In an effort this Memorial Day weekend to watch something—anything—other than The Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Kelly’s Heroes or The Green Berets for the umpteenth time, I rooted around and came up with a real overlooked gem from the late 1960s: the captivating, offbeat big-scale WWII adventure, Hannibal Brooks.
So I spent the equivalent of 20 goddamn hours (it seemed) watching Scorsese’s laughably bad, The Departed, with one of my kids, who then spent another hour or so trying to explain to me why it was so great and why I was so wrong in hating it. He, of course, failed. If I want… Read More ‘Boxcar Bertha’ (1972): Early Scorsese gangster flick isn’t good, but it’s entertaining
Amiable, mindless (…and mostly inexplicable) thick ear for fans of 70s all-star international co-productions.
Nasty, sick-humored film noir classic, from one of the genre’s leading directors.
I can’t stand my dog. It’s a whole story.
Seeing that the latest 4k blu-ray Alfred Hitchcock “ultimate collection” release was not only sold out but a tad pricey for yet another upgrade (I mean honestly…how many times am I going to buy Saboteur?), I decided to rummage around my vast subterranean DVD vault to scrounge up something that was 1) suitably “Hitchcockian,” and… Read More ‘Cold Eyes of Fear’ (1971): Ramped-up Hitchcockian suspenser sports bizarre Morricone score
So, I haven’t thought about Barbra Streisand in something like decades (I honestly thought they had found her dead at the Orange Julius in her Malibu mansion’s subterranean mini-mall). But when I saw she was browbeating asking the Academy to sing about Robert Redford at the Oscars (who didn’t die at a mall but rather… Read More ‘A Star is Born’ (1976): How do you really feel about your fans, Babs?
In my very few moments of sobriety, when the background fuzz partly clears and gives way to bits and pieces of actual audio/visual information that land, one of the constant drones I encounter lately is that I’m no longer living in a democracy (which is curious…since we’ve always been a constitutional republic), but rather a… Read More ‘Hitler’s Madman’ & ‘Hitler’s Children’ (1943): Der Fuhrer doubleheader
Here at our newly renovated Movies & Drinks west coast offices, we’re continuing our commitment to not only Black History Month (we’re only running blaxploitation flicks in our screening room where whitey gets his shit blown up—oh, wait: that’s all of them), but also to la révolution (America will never truly be a classless society… Read More ‘Black Mama, White Mama’ (1972): Dirty-minded WIP actioner delivers the goods
Is it Black History Month yet? Do they still call it that? Well, I’m starting it right now, getting inspired by gorgeous Pam Grier’s knobs, in the low-key entertainment, Sheba, Baby, the 1975 American International Pictures blaxploitation hit directed by William Girdler, and starring Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D’Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Christopher Joy, Dick… Read More ‘Sheba, Baby’ (1975): Not bad, but you’ll wish you were 9 again
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