec9YyPQ9PnOiOqZswSiImQM_OsMueBcFfq-BNJ8h4cV9IRZJG_agHdDV3MjK9Ks4HYKJMmgCZ9RUu1eeIqute56-dAw/w400-h261/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-05%20at%203.44.36%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: NEIGHBORS Year: 1981 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>John Belushi's last film is unique, to say the very least. And the least, plot-wise, is what NEIGHBORS is all about: Against type he plays an uptight suburban husband with a bland wife in a big bland house at the end of a rural col de sac... also bland... 
 
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Until wacky Dan Aykroyd and Cathy Moriarty move in next door, making his existence, through the course of one night, a tedious yet, in its own way, strangely addicting experience... An everything-goes-wrong kinda thing — only there's too much bizarre intrusion to make the ordinary domestic setting seem real in the first place. And under the otherwise capable direction of John G. Avildsen (who made edgy, smaller films like JOE and SAVE THE TIGER before his Oscar winning ROCKY), composer Bill Conti's horrendous, cartoon-like score (replacing Tom Scott at the last minute) adds insult to injury: traipsing along with the antics... while sometimes even spoiling them... 
 
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So there are very few surprises; which includes variations of particular theme songs, like for instance, THE TWILIGHT ZONE (both are weird, get it?) and especially No Place Like Home, and yet, despite the many flaws, it's still very intoxicating, somehow. 
 
But while considered a disaster on the Belushi/Aykroyd curve of THE BLUES BROTHERS and their Saturday Night Live greatness, NEIGHBORS actually does more damage to the excellent page-turning novel by Thomas Berger. The weirdness is secondary to the characters and not the other way around, which gets tedious, quick. Then again, it's a really tough book to adapt. Maybe, in this age of binging streaming vehicles, someone can do this justice. And it wouldn't necessarily be a remake. 
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cathy moriarty, dan aykroyd, dark comedy, eighties, john belushi, john g. avildsen

JOHN BELUSHI & DAN AYKROYD SIGNING OFF WITH 'NEIGHBORS'

Title: NEIGHBORS Year: 1981 Rating: **1/2 John Belushi's last film is unique, to say the very least. And the least, plot-wise, is what N...

CORNEL WILDE, SCOTT GLENN AND JENNIFER SALT IN 'GARGOYLES'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISIBIOKMNf6qgKqb61cUN9jurpVdl5-UD_iYMMmCoEe8APCkCvLuOnOtd7-BGAWKca7B-deO0OGUTSBcPy_FpHa3-gG2aGYqMYSP_-oFf8CdK8nkpBSCw1LfrBZ-mm5i45AO--9VPSXwSmXrNsDCgJt8tTbZR7zPA70Jo8RwLw5DGqNCMiVFVwO7iQA/s1396/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISIBIOKMNf6qgKqb61cUN9jurpVdl5-UD_iYMMmCoEe8APCkCvLuOnOtd7-BGAWKca7B-deO0OGUTSBcPy_FpHa3-gG2aGYqMYSP_-oFf8CdK8nkpBSCw1LfrBZ-mm5i45AO--9VPSXwSmXrNsDCgJt8tTbZR7zPA70Jo8RwLw5DGqNCMiVFVwO7iQA/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: GARGOYLES Year: 1973 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Cornel Wilde plays a writer obsessed with debunking Gothic mythologies, and answers a call to hear an old man in the middle of the desert who owns a rural liquor store/freak show hybrid, and has a Gargoyle skeleton to possibly prove it...Jennifer Salt tags along as Wilde's progressive photographer daughter, and eventually winds up kidnapped by the titular creatures that... seeking their skeletal bones that Wilde took with him... prance around in a surreal/dreamlike fashion; ultimately led by Bernie Casey outfitted in green monster garb that, created by Stan Winston, looks effective and creepy, especially for a TV-movie...

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CORNEL WILDE, SCOTT GLENN AND JENNIFER SALT IN 'GARGOYLES'

Title: GARGOYLES Year: 1973 Rating: **** Cornel Wilde plays a writer obsessed with debunking Gothic mythologies, and answers a call to hear ...

