DECONSTRUCTING 'STRANGE BEHAVIOR' INVOLVING 'DEAD KIDS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhO0NBkvni_KK7oDd7Us2tnrOcxR3YzFhxhIwxk3R_SsfGlWD3FiQlEVvfEa9vVhyphenhyphenBs91OA63M7gmukYkdvNK_qAN6AE5K6Ekcr4lP8NChfTTD6zG2_VjNIcpQt7YSwfZLmR_IEAbj-AYP0PY9m8jkg01WkJn517D2LTpCGPwKtBjSgyOR0XGjccNV1Cc1Q/s2374/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-31%20at%205.30.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="2374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO0NBkvni_KK7oDd7Us2tnrOcxR3YzFhxhIwxk3R_SsfGlWD3FiQlEVvfEa9vVhyphenhyphenBs91OA63M7gmukYkdvNK_qAN6AE5K6Ekcr4lP8NChfTTD6zG2_VjNIcpQt7YSwfZLmR_IEAbj-AYP0PY9m8jkg01WkJn517D2LTpCGPwKtBjSgyOR0XGjccNV1Cc1Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-31%20at%205.30.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STRANGE BEHAVIOR aka STRANGE KIDS Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In director Michael Laughlin and co-writer/producing partner Bill Condon's second in their Strange-Double-Feature, titled STRANGE INVADERS, Dey Young and Dan Shor appear in a quick prologue as young yet old-fashion 1950's-era lovers, smooching in a car...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And two years earlier in STRANGE BEHAVIOR they're again behind the wheel, but here as the lead characters in modern times... the sheriff's son and his progressive girlfriend... as she timidly smokes after he'd (covertly) altered into a living-zombie-type, knocking her out before returning to the film's ominous epicenter — that caused his potentially lethal mental and physical transition...</p><span></span>

bill condon, dan shor, dey young, eighties, elizabeth cheshire, fiona lewis, horror, louise fletcher, marc mcclure, michael laughlin, michael murphy, science-fiction, scott brady, tangerine dream

DECONSTRUCTING 'STRANGE BEHAVIOR' INVOLVING 'DEAD KIDS'

Title: STRANGE BEHAVIOR aka STRANGE KIDS Year: 1981 Rating: **** In director Michael Laughlin and co-writer/producing partner Bill Condon...

PAUL LE MAT DRIVES JONATHAN DEMME'S 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjNzKOS1bZez1zDzDjeJH4ECCt9A7QN148l1rSOU0whkZKlGUONEDQyRy4E_I-HuvF1UczlhO6wk4ovwcwJD1MyFhuJYjfBd5_SYH8v4fdXB0cWz1KdF2tazK5sbs1M2HQnr0qh_lJNItWIj1M6IXJ-02YRz1JqGetACE7F6CX21LbsfK0fhJGzLQM0NC37/s1192/363351384_1775756192853549_8465661431329407813_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="1192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNzKOS1bZez1zDzDjeJH4ECCt9A7QN148l1rSOU0whkZKlGUONEDQyRy4E_I-HuvF1UczlhO6wk4ovwcwJD1MyFhuJYjfBd5_SYH8v4fdXB0cWz1KdF2tazK5sbs1M2HQnr0qh_lJNItWIj1M6IXJ-02YRz1JqGetACE7F6CX21LbsfK0fhJGzLQM0NC37/s16000/363351384_1775756192853549_8465661431329407813_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michal Hendrych's artwork for MELVIN AND HOWARD Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Quirky biopic based on the truth as told by a liar, in this case Melvin Dummar played by AMERICAN GRAFFITI hot-rod hotshot Paul Le Mat, again behind the wheel in the important first act consisting of twenty-minutes with Jason Robards portraying the Howard of MELVIN AND HOWARD — as in the infamously reclusive billionaire Hughes, who Dummar claimed left $150M in his will... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As the then low-budget director Jonathan Demme tells the dodgy tale as if it were entirely legitimate, after Hughes crashes a motorcycle and, partially injured with the ragged, zombie-pale hangdog  countenance, is picked up and taken by overnight driver Dummar to "his hotel" in Las Vegas — both eventually (and in Hughes' case reluctantly) sharing favorite songs as Robards makes terrific use of the short yet important screen-time... </p><p><span></span></p>

biopic, charles napier, comedy, dabney coleman, denise galik, drama, eighties, elizabeth cheshire, indie, jason robards, jonathan demme, mary steenburgen, michael j pollard, paul lemat

