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Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2018 / No comments / adam storke , adaptation , gary sinise , miguel ferrer , miniseries , molly ringwald , nineties , post-apocalyptic , road movie , rob lowe , stephen king , thriller , TV , virus

TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'THE STAND' BY STEPHEN KING

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Adam Storke sings a 60's tune while nifty fx occur behind Year: 1994</u></td></tr>
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TV Miniseries from the 1990's based on Stephen King's "The World Will End with a Whimper not a Bang" novel combined with a non-zombie yet still<i> formidable corpses within a dead world</i> tale that ultimately leads to... THE STAND...<br>
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About the survivors of a deadly plague that eventually band together around shared dreams of an old black Christian lady on a farm, except a few chosen rotten apples including a jealous teenage virgin, a sexy pill popper, and a spastic psychopath — two are female, and both... especially a fiendishly sympathetic Laura San Giacomo as this baby's targeted Rosemary... fare better and more realistic than Molly Ringwald's rather bland performance as a sweet, knocked-up ingenue despite her eventual leading man Gary Sinise's sublime turn as a tough silent-type Texan who's one of the coolest heroes in TV miniseries history. When some story-lines drag beyond their limit, it's always Gary's anchoring Stu Redman who puts the puzzle back together... but in the smooth, cool hero department, he's got some beyond-capable assistance... <br>

adam storke, adaptation, gary sinise, miguel ferrer, miniseries, molly ringwald, nineties, post-apocalyptic, road movie, rob lowe, stephen king, thriller, TV, virus

TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'THE STAND' BY STEPHEN KING

Adam Storke sings a 60's tune while nifty fx occur behind Year: 1994 TV Miniseries from the 1990's based on Stephen King's &...

MIKA SAEGUSA ERA GODZILLA ONE: GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Megumi Odaka's Mika Saegusa sees inside of monsters YEAR: 1989 </u></td></tr>
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Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the head of a red rose would be one of the best of the entire franchise, dating back from the origins, but it's true... GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE is also the first of five co-starring Japanese starlet Megumi Odaka as Miki Saegusa,  bringing to light another miracle...<br>
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That a young, cute, vulnerable and sympathetic Japanese girl (with upturned leafy ears giving her a unique koala bear pixie look), gifted with ESP, could actually read Godzilla's mind without it being too lame or corny: She's what Amy Irving is to THE FURY (think CARRIE with powers in check). And her four other "Heisei Godzilla" films (later distributed by Miramax on awesomely inexpensive blu rays) lasted throughout the entire 1990's...<br>

action, creature, disaster, eighties, godzilla, japanese, megumi odaka, science-fiction

MIKA SAEGUSA ERA GODZILLA ONE: GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE

Megumi Odaka's Mika Saegusa sees inside of monsters YEAR: 1989 Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the h...

JON VOIGHT & DUSTIN HOFFMAN STAR IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Criterion Artwork for the Midnight Cowboy Blu Ray & DVD Year: 1969</u></td></tr>
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A simplistic but mostly naive young man from Texas, Joe Buck, ironically becomes a cowboy<i> after</i> deciding to leave his hometown, headed to the last place that that kind of legendary hero exists, New York City, as every frame of MIDNIGHT COWBOY means something: starting from a sunlit drive-in to a public shower where Joe drops the soap... <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rating; *****</u></td></tr>
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An obvious nod for an inevitable detour within a disturbing, almost sadistic character-driven story that's bright and cheerful otherwise, but that's when centered narrowly on Jon Voight's title character, who shows enough humanity and vulnerability in what he's hiding as first-billed sidekick Dustin Hoffman's crippled con-man hustler, Ratso Rizzo, appears to be right upfront: a tattered and swarthy, street savvy con-man who walks in a permanent, unguided shuffle that, alongside the handsome, tall blond Texan, make for perhaps the most bizarre odd couple of top-grade exploitation cinema: in one of the most well-deserved films to win Best Director (for John Schlesinger) and Best Picture (although another movie cowboy would take the Best Actor)...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Some mean Meantime of Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck</u></td></tr>
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Curbing a seemingly endless gust of serious and often painstaking hard luck roadblocks are genuinely funny moments centered on and around the unlikely duo, teamed-up after what feels like fully-conceived short films...<br>
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Including the initial bus trip; a clumsy attempt at hustling; and the doomed yet determined partnership before a sharp, frostbit winter cuts into Ratso's idyllic reverie of sunny Florida while the desperate, starving creature of a bleak and mysterious New York City (even haunting under a heavy dose of psychedelia) formidably reigns. By the end, what the audience has experienced, and the characters suffered through, can't reach the unique form of dark, tangible reality that no fiction (on screen or print) has yet to challenge, or equal: A timeless celebration of futile optimism.
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buddy, classic, drama, drug culture, dustin hoffman, jon voight, m. emmett walsh, oscar, sixties

