‘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
‘The Trip’ (1967): As in, an acid trip, man
Groovy. Olive Films and M-G-M have released on Blu-ray AIP’s The Trip, the 1967 psychedelic LSD freak-out, man, from director Roger Corman, written by soon-to-be superstar Jack Nicholson, and starring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, man, Salli Sachse, Susan Strasberg, Katherine Walsh, Barboura Morris, Dick Miller, and Luana Anders.
‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ (2017): Cold, cruel, unpredictable exploitation actioner
The promise of Bone Tomahawk confirmed: Brawl in Cell Block 99 is cold, cruel, knowing genre fare.
‘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!
‘Sweet Sugar’ (1972): Phyllis Davis is both beauty & beast in WIP classic
“WARM HANDS, COLD TRIGGERS, BLAZING DEATH! AN EPIDEMIC OF MACHINE GUN MADNESS! .38 CALIBER KITTENS SPITTING DEATH AS THEY CLAW THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM! NOTHING CAN HOLD HER! NOT CHAINS! NOT BARS! NOT A MAN!”
‘Allied’ (2016): Brad Pitt returns to WWII
Or…Brad, Why You So Blue-Screened, It’s Only WWII
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