JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxvFjyASmyo/W8LahFnBsZI/AAAAAAAA6hM/rT5rxLgoKkg4PjUluNp2Ruej-dFf6gWjACLcBGAs/s1600/MV5BNmViMDg3N2YtMTkxYy00N2RjLTg4OTQtOGE3N2ViNjU0MmRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTEwNDcxNDc%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1393" height="291" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxvFjyASmyo/W8LahFnBsZI/AAAAAAAA6hM/rT5rxLgoKkg4PjUluNp2Ruej-dFf6gWjACLcBGAs/s400/MV5BNmViMDg3N2YtMTkxYy00N2RjLTg4OTQtOGE3N2ViNjU0MmRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTEwNDcxNDc%2540._V1_.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preacher, played by Joel McCrea as Josiah Grey, pulls out his six-shooters in a noisy saloon before reading the Bible in that same, suddenly quiet one...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GQj6hRhPyhw/XA4yFWzUu6I/AAAAAAAA9DE/IbL9uaM6bbwdIW2YaZvxtHjeW9eJi3tawCLcBGAs/s1600/sss.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="523" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GQj6hRhPyhw/XA4yFWzUu6I/AAAAAAAA9DE/IbL9uaM6bbwdIW2YaZvxtHjeW9eJi3tawCLcBGAs/s400/sss.jpeg" width="165"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Insert Poster Art</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> This during a through-narration by an off-screen adult version of child actor Dean Stockwell, who plays the orphan son, John. And about fifteen minutes in, the town's old, dying doctor asks Josiah if he remembers what he and the audience could never forget... That should have been repeated a few times — his <i>thing</i>, as it were, in acquiring a captive audience at gun point...<br> <br> Although as blunt as Reverend Josiah is, there's a passive, non-violent streak despite having fought through the Civil War (side-by-side with rowdy atheist Alan Hale, whose giant eldest son is future GUNSMOKE star James Arness), which gives McCrea half a dozen stories to tell within pockets of rural lakeside scenery that director Jacques Tourneur serves throughout a creative camera that enters and exits locations, along with the townspeople who, themselves, are the sole plot, or intentional lack of. Anyone looking for shades of the action-packed WICHITA, the actor and director's third, final and greatest Western collaboration, will be disappointed (STRANGE ON HORSEBACK lies in-between). This small town's viewed with an optimistic revere of lost youth, but not without deep shades of Tourneur's signature dark and Gothic undertones...<br>

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950 The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preach...

BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbA0s5wLZyE/XAl6WMQaWNI/AAAAAAAA85o/QjbAXwoJGY01Bt1tuwQnw5gJRCBNfIA9gCLcBGAs/s1600/47359741_613080775787769_3390247480368037888_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="862" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbA0s5wLZyE/XAl6WMQaWNI/AAAAAAAA85o/QjbAXwoJGY01Bt1tuwQnw5gJRCBNfIA9gCLcBGAs/s400/47359741_613080775787769_3390247480368037888_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III, but a lot more entertaining than EXORCIST II, this first sequel of the haunted house classic suffers the same futile, completely unnecessary attempt at explaining the origins of the initial ghostly infestation... <br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hTNnOxfmpS4/XAgopeYueFI/AAAAAAAA85E/4uf_qQGTaH4R-epuapLoA7WagpM-k_8wACLcBGAs/s1600/poltergeist-3-movie-poster-1988-1020542405.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hTNnOxfmpS4/XAgopeYueFI/AAAAAAAA85E/4uf_qQGTaH4R-epuapLoA7WagpM-k_8wACLcBGAs/s320/poltergeist-3-movie-poster-1988-1020542405.jpeg" width="186"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cool P3 poster as P2 rates: *1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Vapid Indian spells with extremely bad special effects, killer tequila worms, the son's braces becoming monsters, and contrived dialogue from characters so wonderfully natural the first time around, and in a house that's not even their own: Craig T. Nelson is particularly hammy while JoBeth Williams means little to nothing. Along with a barrage of flashbacks from Steven Spielberg's classic, POLTERGEIST, we're reminded of what should've been untouched, and unburdened...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-suZpNk4A1Hg/XAimgi2myMI/AAAAAAAA85Q/oyOTGdZTkUYD66Apz_Ppx_GM-dL1L98kwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_7042-e1443744179160-1024x693.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="864" height="247" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-suZpNk4A1Hg/XAimgi2myMI/AAAAAAAA85Q/oyOTGdZTkUYD66Apz_Ppx_GM-dL1L98kwCLcBGAs/s400/IMG_7042-e1443744179160-1024x693.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trying hard for a Spielberg Close Encounters look</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> As the real burden's on Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne: the pivotal victim before now holds silly magical powers to the OTHER SIDE run by nefarious Julien Beck as "Reverend Kane", a creepy old man providing the only real chills...<br> <br> Before and after him, it's all flash and zero substance. Although our tall, wise Indian, Will Sampson from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (who literally inhales a celestial slipstream), is noted by the family patriarch as having (probably) escaped from an insane asylum. Well old Will should've stayed put — this crap is embarrassing. Even ORCA's a step up.<br>

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BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986 Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III,...

