With the days getting more brisk as the sun loses its power to warm us, and the nights getting longer and more still, it wouldn’t be unexpected to have a certain melancholia creep into one’s temper. Drinking and cleaning your guns in the dark helps to shake it loose, but only so much. What one really… Read More ‘Bluebeard’ (1972): So much potential, but mostly goes to waste
Nasty, sick-humored film noir classic, from one of the genre’s leading directors.
“The murder syndicate, the vice ring, the fixed race, the shakedown, the paid gun—all made America’s winter playground the world’s capital of crime…till Miami blasted back and shoved the underworld into the sea—lock, stock, and B-Girl! The screen now dares to bring you the brutality, the excitement, the truth about the terrifying struggle between the… Read More ‘The Miami Story’ (1954): Sleazy potboiler isn’t great, but it’s very entertaining
So whatever happened to Luke after Uncle Jesse booted them Duke boys outta the farm? He became Roscoe P. Coltrane.
In a post-holiday mood for something light, I happened upon an older Warner Bros. Archive Collection disc of The Deadly Tower, NBC’s 1975 made-for-TV movie with Disney alumnus Kurt Russell starring as infamous University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman.
Dirty Harry goes giallo…in The Great White North, no less!
Violent, perverted, nihilistic noir classic.
Films like these weren’t made to be remembered. Thankfully, we’re now remembering them.
Well, maybe more like Getting Close to Getting Gotti…but no cigar from the Teflon Don.
A blood-soaked, ripping 1960s Sherlock Holmes yarn where the Baker Street detective battles history’s most notorious serial killer.