JON VOIGHT & DUSTIN HOFFMAN STAR IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'

Criterion Artwork for the Midnight Cowboy Blu Ray & DVD Year: 1969 A simplistic but mostly naive young man from Texas, Joe Buck, iro...

BELATED OPENING-WEEKEND REVIEW OF 'HOTEL ARTEMIS'

2018, jeff goldblum, jodie foster, neo noir, new, science-fiction, thriller

BELATED OPENING-WEEKEND REVIEW OF 'HOTEL ARTEMIS'

But an extremely cool retro paperback poster artwork YEAR: 2018 Many have compared HOTEL ARTEMIS to JOHN WICK because of the hotel for c...

REASONS AND/OR THEORIES FOR THE 'SOLO' CATASTROPHE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>SOLO didn't even "Fly Casual" at the box office: We love THIS Han Solo </u></td></tr>
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THE LAST JEDI backlash is at an all-time peak, five months after its financially successful yet fan abhorred, controversial release, and it's because SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY is failing, and has failed, and could ultimately lose over fifty-million dollars for Lucasfilm/Disney...<br>
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But at this point, the blaming of the JEDI scapegoat is an excuse that's getting old. Hell, even Disney faults Rian Johnson's Episode VIII for their standalone Han Solo prequel tanking. Ironically, they promised Johnson an entire trilogy for making the movie that's supposedly killing <i>this </i>one. With all that going against THE LAST JEDI, how can the mysterious other-galaxy saga remain free from the trash compactor? <br>

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REASONS AND/OR THEORIES FOR THE 'SOLO' CATASTROPHE

SOLO didn't even "Fly Casual" at the box office: We love THIS Han Solo THE LAST JEDI backlash is at an all-time peak, five...

FORGOTTEN ANG LEE MARVEL W/ UNIVERSAL 'HULK' PICTURE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hulk crashes out of The Sting at Victory Drive-In HULK Year: 2003</u></td></tr>
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The early days of modern cinema Marvel when there were no constant one-liners ala Tony Starkasm... Yes, Robert Downey Jr. <i>is</i> funny but soon enough, every damn superhero had to share in his constantly glib persona. Even the recent Star Wars movies use it. Lighten up all the lighting up already... Let's get back to basics...<br>
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HULK, the first big screen solo effort, is underrated and pretty good in several ways, taking forty-two minutes until Eric Bana, as scientist Bruce Banner... with the inevitable rage built-in from birth... turns into what Sam Elliott's tough General calls "The Big Man." Taking so much time for the payoff might seem crazy to some, but even KING KONG waited forty-eight minutes to reveal <i>that</i> titular beast. The reason for this is... Suspense: Thankfully, until the long-drawn climax pitting the military verses a sunny desert leaping Hulk (backed by Danny Elfman's worst score), he's kept mostly in the dark, outside, or within softly-lit interiors: like the laboratory he breaks out of to start the ball rolling. While the side-characters, including ingenue Jennifer Connelly and smarmy villain Josh Lucas, aren't altogether fleshed-out, Bana plays Banner interestingly enough so the transformations matter. Also let it be noted that he and Mark Ruffalo (AVENGERS) share a slight swarthy resemblance to the only human to play the creature: the iconic Lou Ferrigno...  <br>

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FORGOTTEN ANG LEE MARVEL W/ UNIVERSAL 'HULK' PICTURE

Hulk crashes out of The Sting at Victory Drive-In HULK Year: 2003 The early days of modern cinema Marvel when there were no constant one...