SEEKING GRINDHOUSE DIRECTOR TOBE HOOPER IN STEVEN SPIELBERG'S SUPERNATURAL HORROR 'POLTERGEIST'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2egaRzA59Qc/W9kclIV2trI/AAAAAAAA7E4/pICLLYnEjO8aK4xCdI7MyPB4hc2FJ9R7wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-29%2Bat%2B4.46.46%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1354" height="272" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2egaRzA59Qc/W9kclIV2trI/AAAAAAAA7E4/pICLLYnEjO8aK4xCdI7MyPB4hc2FJ9R7wCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-29%2Bat%2B4.46.46%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Theatrical Haunting: 1982</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> One of the most iconic images in horror film history occurs when the little blond-haired Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne places her hands on the family TV's flashing static/snowy screen after the Star Spangled Banner, and, like in real life back then, televisions would all cease programming for the night: Which is about as unfathomable to Millennials as Prohibition was to Baby Boomers and especially Generation-X...<br> <br> The latter who grew up with POLTERGEIST... And for the curious, cinema-obsessed few, trying to figure out the difference between the already renown, omnipresent style of producing creator Steven Spielberg to hired director Tobe Hooper, is like imagining the childlike-eerie Jerry Goldsmith score in the hands of Spielberg's usual composer John Williams...<br>

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SEEKING GRINDHOUSE DIRECTOR TOBE HOOPER IN STEVEN SPIELBERG'S SUPERNATURAL HORROR 'POLTERGEIST'

Year of Theatrical Haunting: 1982 One of the most iconic images in horror film history occurs when the little blond-haired Heather O'...

REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aht9G7gWd20/XAT50tUyZcI/AAAAAAAA8xg/iPzecNKi-aYhG6UM9bR_3kgf-vWVom71gCLcBGAs/s1600/22222222221.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1088" height="308" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aht9G7gWd20/XAT50tUyZcI/AAAAAAAA8xg/iPzecNKi-aYhG6UM9bR_3kgf-vWVom71gCLcBGAs/s400/22222222221.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne seeing if they're there YEAR: 1988</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III including a capable director; a cool, ominous soundtrack; and a decent rudimentary story-line that makes the build-up... of little Carol Anne now living in a glass-structured Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle... work for<i> and</i> against itself since, as the movie progresses into manic delirium, it's more of a letdown than a horrible experience from start to finish...<br> <br> By the cinema-strategic 45-minute mark (the same time it takes KING KONG to reveal himself), a lot has happened, and it's somewhat interesting. Aunt and Uncle (played by genre-vets Nancy Allen and Tom Skeritt), who also work for the building they reside in, are at a downstairs party full of spooky-looking art pieces; the cute teenage daughter (a first role for Lara Flynn Boyle) sneaked herself and her friends into the building's off-grounds swimming pool for a beer party; the late Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne just started to get <i>really scared </i>of the impending ghosts... And that last example — important and inevitable as it is — is also the problem...<br>

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REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne seeing if they're there YEAR: 1988 There are actually some good things about the maligned POLT...

KEVIN BACON & JAMIE GERTZ TEN-SPEED IN 'QUICKSILVER'

<div style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G3zA2z2Ywa0/XAMpS2qlVMI/AAAAAAAA8rc/Y6cV4fInmCUynTK-HH4brmb7PRkBt8_2wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-01%2Bat%2B4.35.27%2BPM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="1600" height="321" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G3zA2z2Ywa0/XAMpS2qlVMI/AAAAAAAA8rc/Y6cV4fInmCUynTK-HH4brmb7PRkBt8_2wCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-01%2Bat%2B4.35.27%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A very cute and underrated 80's starlet Jamie Gertz in Quicksilver</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <u>cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, Paul Rodriguez </u><br> <u>year: 1986 rating: ***1/2</u><br> <br> What could have been Kevin Bacon's COCKTAIL (or renamed <i>The Wolf of Ten-Speed</i>) is actually pretty decent...<br> <br> Bacon as a New York City Wall Street broker who loses everything in one shot, and ends up a 10-speed messenger: swerving in and out of traffic with ease. Side characters include Jami Gertz and Paul Rodriquez, not just props but with their own important stories within. But who really shines is Rudy (THE DRIVER) Ramos as a villainous drug dealer using the riders as runners, including Lawrence (then Larry) Fishburne and Gertz herself, who winds up the damsel Bacon must eventually save: all the while trying for an 11th hour comeback in his old profession.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-up6QNtpnMCE/XAMuuQZLanI/AAAAAAAA8sQ/WsZ1Lwv_qtYKuBugq7oOvVkxZ2zpz6SHQCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1600" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-up6QNtpnMCE/XAMuuQZLanI/AAAAAAAA8sQ/WsZ1Lwv_qtYKuBugq7oOvVkxZ2zpz6SHQCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz QUICKSILVER with Kevin Bacon</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5LhxkhJvL4M/XAMuuXjtlHI/AAAAAAAA8sM/lOw9g9Gk8cUC1hszYus4XK_x8NmO01-OQCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1600" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5LhxkhJvL4M/XAMuuXjtlHI/AAAAAAAA8sM/lOw9g9Gk8cUC1hszYus4XK_x8NmO01-OQCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>QUICKSILVER Jamie Gertz</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hH0VMw7eU8I/XAMuueQ9qyI/AAAAAAAA8sU/HFdrjTpvBrk-vkvx07J5kcKXA_5BUNyKQCLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hH0VMw7eU8I/XAMuueQ9qyI/AAAAAAAA8sU/HFdrjTpvBrk-vkvx07J5kcKXA_5BUNyKQCLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"My parents and Frank are THIS close" Jamie Gertz, Quicksilver</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rl9O_5y93zY/XAMsfqfcSDI/AAAAAAAA8r8/VKDyukzD4D807P77Pn5RCYsWXbxnfki4wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-01%2Bat%2B4.48.56%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1600" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rl9O_5y93zY/XAMsfqfcSDI/AAAAAAAA8r8/VKDyukzD4D807P77Pn5RCYsWXbxnfki4wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-01%2Bat%2B4.48.56%2BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz and Kevin Bacon in QUICKSILVER from 1986</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