PAUL LE MAT DRIVES JONATHAN DEMME'S 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'

Michal Hendrych's artwork for MELVIN AND HOWARD Year: 1980 Rating: **** Quirky biopic based on the truth as told by a liar, in this case...

GEORGE HAMILTON KILLS FOR 'CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A.'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgcRQoPHyllQWbUPinBppZlPptD_6CWxHmjFf1QvT48dLnYMUmSInUt27h-sH0bEcrdFSQlHVHU0HCeloQiu0TTCjdh7PdDAbbepsNYBoeqcdkLnN6xafF4p1ZWBYqTEUW4id1kg7uOqCFltVgkpzmeUUQAEMJ3y4k-BrVUCphZh5rSk4zF0sOg5lH-TwPi/s2314/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-28%20at%207.41.52%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="2314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRQoPHyllQWbUPinBppZlPptD_6CWxHmjFf1QvT48dLnYMUmSInUt27h-sH0bEcrdFSQlHVHU0HCeloQiu0TTCjdh7PdDAbbepsNYBoeqcdkLnN6xafF4p1ZWBYqTEUW4id1kg7uOqCFltVgkpzmeUUQAEMJ3y4k-BrVUCphZh5rSk4zF0sOg5lH-TwPi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-28%20at%207.41.52%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. Year: 1959 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Actually more like the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a> than a modernization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT... although that's exactly what it is, by title, and if Frank Silvera's friendly, complimenting homicide detective is reminiscent of the 1970's TV-cop <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/peter%20falk">COLUMBO</a>, both are based on the same literary character...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And ironically, George Hamilton became a victim-of-persuasion from both determined constables and here, resembling Anthony Perkins with the combined personalities of either brainy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a> killer... heavily into Atheist philosophy while inwardly justifying a <i>necessary murder</i>... he's more aimless than guilt-ridden... </p><span></span>

adaptation, fifties, frank silvera, george hamilton, jazz score, mary murphy, neo noir, warner archives, wayne heffley

GEORGE HAMILTON KILLS FOR 'CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A.'

Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. Year: 1959 Rating: **** Actually more like the previous years' COMPULSION than a modernization of Fy...

STEPHEN BOYD, ELKE SOMMER AND TONY BENNETT IN 'THE OSCAR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiFz4PUXTiWbz63TnFScznxDXPq1siZkkYBj5X5cpDYU5wCYBkyDSQbI3TzytMU8UEEV-pEzRdOSJMV39dL3V_Pn_dFPB4XOIyQxpXhpVbQ2K_NkjyiKByjoLk33zrYcU4fLjxF5MI6y37uXUz3FhzzcupE2wSCin8JKtzhvDe4ZYQnyPHLchep9U8RXvlq/s871/oldest.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="871" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFz4PUXTiWbz63TnFScznxDXPq1siZkkYBj5X5cpDYU5wCYBkyDSQbI3TzytMU8UEEV-pEzRdOSJMV39dL3V_Pn_dFPB4XOIyQxpXhpVbQ2K_NkjyiKByjoLk33zrYcU4fLjxF5MI6y37uXUz3FhzzcupE2wSCin8JKtzhvDe4ZYQnyPHLchep9U8RXvlq/s16000/oldest.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stephen Boyd with Eleanor Parker or Jill St John in THE OSCAR Year: 1966 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the most gloriously uncompromising Hollywood-set melodramas, THE OSCAR stars real life semi-star Stephen Boyd, whose chiselled looks and menacing countenance — beginning as the cheating gladiator in BEN HUR — made him more a leading villain than hero, and he plays both here...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Starting as a backroom lowlife alongside passive yet equally-tough sidekick Tony Bennett and lush Jill St. John, he sneakily becomes an actor by manipulating the likes of New York stage director Eleanor Parker connected with Hollywood agent Milton Berle and studio chief Joseph Cotten...</p><p><span></span></p>

elke sommer, ernest borgnine, harlan ellison, hollywood satire, jean hale, jill st john, joseph cotten, melodrama, milton berle, rex holman, sixties, stephen boyd, tony bennett