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER & ELLIOTT GOULD IN 'THE SILENT PARTNER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpo6EuuPGBZfRkU1Uyu1oFx8MQlpnRe_NRLNP-p5YmC5csOEIpAuQLSBGbC5SJhh-qM8WHZ5LhSATkL8lQpO6k5eneWju8d7XBDnsg9bWi9gEkxl3C9ikEP1iECqAgaqa-oIef7TX_xaAQwvYXPDQCVaQKgYT5h2VJ5Tmn6M5QBsrjTnfr9y3U-rvXg/s1931/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%203.42.37%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1931" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpo6EuuPGBZfRkU1Uyu1oFx8MQlpnRe_NRLNP-p5YmC5csOEIpAuQLSBGbC5SJhh-qM8WHZ5LhSATkL8lQpO6k5eneWju8d7XBDnsg9bWi9gEkxl3C9ikEP1iECqAgaqa-oIef7TX_xaAQwvYXPDQCVaQKgYT5h2VJ5Tmn6M5QBsrjTnfr9y3U-rvXg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%203.42.37%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE SILENT PARTNER Year: 1978 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>An almost perfect vehicle for Christopher Plummer, who, playing either nice guys or menacing villains, was always intensely scowling and extremely intimidating... Especially in the Canadian bank-heist thriller THE SILENT PARTNER (made in Canada showing Canadian cash); yet he's a little too silent and needed to be in the picture more, all but vanishing halfway through until a somewhat rushed third act...

canadian, céline lomez, christopher plummer, elliott gould, heist, john candy, seventies, stephen young, susannah york, thriller

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER & ELLIOTT GOULD IN 'THE SILENT PARTNER'

Title: THE SILENT PARTNER Year: 1978 Rating: *** * An almost perfect vehicle for Christopher Plummer, who, playing either nice guys or menac...

CAMERON CROWE FOLLOWS FAST TIMES WITH 'THE WILD LIFE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFixvoTRCxMWF0KjLcP_ESdlxEYn5hrQzgaz1SW210rBdwgfzPgNdwkhZvGr6Bz-HBEeUludy4g26lfRET7aZNZ6z8Cw7X0s9DmVOSbbHLHR2WGx35K31bkaFP5a4DM2EyrMbYJQ0seCNZShAhrtPVA6kmdaPWw_YLE0EvAB6vZNlM55wcwB6n3sSZA/s1519/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-01%20at%204.00.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFixvoTRCxMWF0KjLcP_ESdlxEYn5hrQzgaz1SW210rBdwgfzPgNdwkhZvGr6Bz-HBEeUludy4g26lfRET7aZNZ6z8Cw7X0s9DmVOSbbHLHR2WGx35K31bkaFP5a4DM2EyrMbYJQ0seCNZShAhrtPVA6kmdaPWw_YLE0EvAB6vZNlM55wcwB6n3sSZA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-01%20at%204.00.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984 Writer: Cameron Crowe Stars: Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>THE WILD LIFE, an underrated, extremely unappreciated and relatively obscure and unknown teenage summertime sex comedy directed by Art Linson and written by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/fast-times.html">FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH</a> creator 
Cameron Crowe has a somewhat deliberately facetious, misleading title...Although
 two of the main characters — Chris Penn as Tom Drake, channeling brother Sean’s Jeff Spicoli in jock form, and Ilan-Mitchell Smith as stoner kid Jim 
Conrad — are rebellious enough, the buried lead goes to Jim’s big brother Bill, who, played by Eric Stoltz, moves into an apartment complex for his twenty-something independence...

chris penn, comedy, edward van halen, eighties, eric stoltz, hart bochner, ilan-mitchell smith, jenny wright, lea thompson, rick moranis, ron wood, teen

CAMERON CROWE FOLLOWS FAST TIMES WITH 'THE WILD LIFE'

Title: THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984 Writer: Cameron Crowe Stars: Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz Rating: **** THE WILD LIFE, an underrated, extremely u...

SCRUTINIZING THE FUTURE-SPORT CULT-WORLD OF 'ROLLERBALL'

action, drama, james caan, john houseman, maud adams, norman jewison, pamela hensley, science-fiction, seventies

SCRUTINIZING THE FUTURE-SPORT CULT-WORLD OF 'ROLLERBALL'

Title: Rollerball Year: 1975 Rating: **** Science-Fiction usually has only rich and poor, no middle. ROLLERBALL is somewhat different. Ever...

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