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KEVIN BACON & JAMIE GERTZ TEN-SPEED IN 'QUICKSILVER'

A very cute and underrated 80's starlet Jamie Gertz in Quicksilver cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, ...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA OF STEPHEN KING'S 'SILVER BULLET'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DfCpZpIb8Z8/XAJzLjkekVI/AAAAAAAA8qA/Vb65pbCHoeItSvkGW59cifrs3Qv6HH1HQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-30%2Bat%2B10.41.54%2BPM%2B2%2B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1257" height="292" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DfCpZpIb8Z8/XAJzLjkekVI/AAAAAAAA8qA/Vb65pbCHoeItSvkGW59cifrs3Qv6HH1HQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-30%2Bat%2B10.41.54%2BPM%2B2%2B2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1985</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fact it <i>is very much</i> his movie based on if very loosely adapted from King's novel...<br> <br> The author especially loathed the casting of Jack Nicholson, being a too-obvious choice for a man going crazy since <i>being </i>crazy's his forte; but perhaps it was also the dialogue...<br> <br> Without characters spouting such lines as "Are you gonna make lemonade in your pants?" THE SHINING stands out from (most of the) other King adaptations during the 1980's... King's cinematic tastes were more along the lines of MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and SILVER BULLET, where other awful and downright embarrassing comments are uttered by equally banal characters...<br>

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA OF STEPHEN KING'S 'SILVER BULLET'

Year of Release: 1985 Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fa...

VANESSA FERLITO ENHANCES QT'S INFAMOUS 'DEATH PROOF'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dwoPllJWQ3g/W_-h0ypCKvI/AAAAAAAA8Xg/Q0VyH2rQXxIsZ5vzk6a4TFpvAvSPqGGlQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2018-11-28%252Bat%252B6.42.21%252BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1600" height="248" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dwoPllJWQ3g/W_-h0ypCKvI/AAAAAAAA8Xg/Q0VyH2rQXxIsZ5vzk6a4TFpvAvSPqGGlQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%252BShot%252B2018-11-28%252Bat%252B6.42.21%252BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Forbidding perspective of the DEATH PROOF Nova YEAR: 2007</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Like there are two movies in GRINDHOUSE, there are also two in the second feature, written, directed and photographed by Quentin Tarantino titled DEATH PROOF: story one is eerie, torturous, dark, bizarre, perverse, shoddy and dodgy-looking while the second <i>looks</i> far more professionally filmed but is overall, unbearably awful... <br> <br> The device of DEATH PROOF and Robert Rodriquez's co-feature, PLANET TERROR, are an abundance of deliberate aesthetic flaws: a tribute to b-movies that played so many times in low-rent "grindhouse" theaters, they wound up tarnished and with entire reels missing. In the two-parts of DEATH PROOF... which can be broken up into <i>Nighttime</i> since story one's in Texas, indoors at night, and the second, <i>Daylight</i>, occurs under a bright and rural Tennessee sun... it's one man, Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, who connects each...<br>

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VANESSA FERLITO ENHANCES QT'S INFAMOUS 'DEATH PROOF'

Forbidding perspective of the DEATH PROOF Nova YEAR: 2007 Like there are two movies in GRINDHOUSE, there are also two in the second feat...

