‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ (1973): Spectacular-looking movie, but is it strictly for the birds?
Far out, birdbrain.
Tag: Warner Archive
‘Beyond the Poseidon Adventure’ (1979): Can disaster epics afford to be this boring?
This unjoyful, remarkably inept exercise in tired disaster conventions scuttled before the anchor was even raised.
‘The Slams’ (1973): Jim Brown kicks ass in violent prison exploiter
What better counterpoint to all that verkakte “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” noise than a violent, nasty blaxploitation/prison epic, starring big, bad Jim Brown?
‘The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean’ (1972): A big, beautiful mess of a Western
“For Texas and Miss Lillie!”
‘The Swarm’ (1978): Is Irwin Allen’s disaster pic one of the worst movies ever made?
“The Swarm is coming!” I wish I could somehow convey how imperative and compelling and flat-out exciting those words were to me, way back in 1978, when they were so dramatically intoned in the trailer that seemed to pop up constantly on TV and at every other movie I went to that winter and spring.… Read More ‘The Swarm’ (1978): Is Irwin Allen’s disaster pic one of the worst movies ever made?
‘Zero Hour!’ (1957), ‘Hot Rods to Hell’ (1967), ‘Skyjacked’ (1972): A terrorized travelers triple feature
So the other day I had to take out an unsecured loan to put gas in my lawnmower, and it made me think of my old man, who whenever he lent me his ’81 Caprice Classic always stipulated I had to fill the tank…which he would first run dry (How’s it goin’ down there, Dad? Hot… Read More ‘Zero Hour!’ (1957), ‘Hot Rods to Hell’ (1967), ‘Skyjacked’ (1972): A terrorized travelers triple feature
‘Follow Me Quietly’ (1949): Creepy, unsettling noir is worth revisiting
Strange, unsettling film noir mystery, with a disturbing subtext.
‘The Deadly Tower’ (1975): True crime thriller brings Texas killer to the screen
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.
‘Wall of Noise’ (1963) & ‘A Fever in the Blood’ (1961): A TV-star big-screen twin bill
Will the studio-sanctioned double-feature ever come back?
‘The Beasts are On the Streets’ (1978): A family-friendly disaster epic from Hanna-Barbera
Well…if everything else seems to be a disaster right now, it couldn’t hurt to watch some disaster flicks, now could it?
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