AL PACINO SPEEDS UP TO SLOW DOWN IN 'BOBBY DEERFIELD'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1977 Rating: ***</u></td></tr>
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Not a race car movie, but one that centers on a famous driver... The 
man, BOBBY DEERFIELD, especially after a fatal accident by another 
driver in <i>his</i> car, simply doesn't care much for humanity or even 
his own family, and only gets a personality after meeting, and then 
traveling aimlessly with, a beautiful woman in a hospital. But his real 
turnaround occurs after discovering, by accident, this mystery woman's 
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Thus the free-spirited, spontaneous, sometimes 
rambling and obnoxious, insecure confidence of Marthe Keller's 
personality makes sense after this revelation, as does the film: Which 
still meanders quite a bit, seeming more like a collection of lovely 
European snapshots than a flowing motion picture; this is his reposeful and torturous, romantic and melancholy, English-speaking Foreign Film. And you've 
heard of pretty boy actors having to prove their acting talents? Well 
for Pacino, this is the polar opposite. But he has some good dramatic 
moments... after all, he <i>is</i> Al Pacino.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Meaningless Trivia: In Misery with Pacino's Godfather bro, James Caan, a Bobby Deerfield VHS can be seen in a store</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bobby Deerfield costarring Marthe Keller could be a romantic melodramatic underrated motion picture, or...</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Or an answer to sleeping pills... it's up to the viewer, and when they view it... But wake up, he's about to do a Mae West impression</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>This shot doesn't sum up Bobby Deerfield directed by Sydney Pollock, instead...</u></td></tr>
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al pacino, drama, marthe keller, race car, romance, seventies, sport

AL PACINO SPEEDS UP TO SLOW DOWN IN 'BOBBY DEERFIELD'

Year of Release: 1977 Rating: *** Not a race car movie, but one that centers on a famous driver... The man, BOBBY DEERFIELD, especially...

JIM KELLY IN 'THE TATTOO CONNECTON' AJKA 'BLACK BELT JONES 2'

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JIM KELLY IN 'THE TATTOO CONNECTON' AJKA 'BLACK BELT JONES 2'

Groovy title sequence YEAR of RELEASE: 1978 Not a sequel to BLACK BELT JONES despite the misleading alternative title, which HOT POTATO ...

DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE FILM & TV MINISERIES SEQUEL

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>It's about time the Firestarter Thermometer becomes devilishly infamous</u></td></tr>
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<u>ORIGINAL THEATRICAL</u>: During what looks like a five-dollar opening credit sequence, the synth score by Tangerine Dream, a hybrid of Pink Floyd and John Carpenter, provides a silk hat on a...<br>
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Well FIRESTARTER isn't exactly (or entirely) a pig: But based on a novel by Stephen King, it's misleading for horror fans as a droning Science-Fiction thriller without wraiths or psychopaths but government agents with black suits, like the third HALLOWEEN compared to its famous predecessors involving tangible killer ghost Michael Myers. Although, directed by capable b-movie/drive-in staple, Mark L. Lester, it's got a terrific look, produced by movie mogul Dino De Laurentis — plus the cast of otherwise great actors turning in good-enough performances: Particularly young lead, Charlie (short for Charlene), played by the ET-famous Drew Barrymore, who displays the right amount of possessive power and, most important, empathetic vulnerability in a picture that feels like a dark espionage mated with a pulpy and Gothic, coming-of-age melodrama — using random bouts of cringe-worthy dialogue along with a sporadic overdose of technical exposition...<br>

david keith, dennis hopper, drew barrymore, horror, malcolm mcdowell, mark l. lester, miniseries, science-fiction, sequel, TV, zeroes

DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE FILM & TV MINISERIES SEQUEL

It's about time the Firestarter Thermometer becomes devilishly infamous ORIGINAL THEATRICAL : During what looks like a five-dollar o...