CAMERON CROWE IGNITES MORE HIGH TIMES W/ 'THE WILD LIFE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jsTsvmYyTU4/W_-uBUzNP2I/AAAAAAAA8X4/HBf32F5FJKgGjSLJ9jyN20pt0uWwS3MtACLcBGAs/s1600/11.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="750" height="307" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jsTsvmYyTU4/W_-uBUzNP2I/AAAAAAAA8X4/HBf32F5FJKgGjSLJ9jyN20pt0uWwS3MtACLcBGAs/s400/11.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ron Wood cameo in THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> THE WILD LIFE, an underrated and unappreciated for being relatively obscure and unknown teen sex comedy, directed by Art Linson and written by FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH creator Cameron Crowe, has a somewhat facetious title...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5_h-I_CWr0/W_-v4MgWaEI/AAAAAAAA8YU/IODECQKXxKg40iq2ejwjPJUqEEklnBAzQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-29%2Bat%2B1.17.11%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="363" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5_h-I_CWr0/W_-v4MgWaEI/AAAAAAAA8YU/IODECQKXxKg40iq2ejwjPJUqEEklnBAzQCLcBGAs/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-29%2Bat%2B1.17.11%2BAM.jpeg" width="138"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>EVH mixing TWL</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Although two of the main characters — Chris Penn as Tom Drake, channeling Sean’s Jeff Spicoli in jock form, and future WEIRD SCIENCE actor Ilan-Mitchell Smith as stoner kid Jim Conrad — are rebellious enough, the buried lead goes to Jim’s big brother Bill, who, played by Eric Stoltz, moves into an apartment complex for his twenty-something independence...<br> <br> For the most part, the "wild" in the title becomes something to avoid more than embrace. But not for long because, after Tom, who works with Bill at the local bowling alley, moves in to share the rent, the pad becomes a dilapidated and eventually a partying hangout. Meanwhile, Bill... whose ex girlfriend Anita, played by Lea Thompson, is a mousy donut store employee having an affair with a muscular, married cop... is a young man without a purpose or destination...<br>

chris penn, comedy, eighties, eric stoltz, ilan-mitchell smith, jenny wright, lea thompson, teen

CAMERON CROWE IGNITES MORE HIGH TIMES W/ 'THE WILD LIFE'

Ron Wood cameo in THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984 THE WILD LIFE, an underrated and unappreciated for being relatively obscure and unknown teen ...

NICOLAS ROEG CHEATS DEATH IN VIENNA WITH 'BAD TIMING'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gMAOxQCescM/W_r8sIVcoSI/AAAAAAAA8D4/_sHhi7QdUjQx_hEOz7ey-7rP70zMJIZpACLcBGAs/s1600/46673830_607548829674297_6343469960920039424_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="955" height="293" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gMAOxQCescM/W_r8sIVcoSI/AAAAAAAA8D4/_sHhi7QdUjQx_hEOz7ey-7rP70zMJIZpACLcBGAs/s400/46673830_607548829674297_6343469960920039424_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Theresa Wright covers Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing YEAR: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> From slap-happy, smitten Film Noir dicks onward, the cinematic equivalent of a girl that's <i>just no good</i> or a "no good dame" is usually one who's simply <i>too good to be true</i>. And when a loose, liberal young lady from America — in the usually idyllic dreamland of Vienna — hooks up with a loose yet intellectual American professor who thinks he's more liberal-minded than he actually is, things go from... well in this case, worse to better to pretty bad to pretty good to downright awful... for her, that is...<br> <br> Initially taking place at a hospital emergency room where Theresa Russell's Milena is being frantically kept alive by desperate surgeons, BAD TIMING consists of flashbacks concerning her doomed romance with leading man Art Garfunkel as Alex. The most intriguing aspect of Nicolas Roeg's comparably obscure motion picture is how a dying Milena is edited into sporadic bouts of love-making, laughter, arguments, more love-making, tantrums, aspersions, more tantrums, wandering through Vienna and even a quick road trip along desert terrain, like where the late auteur shaped his future assisting David Lean on a little excursion titled LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before carving-out his own desolate territory for WALKABOUT...<br> <br>

art garfunkel, cop, crime, denholm elliott, eighties, harvey keitel, neo noir, nicolas roeg, theresa russell, thriller

NICOLAS ROEG CHEATS DEATH IN VIENNA WITH 'BAD TIMING'

Theresa Wright covers Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing YEAR: 1980 From slap-happy, smitten Film Noir dicks onward, the cinematic equivalent o...

DONNA LOCKE BATTLES 'NEON MANIACS' W/ LEILANI SARELLE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6R91o5vt_o/W-05_3LJAnI/AAAAAAAA7aY/mNUgwOpx4iMpqd-Lt8XuPZvsLM1Ret9uwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-07%2Bat%2B6.43.08%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1600" height="298" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6R91o5vt_o/W-05_3LJAnI/AAAAAAAA7aY/mNUgwOpx4iMpqd-Lt8XuPZvsLM1Ret9uwCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-07%2Bat%2B6.43.08%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Surfer Fangforth & Tribal Birdspear in NEON MANIACS year: 1986</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Right when you think the low budget 1986 horror flick NEON MANIACS is about one thing, it goes in another direction. Which is good <i>and</i> bad...<br> <br> The bad is it's an awkward and uneven film, dragging at times. The good is pretty much everything else, starting with a nighttime vanful of partying high schools students, which includes a gorgeous blonde who isn't an uptight virgin like the cliché potential sole survivor...<br> <br> That's because this isn't<i> the usual</i> Body Count Slasher where doomed teens randomly perish along the way. And her shallow girlfriends and jerky guy-friends wind up quickly massacred by the titular maniacs that resemble a creation from a comic book addict's reverie, and there's a combination of nightmarish monstrosities rolled into this lethal gang including tribal warriors and mutant samurais... <br>

body count, creature, cult, donna locke, eighties, horror, indie, leilani sarelle, marta kober, monster, slasher, thriller

DONNA LOCKE BATTLES 'NEON MANIACS' W/ LEILANI SARELLE

Surfer Fangforth & Tribal Birdspear in NEON MANIACS year: 1986 Right when you think the low budget 1986 horror flick NEON MANIACS is...