STEPHEN BOYD, ELKE SOMMER AND TONY BENNETT IN 'THE OSCAR'

Stephen Boyd with Eleanor Parker or Jill St John in THE OSCAR Year: 1966 Rating: *** One of the most gloriously uncompromising Hollywood-set...

REVIEW CRUISING THROUGH 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEierViQkA7CjN-ie-R-rUPHjZaU9AYiDXojRL_rxStIspYAGyzZoAtP309hQ0GIiAIZz4qn1g0NtdZIhfTn5FDxxnJNhyPr9doMjUDondR5hmsIF2tdlliDDekfLv_KdRq6krqMynuUzShQ2qIMbciZSoxncwwR2QTzw_ruDy_iBGBqkguUx-m9fMsccqz9/s2048/brighter.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierViQkA7CjN-ie-R-rUPHjZaU9AYiDXojRL_rxStIspYAGyzZoAtP309hQ0GIiAIZz4qn1g0NtdZIhfTn5FDxxnJNhyPr9doMjUDondR5hmsIF2tdlliDDekfLv_KdRq6krqMynuUzShQ2qIMbciZSoxncwwR2QTzw_ruDy_iBGBqkguUx-m9fMsccqz9/s16000/brighter.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Make an important note while <i>experiencing</i> Quentin Tarantino's entirely different kind of revisionist-history revenge picture: It not only centers around real life counter-culture figures Sharon Tate; Charles Manson and Family (including main slayer Tex Watson and skanky moll Squeaky Fromme); a love-lorn Steve McQueen; a rich, contented Roman Polanski; and pixie hairstylist Jay Sebring... <br> <br> There's also the last of the victims, Donald "Shorty" Shea, a would-be stuntman who thought the hippie horde was taking advantage of his friend/employer George Spahn at the formerly-active Spahn Movie Ranch: the infamous location where Manson and his followers made their very own drug-fueled, Beatles-blaring, conspiracy-plotting, paranoiac playground, ultimately setting stage for the "Helter Skelter Murders" that infamously included an eight-month pregnant Tate...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

2019, al pacino, brad pitt, bruce dern, counter-culture, dark comedy, exploitation, hangout, hollywood satire, leonardo dicaprio, madisen beaty, margot robie, new, quentin tarantino, thriller

REVIEW CRUISING THROUGH 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Rating: **** Make an important note while experiencing Quentin Tarantino...

SEAN PENN DIRECTS VIGGO MORTENSEN IN 'THE INDIAN RUNNER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEirHNpD96Jo2YLx8mSKzZ6SGbveUJbylpPHbj0460JA5Zg1DiaNytShQl7X9NHiHvbn8jyaG8-snmGPfOhu3EwokYWJyVooL-iK7MacLS1ZdSwRg6Ig-z0WomwsLjsctoJ5QduvkPsNE9J6ALoZJMdqNlL7qwOjlZlfbhU3DB5m6NZ8wMQpvnRQaeXQY9V-/s1962/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-14%20at%203.55.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirHNpD96Jo2YLx8mSKzZ6SGbveUJbylpPHbj0460JA5Zg1DiaNytShQl7X9NHiHvbn8jyaG8-snmGPfOhu3EwokYWJyVooL-iK7MacLS1ZdSwRg6Ig-z0WomwsLjsctoJ5QduvkPsNE9J6ALoZJMdqNlL7qwOjlZlfbhU3DB5m6NZ8wMQpvnRQaeXQY9V-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-14%20at%203.55.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE INDIAN RUNNER Year: 1993 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sean Penn wrote and directed THE INDIAN RUNNER about two brothers that couldn't be more different: the central lead is David Morse as Joe Roberts, a humble cop in a small town the movie's set, deliberately outshined by the focal point for both the audience and Joe himself...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter Viggo Mortensen as the scene-stealing ex-con rebel Frank, visually a perfect-looking Marlboro Man with a sleazy antagonistic voice, he's one of those harsh, uncompromising born-losers that hurts everyone and everything, making RUNNER his own character-driven tragedy that, during the Vietnam war, also makes him a jilted returning-veteran: although the time-period aspect seems a bit forced and unnecessary...</p><p><span></span></p>

