‘Seasons of the Heart’ (1994): Awful people attempt good deeds in TV movie
Sometimes you just need some soap-opera suds to kick off the holidays.
Tag: TV Movies
‘Disaster on the Coastliner’ (1979): It’s Shatner to the rescue when Amtrak goes off the rails
So. It’s getting late and I don’t want to screw around. I don’t want “good” TV or “fine television” (blech), and I don’t want what everyone else wants, like GOT (this country, no question, is doomed). I want old timey stuff from my youth, with grown-up actors and actresses whom I recognize, in plots I… Read More ‘Disaster on the Coastliner’ (1979): It’s Shatner to the rescue when Amtrak goes off the rails
‘The Eyes of Charles Sand’ (1972): Dark, rainy day viewing for vintage TV-movie lovers
Flashy but familiar, bait-and-switch ABC Movie of the Week entry.
‘Night Terror’ (1977): Valerie Harper stars in tense suspenser
Remember Rhoda, Mary’s best friend and upstairs neighbor on The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Did you know that she, along with her costars, took a suspenseful detour into thriller-movie territory, to spice things up?
‘Sudden Fury: A Family Torn Apart’ (1993): True crime thriller with Neil Patrick Harris
Mill Creek Entertainment has released a DVD and digital download combo pack of Sudden Fury: A Family Torn Apart, the true-crime made-for-TV movie that originally aired on NBC back in November, 1993. “Dramatized” (uh oh…) from Leslie Walker’s non-fiction book, Sudden Fury, which detailed the 1984 killings of Bob and Kay Swartz by their adopted… Read More ‘Sudden Fury: A Family Torn Apart’ (1993): True crime thriller with Neil Patrick Harris
‘The Legend of Lizzie Borden’ (1975): Haunting, dreamy, crazy, brilliant!
Haunting, dreamy, crazy nightmare thrills. There’s a reason I and several million other people my age and older remember so well The Legend of Lizzie Borden, the 1975 ABC made-for-TV splatter shocker: it’s flat-out brilliant.
‘The Possessed’ (1977): Pre-superstar Harrison Ford does TV horror
Not being able to decide whether or not I was going to catch the new Harrison Ford Blade Runner 2049 sci-fi opus this week (the original was such a revelatory experience for me when I saw it in a deserted theater back in ’82, I can’t help but feel I’m going to sully that memory… Read More ‘The Possessed’ (1977): Pre-superstar Harrison Ford does TV horror