GEORGE HARDY OF 'TROLL 2' CULT LEGACY IN 'TEXAS COTTON'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fo8vXFL2r8g/W_UfY-0XOxI/AAAAAAAA7rQ/5zBNchpziu0axTzqk539N5QsSYAjDuNFgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-20%2Bat%2B11.39.07%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1236" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fo8vXFL2r8g/W_UfY-0XOxI/AAAAAAAA7rQ/5zBNchpziu0axTzqk539N5QsSYAjDuNFgCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-20%2Bat%2B11.39.07%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tiffany Shepis & George Hardy stalk Texas Cotton YEAR: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A kind of CHINATOWN on sleeping pills, and taking place in the Lone Star State, TEXAS COTTON is actually a pop culture party trick of a Modern-Western Thriller, being it stars the star of what's considered the best-worst movie ever made...<br> <br> That being George Hardy of infamous TROLL 2 niche fame, who in real life is a smiling, upbeat, jovial personality... and a dentist at that...<br> <br> So for the ultra-serious role of a veteran cop seeking clues in a small town in which he's a dedicated and stubbornly honest sheriff, Hardy is played safe, for the most part, with a one-note, dissatisfied expression of someone who not only tasted a bitter cup of morning coffee, but has grown contemptuously accustomed to it...<br>

2018, george hardy, indie, indie corner, juliette danielle, neo noir, thriller

GEORGE HARDY OF 'TROLL 2' CULT LEGACY IN 'TEXAS COTTON'

Tiffany Shepis & George Hardy stalk Texas Cotton YEAR: 2018 A kind of CHINATOWN on sleeping pills, and taking place in the Lone Star...

RACING THROUGH EARLY JACK NICHOLSON 'THE WILD RIDE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5VdL9A2fy18/W_HzKvHdnCI/AAAAAAAA7hw/Zyh5anwG2oc11AYP4zv3Lljiy4DAcfk6wCEwYBhgL/s1600/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1600" height="298" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5VdL9A2fy18/W_HzKvHdnCI/AAAAAAAA7hw/Zyh5anwG2oc11AYP4zv3Lljiy4DAcfk6wCEwYBhgL/s400/3.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A young Jack Nicholson in THE WILD RIDE Year: 1960</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Before the term "Speed Kills" referred to drugs it was for souped-up fast cars...<br> <br> There weren't any protests under the influence of psychedelia just yet; the 1950's and early 1960's were about hot rods and youth and the latter's misuse was the subject of many films, mostly cautionary tales but this one's a bit more ambiguous and peripheral...<br> <br> THE WILD RIDE stars a young Jack Nicholson as Johnny Varron. He's mostly alone and, with a jovially jazzy soundtrack, every now and then grooving smoothly into a vibe-laden skeletal strut, he's cool to watch driving along a rural road, somewhere in California. Having caused the death of a cop by driving too fast, and winning at "chicken," if more money went into the already anemic budget there'd at least be<i> some</i> urgency involved. Especially as a cop appears at random youthful hangouts, from burger joint patios to backyard parties (to the longest scene at a lakeside rocky-terrain locale), where Johnny wastes time with his friends: who don't like him very much... but nothing really scares or matters to this kid...<br>

drama, exploitation, jack nicholson, jazz score, race car, sixties, teen

RACING THROUGH EARLY JACK NICHOLSON 'THE WILD RIDE'

A young Jack Nicholson in THE WILD RIDE Year: 1960 Before the term "Speed Kills" referred to drugs it was for souped-up fast c...

TOM LAUGHLIN'S FIRST & BEST BILLY JACK 'THE BORN LOSERS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sWmhUY1vUVk/W_EOM89P9mI/AAAAAAAA7ek/5uq2YejtRzc1K-V78YDnHCC3WLLIxL4DACLcBGAs/s1600/46436808_602809760148204_1085677585360224256_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="960" height="292" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sWmhUY1vUVk/W_EOM89P9mI/AAAAAAAA7ek/5uq2YejtRzc1K-V78YDnHCC3WLLIxL4DACLcBGAs/s400/46436808_602809760148204_1085677585360224256_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BILLY JACK is one of the most embarrassing counter-culture action flicks ever made...<br> <br> Tom Laughlin in the title role as a part Indian do-gooder who defends a ridiculously "progressive" high school full of teens and preteens, singing corny protest songs off-key with beyond-novice acting disabilities, and a dated, obvious push for an older guy trying way too hard to relate to that era's flaky and spacey counter-culture youth: So it's much better, more universal and exploitation-entertaining that he defend three older, legally sexy college coeds who get raped by a gang of scruffy bikers while Billy Jack is, for most of THE BORN LOSERS, a quiet, ambiguous sort of Lonely Man character, taking his time to defend not only the girls, but himself...<br>

action, biker, bob tessier, counter-culture, elizabeth james, exploitation, jack starrett, jeff cooper, jeremy slate, kung fu, sixties, tom laughlin, william wellman

TOM LAUGHLIN'S FIRST & BEST BILLY JACK 'THE BORN LOSERS'

Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...