charles bronson, david morse, dennis hopper, drama, jordan rhodes, melodrama, nineties, patricia arquette, sean penn, vietnam, viggo mortensen

SEAN PENN DIRECTS VIGGO MORTENSEN IN 'THE INDIAN RUNNER'

Title: THE INDIAN RUNNER Year: 1993 Rating: **** Sean Penn wrote and directed THE INDIAN RUNNER about two brothers that couldn't be more...

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT FIGHTS BACK IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'DEFIANCE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg7oZNOzMIVfno_yjpxIbHJgy0PU8ymWVZ3DnNuqQc8uuS254hNVnjMql3VTuTnzdblUkOE7brZhBVrp2yzvfs3LfnL7wR9z5Ym3izFrkZacZtl5Y7v9mBAG8CyZDb5QBW5u0DWjIIE6iBN7TUUZrrnGPWnr3NHwnWud5p2IcNol-faFxmA27d2FcffQA1l/s1864/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-16%20at%201.32.08%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oZNOzMIVfno_yjpxIbHJgy0PU8ymWVZ3DnNuqQc8uuS254hNVnjMql3VTuTnzdblUkOE7brZhBVrp2yzvfs3LfnL7wR9z5Ym3izFrkZacZtl5Y7v9mBAG8CyZDb5QBW5u0DWjIIE6iBN7TUUZrrnGPWnr3NHwnWud5p2IcNol-faFxmA27d2FcffQA1l/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-16%20at%201.32.08%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEFIANCE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both lead actors from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/BW2-MECH.html">THE MECHANIC</a> would get the vigilante bug, especially Charles Bronson, two years later inadvertently igniting the DEATH WISH franchise; and right before the second of five features, Jan-Michael Vincent waged DEFIANCE directed by the always capable John Flynn, who does his best work with low budget b-flicks with big budget intensity... wherein Vincent plays a merchant seaman on leave and doesn't want to be... stuck in New York where the usual bullying gang rears from the woodwork, led by Rudy Ramos, looking a kind of stylish Zoot Suit throwback... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Soon enough this villain's hateful eyes lock on Vincent, about to enter his shabby apartment in a shabbier building that includes the token young mentored boy and gorgeous ingenue, here played with Spanish zest by zesty Italian beauty Theresa Saldana, throwing herself at Vincent's tough silent type... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, church ortiz, danny aiello, don blakely, eighties, frank pesce, jan-michael vincent, john flynn, lenny montana, rudy ramos, theresa saldano, vigilante

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT FIGHTS BACK IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'DEFIANCE'

Title: DEFIANCE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Both lead actors from THE MECHANIC would get the vigilante bug, especially Charles Bronson, two y...

MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTS GRIFFIN DUNNE IN 'AFTER HOURS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhuB4chR4uO-lbcYpzyVUaV2hdSr3V986SmUKcMp9bDZiOMFZadCcCnR_TzvS57lRqWPxyEN6KfF20oHIq9EU9AXxeFU7DjgH35uXc6rRo-_f9nVU_ENLrJZQFqGF51ifkGjl5XlvX4FKWT_dDTdXEtDTIBoHB0DBhC1bDr3HYO0i0u6FNK23PjCK4f3mqf/s1739/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1739" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuB4chR4uO-lbcYpzyVUaV2hdSr3V986SmUKcMp9bDZiOMFZadCcCnR_TzvS57lRqWPxyEN6KfF20oHIq9EU9AXxeFU7DjgH35uXc6rRo-_f9nVU_ENLrJZQFqGF51ifkGjl5XlvX4FKWT_dDTdXEtDTIBoHB0DBhC1bDr3HYO0i0u6FNK23PjCK4f3mqf/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: AFTER HOURS Cast: Griffin Dunne, Patricia Arquette Year: 1985 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For the then very underrated, semi-underground and mostly unrewarded director Martin Scorsese, between his 1990 breakthrough GOODFELLAS and gritty boxing biopic RAGING BULL... at the beginning of the otherwise comparably anti-arthouse 1980's, he created his most thrilling and outright entertaining, hilarious feature film...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the neo noir comedy AFTER HOURS provides some of Scorsese's best visual direction — every single movement of every single person that central lead Griffin Dunne as Paul Hackett encounters is covered by either creative slow-pans or signature quick-zoom-shots, rhythmically in-step with precise, strategically-offbeat cinematography and editing...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, catherine o'hara, comedy, eighties, griffin dunne, john heard, linda florentino, martin scorsese, neo noir, teri garr

MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTS GRIFFIN DUNNE IN 'AFTER HOURS'

Title: AFTER HOURS Cast: Griffin Dunne, Patricia Arquette Year: 1985 Rating: ***** For the then very underrated, semi-underground and mostly...

WAYNE CRAWFORD PLAYS 'JAKE SPEED' STARRING KAREN KOPINS

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjSHGzONR7OOd6ey7V_4KMaMZyF0o7Xc34uw_0MxOAw4m7ILJgH9VZfwwIcswBRpupnOybPTO7KvhOi_z7XDSXIEY0kaK4sxNSvO7AmteVx303PowH-e0X2tb0SLH6qhQfXedX9v6F32ELQf6McOvUPSZXqADFGbJxFx53ThaiBUFun46zFSAJBbKw1XWpY/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-08%20at%209.52.34%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHGzONR7OOd6ey7V_4KMaMZyF0o7Xc34uw_0MxOAw4m7ILJgH9VZfwwIcswBRpupnOybPTO7KvhOi_z7XDSXIEY0kaK4sxNSvO7AmteVx303PowH-e0X2tb0SLH6qhQfXedX9v6F32ELQf6McOvUPSZXqADFGbJxFx53ThaiBUFun46zFSAJBbKw1XWpY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-08%20at%209.52.34%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAKE SPEED Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The plot of ROMANCING THE STONE involves a mousy female harlequin-style novelist living sad and single in Manhattan who, after her pretty, footloose blond sister is kidnapped, goes on an action-packed trip with a flawed yet dashing, handsome maverick who looks like her fictional hero, but only in silhouette...<br> <br>Up close, what New Yorker Karen Kopins (Jim Carrey's girl in ONCE BITTEN) sees in supposed paperback icon JAKE SPEED, played by writer/producer Wayne Crawford (along with VALLEY GIRL partner Andrew Lane), is a scruffy con man: he and his partner, Dennis Christopher's Desmond, tricked her into thinking they could find her kidnapped blond sister: a very familiar plot-line only a year following the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner smash hit...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, comedy, dennis christopher, eighties, john hurt, karen kopins, kidnapping, wayne crawford

WAYNE CRAWFORD PLAYS 'JAKE SPEED' STARRING KAREN KOPINS

Title: JAKE SPEED Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 The plot of ROMANCING THE STONE involves a mousy female harlequin-style novelist living sad and...

JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperactive standup comedian) with the talents to go insanely overboard with zany expressions and physical zaniness, would actually consecutively headline a TV-series and motion picture as the straight man passively watching the goofiness occur around him...<br></p><p></p><p>In 1984, after THE DUCK FACTORY was cancelled, Jim Carrey got his big screen debut in ONCE BITTEN (which gained a cult following on cable television): cleverly stretching a then-timely joke that goes along with while blending into the sex-comedy template: in that four-hundred-year-old vampire Lauren Hutton could never find a modern day virgin to remain youthful... ironic since those comedies are about shy boys trying desperately to lose theirs'...</p><span></span>

cleavon little, eighties, horror satire, jim carrey, karen kopins, lauren hutton, sex comedy, vampire

JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperac...

