‘The Adventures of the Wilderness Family’ (1975): City life intolerable? Watch this exciting bedtime story for kids
Entertaining, well-crafted G-rated family adventure…the kind Disney used to make before becoming Satan’s toilet brush.
Tag: drama
‘Payday’ (1973): A low profile gem, Rip Torn’s finest movie performance
Sad news: that multi-talented actor, Rip Torn, passed away the other day at 88 years old. Most of the news items I read led off with his well-remembered stint on The Larry Sanders Show, but I didn’t see any mentions of his best performance: 1973’s country drama, Payday.
‘Thank God It’s Friday’ (1978): Sanitized Hollywood disco shenanigans
Disney-fied PG-rated hijinks at a distressingly chaste, mildly drug-fueled, not-nearly-as-gay-as-we-expected late 1970s Hollywood disco!
‘Payback’ (1997): Mary Tyler Moore & Ed Asner star in ill-fated reunion
Good ‘ol Mare. I had to poke around all the way up into the 1990s to find a TV movie where Mary Tyler Moore is menaced (apparently she was too good to do cheap actioners during her series’ heyday, unlike Cloris Leachman in 1973’s Dying Room Only & Valerie Harper in 1977’s Night Terror): ABC’s… Read More ‘Payback’ (1997): Mary Tyler Moore & Ed Asner star in ill-fated reunion
‘All Neat in Black Stockings’ (1969): Little, anonymous, & flat-out brilliant
Bawdy late 60s “Swinging London” comedy with plenty of dishy birds for you plonkers…whoa, wait a minute—it’s depressing as hell.
‘The Klansman’ (1974): A must-see for lovers of deeply wrong moviemaking
One of the holy grails of trash exploitation, finally available uncut!
‘Allied’ (2016): Brad Pitt returns to WWII
Or…Brad, Why You So Blue-Screened, It’s Only WWII