COENS' WESTERN ANTHOLOGY 'THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-owvOMp5V-A0/W-8F40paDhI/AAAAAAAA7c8/yRyMgmLIp_E0CSE8iQruPpdBp2IhMTdHACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-16%2Bat%2B9.29.17%2BAM%2B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1185" height="298" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-owvOMp5V-A0/W-8F40paDhI/AAAAAAAA7c8/yRyMgmLIp_E0CSE8iQruPpdBp2IhMTdHACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-11-16%2Bat%2B9.29.17%2BAM%2B2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A more fitting title for The Coen Brothers' Western Anthology <u>THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS</u> would be <i>Six Ways to Die in the West</i>. Not only is each vignette about death, but the misleading title refers to the first story and that's it. Maybe if Tim Blake Nelson's singing cowboy was the blanket narrator it would make more sense...<br> <br> Then again, he's so annoying, maybe not. In fact, SCRUGGS is one of several of the main characters that doesn't only die but deserves death: The hybrid of a THREE AMIGOS style gussied-up Amigo, Pinhead from FREAKS, Jim Varney's Ernest and Kermit the Frog, the entire point of a surprisingly lethal crooner <i>who only looks nerdy</i> steps upon the second story featuring James Franco as a scruffy bank robber, titled <u>NEAR ALGODONES</u>. In this case, Franco's outlaw loner only <i>seems</i> more resilient than a timid and chubby bank teller played by nerd's nerd Stephen Root. There's some potential in the sparse-shot, Spaghetti Western tableau, but like the first story, it ends before it really begins (and concludes with an absolutely gorgeous actress, Grace LeSueur, in a quick but very important cameo)... <br>

2018, action, anthology, coen brothers, grace lesueur, james franco, liam neeson, netflix, new, stephen root, tom waits, western

COENS' WESTERN ANTHOLOGY 'THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS'

Year of Release: 2018 A more fitting title for The Coen Brothers' Western Anthology THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS would be Six Ways ...

RAMBLING FACT-CHECKING REVIEW OF 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VN1_XXATuI8/W-ucUC14U9I/AAAAAAAA7YQ/H7PPj2yXTL82kAuOPWjz3i9YEsMSx4M7QCLcBGAs/s1600/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-film-trailer-watch-1526391283-640x427.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="508" height="328" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VN1_XXATuI8/W-ucUC14U9I/AAAAAAAA7YQ/H7PPj2yXTL82kAuOPWjz3i9YEsMSx4M7QCLcBGAs/s400/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-film-trailer-watch-1526391283-640x427.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gwilym Lee looks more the part than Rami Malek attempts it Year: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Hardcore QUEEN fans might get frustrated, or perhaps just confused, that the movie goes from the first album's "Keep Yourself Alive" to "Killer Queen," which is okay so far since QUEEN II was more progressive rock before their stardom... but then during the first tour of America, they're playing "Fat Bottomed Girls" from the latter 70's Jazz album, and that's before recording their 1975 epic "Bohemian Rhapsody" on A Night at the Opera, skipping right past the brilliant followup A Day at the Races...<br> <br> And then we're at a party hearing "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" from The Game circa 1980 before Brian May comes up with "We Will Rock You" from News of the World in 1977: and then back to The Game with "Another One Bites The Dust," ducking under the failure of the funk-themed (and actually underrated) Hot Space album, and playing the most famous track "Under Pressure" well after they supposedly broke up... which NEVER happened... And backing up to the repeated heckling of Roger Taylor's "I'm In Love With My Car," one of their greatest songs, ever...<br>

2018, biopic, music, new, rami malek

RAMBLING FACT-CHECKING REVIEW OF 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

Gwilym Lee looks more the part than Rami Malek attempts it Year: 2018 Hardcore QUEEN fans might get frustrated, or perhaps just confused...

SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM'S 'THE NEW KIDS' WITH LORI LOUGHLIN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xjgJweaappA/W-hJYJK0psI/AAAAAAAA7VU/7JuGCNCKaY4jOqKXzldv8a-gtKnWGA6swCLcBGAs/s1600/36.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1138" data-original-width="1600" height="283" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xjgJweaappA/W-hJYJK0psI/AAAAAAAA7VU/7JuGCNCKaY4jOqKXzldv8a-gtKnWGA6swCLcBGAs/s400/36.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lori Loughlin & Shannon Presby are The New Kids YEAR: 1985</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Sean S. Cunningham's THE NEW KIDS is a different kind of high school bully movie, especially as the two picked-on title characters, a brother and sister, effectively fight back early on...<br> <br> Sister elbows one guy in the gut and turns down two others flat as brother sneaks into group leader James Spader's house, knife in hand, mounting the rich blond bastard in his (Spader's) underwear...<br> <br> That's not the only unintentionally homoerotic scene. Another bully, standing next to brother at the high school boy's room urinals, turns and, scooting extremely close, crosses streams: marking territory where hundreds piss every day... A rather odd, random choice for a supposed campus tough guy to make a point, but these kids (and the whole town) beats its own extremely bizarre drum throughout...<br>

bully, drama, eighties, eric stoltz, high school, james spader, john philbin, lori loughlin, paige price, sean s. cunningham, teen, tom atkins

SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM'S 'THE NEW KIDS' WITH LORI LOUGHLIN

Lori Loughlin & Shannon Presby are The New Kids YEAR: 1985 Sean S. Cunningham's THE NEW KIDS is a different kind of high school ...