JOHN CASSAVETES, SUSAN SARANDON & MOLLY RINGWALD 'TEMPEST'

<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/AVvXsEhOjbxvgew4JMj5DZouYxihcINVY6Kxj-YW7CTWG_QzFz36TLrJpC7hUCDZ_jdNMx_ZkwuzQ2-3f2n_hAU4ESJo-z6cwPQfU8Ljr_LfTa5U6Zvxbe0uyhe7PdhlOAWFfFYQW61pzlXulQNaqY-s3LeCwFKUDhS6hWBDiQPipqWrHs5TctVbNMYNLMsQV_bA/s2798/371771697_1793030641126104_7233667350935818661_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="2798" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOjbxvgew4JMj5DZouYxihcINVY6Kxj-YW7CTWG_QzFz36TLrJpC7hUCDZ_jdNMx_ZkwuzQ2-3f2n_hAU4ESJo-z6cwPQfU8Ljr_LfTa5U6Zvxbe0uyhe7PdhlOAWFfFYQW61pzlXulQNaqY-s3LeCwFKUDhS6hWBDiQPipqWrHs5TctVbNMYNLMsQV_bA/s16000/371771697_1793030641126104_7233667350935818661_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TEMPEST Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>“Show me,” says John Cassavete’s intensely desperate character each time a tempest brews: once in New York, where he’s married to Gena Rowlands; the next on a tiny Greek island he lords over with frustrated daughter Molly Ringwald, sexy girlfriend Susan Sarandon, and horny goat herder Raul Julia...<div> </div><div>The best aspects of this unique dark comedy are how the time-frames are edited together, beginning with Cassavetes on his island; then going back in time to New York where he, as a frustrated Architect, desperately needs a getaway: creatively sustaining past and present till the mainline story connects...</div><div><span></span></div>

dark comedy, drama, eighties, gena rowlands, john cassavetes, molly ringwald, paul mazursky, paul stewart, raul julia, sam robards, shakespeare, susan sarandon

JOHN CASSAVETES, SUSAN SARANDON & MOLLY RINGWALD 'TEMPEST'

Title: TEMPEST Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 “Show me,” says John Cassavete’s intensely desperate character each time a tempest brews: once in N...

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s2060/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s16000/1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being filled with great actors... of the British or neighboring-European kind... here from 1950 with night-passage stranded archaeologist Trevor Howard in a Tunisian town, consisting of a noirish tavern that includes wispy ingenue Anouk Aimée and where usual-lead-villain Herbert Lom only <i>seems </i>in charge of the impending darkness...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Turns out being a more sophisticated, monologue-spouting Walter Rilla while Howard's distracted in a beachy romance with the extremely vulnerable Aimée... while Lom's and handsome partner Jacques Sernas are keeping something chillingly secret: the only real nice person is bartender Wilfrid Hyde-White while Howard, in the midst of a lean, economic thriller without much suspense yet high on atmospheric tension, seems to kind of stand around and... wait for the outcome, which is actually pretty tight and pulpy, and worth rewatching. <br /></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s1390/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1932" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard and Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><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/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s2046/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s2064/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2064" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s2002/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s1916/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s1910/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="1910" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wilfrid Hyde-White in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s1804/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1804" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas in GOLDEN SALAMANDER </u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER with Trevor Howard<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>

anouk aimée, british, british film noir, europe, fifties, herbert lom, thriller, trevor howard, wilfrid hyde-white

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being fille...

