11/17/2024

RUSHING THROUGH JOHN SCHLESINGER'S 'HONKY TONK FREEWAY'

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Title: HONKY TONK FREEWAY Year: 1981 Rating: **** John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY has two composers: Elmer Bernstein doing his usu...
11/16/2024

LANCE GUEST WITH ROBERT PRESTON IN 'THE LAST STARFIGHTER'

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Title: THE LAST STARFIGHTER Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 The connection of THREE AMIGOS, GALAXY QUEST and TROPIC THUNDER... of actors thinking ...
11/12/2024

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

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Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss...
11/11/2024

ROBERT FOXWORTH BEARS JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'PROPHECY'

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Title: PROPHECY Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 At one point, when idealistic city doctor Robert Foxworthy and quiet musician wife Taila Shire are...
11/03/2024

DARRELL HOWE WITH JUDY HOWARD IN 'ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO'

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Judy Howard in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO Year: 1962 Rating: **** When token investigator Michael Granger is kind of affably/subtly questioning loc...
11/02/2024

MARLON BRANDO & VAL KILMER RUIN 'THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU'

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Val Kilmer in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Year: 1996 Rating: ** As the story goes, original director and screenwriter Richard Stanley was fired...
10/31/2024

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM 'THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER'

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Title: THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER Year: 1965 Camp Value: *** One of those b-movies that's so extremely/noticeably low budget it'...
10/29/2024

JODY FAIR AND JUDY HOWARD IN 'GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW'

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Year: 1959 Rating: **** Sequel to a franchise b-movie HOT CAR GANG that hardly involved a gang and with only two young actors returning in t...
10/28/2024

TOM CONWAY TEAMS WITH HILLARY BROOKE IN 'CONFIDENCE GIRL'

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Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 You know if a movie about confidence men aka con men (or in this case an ironic twist-titled CONFIDENCE GIRL) is b...
10/27/2024

JOSEPH BOTTOMS, LANA CLARKSON & KEIR DULLEA IN 'BLIND DATE'

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Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 If it weren't for the Sony Walkman that Joseph Bottoms listens to in order to mir...
10/22/2024

RALPH BAKSHI BEGNNING WITH ROBERT CRUMB'S 'FRITZ THE CAT'

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Title: FRITZ THE CAT Year: 1971 Rating: ** Ralph Bakshi progressed from children's cartoons in the 1960's into adapting underground ...
10/21/2024

RALPH BAKSHI'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL MELODRAMA 'AMERICAN POP'

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Marya Small (now Mews Small) in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP Year: 1981 Rating: ** What's considered animation director Ralph Bakshi&...
10/20/2024

RALPH BAKSHI'S ANIMATED APOCALYPTIC-FANTASY 'WIZARDS'

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Title: WIZARDS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Animation director Ralph Bakshi's infamously rushed/ill-conceived LORD OF THE RINGS , combining ...
10/17/2024

BYRON HASKIN DIRECTS PAUL MANTEE 'ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS'

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Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 A low-budget science-fiction film by super-low-budget producer Aubrey Schenck and ...
10/13/2024

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

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Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 After HEAVY TRAFFIC where cult director Ralph Bakshi inser...

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

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Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: **** Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that ...
10/12/2024

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

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Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: *** Often compared to GREASE , being that the main character... a suave/strutting...
10/11/2024

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

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Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illus...
10/10/2024

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

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Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: ** As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki...
10/08/2024

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

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Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: **** The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology w...
10/04/2024

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

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Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2 In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies...
10/03/2024

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

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Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: **** Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step...
10/02/2024

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

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Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: **** John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aest...
10/01/2024

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

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Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordo...
9/29/2024

KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE

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Year: 1957 Rating: ** There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster fl...
9/26/2024

CAREN KAYE MAKES FOR AN EXQUISITE 'MY TUTOR' EXPERIENCE

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Caren Kaye in MY TUTOR Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 Another 1980's sex-comedy combining various attempts at awkward teens trying to lose th...
9/25/2024

REGENERATING THROUGHOUT 'THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE'

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Orson Welles heads THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE Year: 1986 Rating: **** Critics unfairly blasted THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIE as nothing but a prol...
9/24/2024

MARK HAMILL VS KIM MILFORD THROUGHOUT 'CORVETTE SUMMER'

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Title: CORVETTE SUMMER aka AMOR SOBRE RUEDAS translated LOVE ON WHEELS Year: 1978 Rating: **** Too mainstream for drive-in/exploitation and ...
9/23/2024

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

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Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists ...
9/15/2024

BURT REYNOLDS, CANDACE BERGEN, JILL CLAYBURGH 'STARTING OVER'

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Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** There are two things that connect the romantic-comedy STARTIN...
9/14/2024

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

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Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING was a cross between the p...
9/13/2024

JOCK MAHONEY VS WOODY STRODE 'TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES'

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Title: TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 There's a TARZAN curse when you look into the actors: Johnny Weismuller wa...