CAINE VERSES SAVALAS IN 'BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-1P7LyFZNM/W-LZFhyW_4I/AAAAAAAA7RI/OiVuPpNf8RgITPh4GvqYZOU2KXdgB003ACLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="672" height="275" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-1P7LyFZNM/W-LZFhyW_4I/AAAAAAAA7RI/OiVuPpNf8RgITPh4GvqYZOU2KXdgB003ACLcBGAs/s400/3.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Telly's vision above surface YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> While not as bad a sequel as you might have been led to believe, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is so blasphemous a followup to the classic original THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, it either begs the viewer to stop watching after less than five minutes...<br> <br> Or, if you have the patience and stamina to muddle past the muddled fifteen to twenty minute mark, after which, mirroring the first film in having a group of survivors... that didn't follow Gene Hackman the first time... head to the bottom that's really the top of the ship, upturned above water, only with less dangerous tiers, fewer obstacles, and a subplot involving Telly Savales doing what he did best before KOJAK made him a cool good guy...<br>

disaster, ensemble, jack warden, michael caine, peter boyle, sally field, sequel, shirley jones, telly savalas, veronica hamell

CAINE VERSES SAVALAS IN 'BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE'

Telly's vision above surface YEAR: 1979 While not as bad a sequel as you might have been led to believe, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTU...

ORSON WELLES LONG-AWAITED 'THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1BOci0x9IBc/W99EgvcRnDI/AAAAAAAA7QQ/1RcA-b3QlmA3qYjUbhHo8VM1CgAYqPpagCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="1260" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1BOci0x9IBc/W99EgvcRnDI/AAAAAAAA7QQ/1RcA-b3QlmA3qYjUbhHo8VM1CgAYqPpagCLcBGAs/s400/1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oda Kodar and Robert Random in the film's film YEARS: 1972-2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The anticipated Orson Welles film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND is two pictures in one...<br> <br> The first is a pseudo documentary using multiple cameras centered on veteran director Jack Hannaford, played by John Huston, at an all-night anti-wrap party where people are coming and going around a jump-cut patchwork of color and mostly black-and-white footage...<br> <br> Much like Orson's buddy, Henry Jaglom's decades-later SOMEONE TO LOVE, which was the last movie Welles appeared in (playing himself but without his name being mentioned) and George Lucas's low-budget masterpiece, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, it's a dusk-to-dawn experience, and in this case, the two-hour run time can often feel like eternity...<br>

2018, counter culture, drama, gary graver, new, norman foster, oja kodar, orson welles, peter bogdanovich, pseudo documentary, seventies, susan strasberg

ORSON WELLES LONG-AWAITED 'THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND'

Oda Kodar and Robert Random in the film's film YEARS: 1972-2018 The anticipated Orson Welles film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND is two ...

GARY KENT PLAYS A NOIRISH HEAVY IN RAY STECKLER'S 'SUPER COOL'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q_aWxrrZEGE/W9pB3Tm-_YI/AAAAAAAA7LU/ZYL9YUB443IWtGFY2Ng9romTSNPSsSWagCLcBGAs/s1600/45144595_2105173716193564_3520784872366931968_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="735" height="278" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q_aWxrrZEGE/W9pB3Tm-_YI/AAAAAAAA7LU/ZYL9YUB443IWtGFY2Ng9romTSNPSsSWagCLcBGAs/s400/45144595_2105173716193564_3520784872366931968_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Dennis Steckler and Gary Kent fight in Super Cool YEAR: 1969</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Film Noir/Gumshoe/Private Eye films have a main character wandering (and wondering) from one location to the next in search of something, or someone, or both...<br> <br> What they get along the way are a lot of names, mostly red herrings. Sexy dames and tough broads with tougher boyfriends. Fights. Gunshots. Psychedelic drugs and heroin or...<br> <br> Well the last sentence doesn't fit the Humphrey Bogart-era films, in which this was inspired all the way to director and here main star as well, Ray Dennis Steckler looking into a HIGH SIERRA poster with his image reflecting onto Bogie's. And in SUPER COOL, the real title's shown in the opening credits despite being packaged as BODY FEVER and with other names like CHEAT FOR LIFE, THE LAST ORIGINAL B MOVIE and DEADLOCKED: It's an urban/suburban odyssey of Steckler's scrawny gumshoe Charlie Smith, trying to find a missing dame, played by his real life star and perpetual ingenue Caroyln Brandt, who stole a ton of drugs (after all, she's a cat burglar who dresses like Catwoman). The best elements pit Smith against Frankie Roberts, played by Steckler's stock heavy Gary Kent (a formidable ax-murderer in THE THRILL KILLERS), who not only keeps women addicted to smack but smacks them regularly. And like those mazy Noirs of the forties and fifties, the plot is purposely convoluted: so the audience is as confused as the snoop... But the flat conclusion seems a bit forced: ending a breezy jaunt that could've gone on forever. Or at least fifteen (or ten, perhaps?) minutes longer.<br>

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GARY KENT PLAYS A NOIRISH HEAVY IN RAY STECKLER'S 'SUPER COOL'

Ray Dennis Steckler and Gary Kent fight in Super Cool YEAR: 1969 Film Noir/Gumshoe/Private Eye films have a main character wandering (an...

