‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ (1976): Winning teen romance is impossibly hopeful
Uh…they couldn’t just adopt?
Tag: 1970s
‘Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure’ (1979): Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing
Attention! Attention fellow American lockdown inmates!
‘Heroes’ (1977): Is it comedy, romance, or drama?
Long after the Viet Cong was gone, Gidget and the Fonz got it on!
‘You’ll Like My Mother’ (1972): An expertly-constructed, smartly-performed thriller
Sharp, atmospheric, well-mounted little suspense thriller, with socko performances.
‘Breaker! Breaker!’ (1977): A big 10-4 and a happy birthday, Chuck Norris!
Okay, Cannon Films and Total Gym fanatics, you know what today is: your God’s birthday.
‘Dillinger’ (1973): A rowdy, cynical, American tall tale
Bloody, funny, shoe leather-hard American tall tale.
‘Shadows in an Empty Room’ (1976): You ready for this un-PC craziness? We don’t think you are
Dirty Harry goes giallo…in The Great White North, no less!
‘A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’ (1971): Notorious giallo classic by Lucio Fulci
A dreamy, sensuous, and deliciously “off” Italian giallo classic.
‘White Line Fever’ (1975): Action-packed, politically confused exploiter
Crashing 70s trucker action, with handsome knothead Jan-Michael Vincent gear-jammin’ it down the road of exploitation thrills and thoroughly confused politics.
‘The Terminal Man’ (1974): Bleak foreshadowing of today’s cold, tech-obsessed world
Cold, impersonal, distant Frankenstein re-imagining―and a fairly perverse jab at its horror/suspense genre conventions.