ROBERT DENIRO TEAMS WITH CHARLES GRODIN IN 'MIDNIGHT RUN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgqnz3Md6RmEoU-gwyFQby5uY2JM4GbUoP0lmOZWyvSk9U1VSgDajli08VS7KqmwvupnfxQPt1sjgN57lg6MKw5eHmBqGHvWL32ipOWzreRehzjr5tnifVAJlDEhnKj9evOTNXJpUASHQ8GLFUjVxcfdUcDw4YXNTAfs0VwZTVSxiQq8g5hWoK9GvOyMlhX/s1598/376234605_1800061767089658_5522927381893661311_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnz3Md6RmEoU-gwyFQby5uY2JM4GbUoP0lmOZWyvSk9U1VSgDajli08VS7KqmwvupnfxQPt1sjgN57lg6MKw5eHmBqGHvWL32ipOWzreRehzjr5tnifVAJlDEhnKj9evOTNXJpUASHQ8GLFUjVxcfdUcDw4YXNTAfs0VwZTVSxiQq8g5hWoK9GvOyMlhX/s16000/376234605_1800061767089658_5522927381893661311_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert DeNiro in MIDNIGHT RUN Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Martin Brest's action/comedy MIDNIGHT RUN is a double-edged sword for Robert De Niro: while it moved him from the cult into the mainstream, he's been continuously selling-out (with the exception of GOODFELLAS and JACKIE BROWN) and cashing-in ever since... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But not like here, keeping his unique edge as tough yet vulnerable bounty-hunting Jack Walsh, partnered with mob accountant turned mob-targeted Charles Grodin, nicknamed Duke but more of an uptight Felix to Jack's mangy Oscar, their bickering dialogue between action sequences providing the best moments in a terrific non-stop ride...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bounty hunter, buddy, charles grodin, comedy, crime, dennis farina, eighties, FBI, joe pantoliano, john ashton, mafia, martin brest, road movie, robert deniro, yaphet kotto

ROBERT DENIRO TEAMS WITH CHARLES GRODIN IN 'MIDNIGHT RUN'

Robert DeNiro in MIDNIGHT RUN Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 Director Martin Brest's action/comedy MIDNIGHT RUN is a double-edged sword for...

WILLIAM LUCAS IN THE BRITISH ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 'PAYROLL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjn_oqXvPeeWgjenIlDoXoV8SNUjeKUrKpJv5R-VRIVdVQVJEc77KbUAwph9wqsF175S0lek4l5Tf8fNmBnJCpv86enXzWxEFprCvfOsQipG2wHv4CxH_yP9ni59OML_VwLrcx9Qg2wqCGDEafI4RxbcE55YxiVjfzP8IGuEWa52K_a5rLw4L4VpCiXVm7r/s1490/less%20yellow.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_oqXvPeeWgjenIlDoXoV8SNUjeKUrKpJv5R-VRIVdVQVJEc77KbUAwph9wqsF175S0lek4l5Tf8fNmBnJCpv86enXzWxEFprCvfOsQipG2wHv4CxH_yP9ni59OML_VwLrcx9Qg2wqCGDEafI4RxbcE55YxiVjfzP8IGuEWa52K_a5rLw4L4VpCiXVm7r/s16000/less%20yellow.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Early example of girl power encroaching a manly action flick, or more like widow power in that Billie Whitelaw only initially <i>seems</i> the docile suburban wife/mother, married to the literally <i>driven</i> creator of an armored vehicle... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Whose invention thwarts a gang's plan to rob a factory safe, now mobile... but the equally driven <i>and</i> dangerous Michael Craig (contrasting to the heroic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Misland.html">MYSTERIOUS ISLAND</a> role) is hell-bent on the blag going down... </p><p><span></span></p>

armored car, billie whitelaw, british, british neo noir, british new wave, françoise prévost, heist, jazz score, kenneth griffith, michael craig, pauline shepherd, revenge, sixties, tom bell, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS IN THE BRITISH ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 'PAYROLL'

Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: *** * Early example of girl power encroaching a manly actio...