JOHN CARPENTER'S 'THE FOG' HAUNTS THIS HALLOWEEN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eZf2NtAVR2U/W9luNaOIooI/AAAAAAAA7HM/KG7sS_xLgWUShr7OFZ2_RpO07JS91EMlwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-31%2Bat%2B1.48.48%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="468" height="256" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eZf2NtAVR2U/W9luNaOIooI/AAAAAAAA7HM/KG7sS_xLgWUShr7OFZ2_RpO07JS91EMlwCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-31%2Bat%2B1.48.48%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Theatrical Release for The Fog: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In a way, John Carpenter's THE FOG is a zombie flick since, like those trudging, sinewy foes, the titular weather-pattern wraiths move in a slow, nightmarish pace... <br> <br> And within that titular, mobile, misty shroud are what you'd get from a good old fashion <i>ghost story</i>, which this is John Carpenter's version of, literally...<br> <br> Beginning with old man John Houseman spinning a campfire legend to kids while setting the plot in motion: Their small seaport town was founded on a deception that a ship of lepers was <i>accidentally</i> destroyed by nature — with enough gold to get the town's proverbial ball rolling. And now in its 100-year centennial celebration, the wraiths, brandishing giant hooks, blades and resembling demonic fisherman with hidden hooded faces, are after exactly six people — their own unlucky number that's<i> now</i> unlucky for the surprisingly low body-count in what's Carpenter's laidback "drinking movie" of sorts... <br>

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JOHN CARPENTER'S 'THE FOG' HAUNTS THIS HALLOWEEN

Year of Theatrical Release for The Fog: 1980 In a way, John Carpenter's THE FOG is a zombie flick since, like those trudging, sinewy...

SUTHERLAND WITH BACON & ROBERTS DIE IN 'FLATLINERS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ShUITWEVqMM/W9gPsh6NR_I/AAAAAAAA7Es/eM46hIT3_Qs89kcq_henUNs-MRDF8rlpACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-28%2Bat%2B8.14.21%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1000" height="291" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ShUITWEVqMM/W9gPsh6NR_I/AAAAAAAA7Es/eM46hIT3_Qs89kcq_henUNs-MRDF8rlpACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-28%2Bat%2B8.14.21%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1990</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The reason FLATLINERS seems like a Brat Pack flick despite having none of those particular actors on board is because the director was also behind the pivotal pack-classic, ST. ELMO'S FIRE... And Joel Schumacher has a style of filming great-looking actors in an ethereal glow, which literally fits here being they choose to die and come back again i.e. playing God with their own bodies... <br> <br> Taking place in and around various classrooms and backrooms of some kind of steely, dystopic medical school, the shadow-filled, icky-green sets seem as if a neon Gothic explosion blew out most of the lights and took down half the equipment, like Dr. Frankenstein's lab dreamed-up by Tim Burton. Which is what FLATLINERS is going for aesthetically. But it turned out more like a glossy music video, especially the choppy extreme-closeups...<br>

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SUTHERLAND WITH BACON & ROBERTS DIE IN 'FLATLINERS'

Year of Release: 1990 The reason FLATLINERS seems like a Brat Pack flick despite having none of those particular actors on board is beca...

HORROR NOIR RETROSPECTIVE OF JOE DANTE'S 'THE HOWLING'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YSbXt5HEKUk/W9U33PSV5VI/AAAAAAAA6-g/nhG_Lli870EMei8OTXXI3083vdZImAaeACLcBGAs/s1600/5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1600" height="283" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YSbXt5HEKUk/W9U33PSV5VI/AAAAAAAA6-g/nhG_Lli870EMei8OTXXI3083vdZImAaeACLcBGAs/s400/5.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Belinda Balaski snooping around THE HOWLING Year: 1981</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> “I kind of cross this line where... I see it whether it's really there or not,” actress Dee Wallace wrote in a Cult Film Freak interview. “Kind of like the monster in the closet when we're little… You just know it's there, so it is.”<br> <br> And that’s how Joe Dante’s THE HOWLING begins, without seeing too much of anything – more of a creepy Film Noir look than outright horror flick as Dee Wallace’s Karen White, an intrepid anchorwoman at a local news station, has planned to meet a mysterious man named Eddie Quist somewhere within the shadowy downtown city streets... And what Karen witnesses, kept from the audience, really sticks with her... Thus the investigation trades off to snoopy reporter Terry Fisher, played by versatile character-actress Belinda Balaski, who, as a doomed camp counselor in Dante’s PIRANHA a few years earlier, resulted in a memorable death scene...<br>

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HORROR NOIR RETROSPECTIVE OF JOE DANTE'S 'THE HOWLING'

Belinda Balaski snooping around THE HOWLING Year: 1981 “I kind of cross this line where... I see it whether it's really there or no...