RAY HARRYHAUSEN EFFECTS JULES VERNE'S 'MYSTERIOUS ISLAND'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjaPoVqCCQoqVRwJJuidhrTe6CbDxj3VqcNwJdVtqerpjB3Tm3Jg8fwY7gXehwZyihGbny2E16eK0xh59RqUfJzNs_qDyZ_DSXRoDLEDOmTELPUFl-9o4FX9ftgbtqrLzrGRYovr09N2zSY-756BqmBViyNGgmg8MyglDhTrxLxEB6q7NJ4AbSJ7YNti5dv/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-30%20at%2011.02.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPoVqCCQoqVRwJJuidhrTe6CbDxj3VqcNwJdVtqerpjB3Tm3Jg8fwY7gXehwZyihGbny2E16eK0xh59RqUfJzNs_qDyZ_DSXRoDLEDOmTELPUFl-9o4FX9ftgbtqrLzrGRYovr09N2zSY-756BqmBViyNGgmg8MyglDhTrxLxEB6q7NJ4AbSJ7YNti5dv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-30%20at%2011.02.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Known for Ray Harryhausen's giant crab and some kind of lethal chicken, MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is really about the characters, and if you're not "way into films" they're mostly no-named actors, bookended by two handsome fellas, the Alpha in Captain Cyrus Harding, played by a tough and swarthy Michael Craig, and the boyish, semi-cowardly yet endearingly helpful Michael Callan as Herbert Brown...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p> These are Northern prisoners from the Civil War who, right from the start, escape during a raging tempest and steal a hot air balloon that's moving back and forth right outside the prison gates, for some reason... as to why the South has this vessel it's never explained... </p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, beth rogan, cy endfield, gary merrill, michael callan, michael craig, ray harryhausen, sixties

RAY HARRYHAUSEN EFFECTS JULES VERNE'S 'MYSTERIOUS ISLAND'

Title: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Known for Ray Harryhausen's giant crab and some kind of lethal chicken, MYSTERIOUS I...

HARRISON FORD AS 'INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg4zUQRh0vSzDw43U9Z4EsjeY8Zk57E_l06aOAE5gWozrTZcwGDe9sh6tTWN8LeK20g1eNiNVOAmbYl4OLa4JuN3i74_GAVJb40a0J4XaBml7-6S3a4_YaktpVlrCezDJX-zfmHupn5SdVbvIbYD8cXgkw4c58ZjbGdNHt7UsSnMlTytxBLgqJErd5036Li/s2240/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-01%20at%203.29.45%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4zUQRh0vSzDw43U9Z4EsjeY8Zk57E_l06aOAE5gWozrTZcwGDe9sh6tTWN8LeK20g1eNiNVOAmbYl4OLa4JuN3i74_GAVJb40a0J4XaBml7-6S3a4_YaktpVlrCezDJX-zfmHupn5SdVbvIbYD8cXgkw4c58ZjbGdNHt7UsSnMlTytxBLgqJErd5036Li/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-01%20at%203.29.45%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Year: 2023 Grade: C</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For diehard defenders of the entire INDIANA JONES franchise (not just those who feel that RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK stands alone since it was <i>never</i> called INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK), they'll throw the titular Ark of the Covenant coming alive with floating spirits whenever the later episodes go too far into the fantasy or, for the last two ventures, science-fiction and/or science-fantasy realm... but had RAIDERS ended up with Indy in Jerusalem B.C. or seated at The Last Supper for THE LAST CRUSADE, well, then... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To give one small thing away with DIAL OF DESTINY would blow the entire cover, but basically new helmer James Mangold deliberately makes the Steven Spielberg action-directing-playbook a helluva lot noisier and way more needlessly violent: anyone helping-out the now extremely-aged and initially grouchy Jones will wind up quickly dead, making those random map-scattered characters not matter much beyond moving the bombastic adventure from one point to another — in itself an important action-packed aspect which is often done decently enough...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, franchise, harrison ford, indiana jones, james mangold, john rhys-davies, karen allen, mads mikkelsen, nazi, new, science-fiction

HARRISON FORD AS 'INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY'

Title: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Year: 2023 Grade: C For diehard defenders of the entire INDIANA JONES franchise (not just those...