RYAN O'NEAL IN 'THE BIG BOUNCE' WITH LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The full-lipped Theron/Jolie of her time, only better YEAR: 1969</u></td></tr>
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If there's ever been a movie ruined by a soundtrack, it's THE BIG BOUNCE: a late-sixties balance of sunny sea-blue and  rural-gray tones, adapted from Elmore Leonard's Neo Noir novel beginning with a convict bashing an inmate's face with a baseball bat, and then, on parole and stuck within the small town, he's both feared and revered...<br />
<br />
Depending who's around, and where he's at, and, while still in the film's rushed, rudimentary stages, he seeks work for a dishonest rancher who exploits cucumber farm workers. But with help from a particular friend, he lands a soft job as a maintenance man at a beach side motel, where so much potential, pitting Ryan O'Neal against one of the sexiest sirens ever, (his then real-life wife and former PEYTON PLACE co-star) Leigh Taylor-Young, who's the buried lead here: A seemingly sophisticated femme-fatale... She's bad news and big trouble...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Seven Arts Warner Shield BOUNCE SCORE: **1/2</u></td></tr>
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Author Elmore Leonard said all adaptations before GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN never got it... But maybe, in critiquing BIG BOUNCE piecemeal, he saw a dark ray of hope in Taylor-Young's Nancy Barker, both effectively sinister and sexy: The aforementioned crappy music, arranged by the usually capable Tony Curb, sounds like The Beach Boys possessed by folk singers drowning-out an otherwise groovy Jack Nitzsche-like surf music score — one particularly godawful track repeats Nancy's name over and over... killing what edge her character's supposed to have.<br />
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But it's not all that bad: the overall vibe is lean and edgy, and there are terrific moments when Jack and Nancy hang out, night and day, discussing an upcoming heist, and possible murder. But Jack spends too much time with his old-timer friend: Van Heflin's so overly (and quickly) helpful to Jack's plight, he hardly has any obstacles in his way, or rungs to climb, or corners to paint himself out of. It's really all about Leigh Taylor-Young being bad and getting worse, and possibly becoming lethal while keeping her ridiculously beautiful poker face intact. But really, THE BIG BOUNCE needs our hero to take more chances, early on, to live up to his manipulative competition. Though it wouldn't be the first time Ryan O'Neal would get what was supposedly <i>his</i> movie stolen by a close relative. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Leigh Taylor-Young The Big Bounce Ryan O'Neal Leigh Taylor-Young Ryan O'Neal The Big Bounce</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sign in Van Heflin's room sums him up though he doesn't speak politically, and he's a cool right winger, very odd for Hollywood</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leigh Taylor-Young takes in the sun and steals what she can of THE BIG BOUNCE</td></tr>
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elmore leonard, lee grant, leigh taylor-young, neo noir, robert webber, ryan o'neal, sixties, van heflin

RYAN O'NEAL IN 'THE BIG BOUNCE' WITH LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG

The full-lipped Theron/Jolie of her time, only better YEAR: 1969 If there's ever been a movie ruined by a soundtrack, it's THE B...

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTS RAY LIOTTA IN 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Liotta's the rogue cop in Unlawful Entry YEAR: 1992</u></td></tr>
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Some former student directors of low-budget movie-producing icon Roger Corman, no matter how big they got, still held onto an economic style liken to the straightforward simplicity of an old school marquee b-movie, and Jonathan Kaplan was one of the A-students...<br>
<br>
Although his best (or most well known) movies came after "graduation" with vehicles such as the cult teen angst rebellion classic, OVER THE EDGE, and then guiding Jodie Foster's first Oscar-winning role in the more conventional THE ACCUSED and later on, using the actor from fellow Cormon crony Jonathan Demme (who directed Foster's second big win) for his risque road journey SOMETHING WILD: Enter GOODFELLAS' then-newly-famous Ray Liotta  in the somewhat mainstream exploitation flick UNLAWFUL ENTRY (the main theme sounding strangely like the romantic and/or reposeful theme from STAR WARS)...<br>

cop, dick miller, harry northup, jonathan kaplan, ken lerner, kurt russell, madeline stowe, ray liotta, roger e. mosley, suspense, thriller

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTS RAY LIOTTA IN 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'

Ray Liotta's the rogue cop in Unlawful Entry YEAR: 1992 Some former student directors of low-budget movie-producing icon Roger Corma...

THREE PARAGRAPHS ON THE EPIC OF SCHINDLER'S LIST

liam neeson, nineties, ralph fiennes, steven spielberg, war

THREE PARAGRAPHS ON THE EPIC OF SCHINDLER'S LIST

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List YEAR: 1993 Especially before it gets really moving and downright tear-jerking, parti...

JACK BENNY AND CAROL LOMBARD IN 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1942 Score: ****</u></td></tr>
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Ernst Lubitsch takes a 
complicated plot and with an easygoing acting style of the performers 
under tightly-wound direction, headed by Jack Benny and Carol 
Lombard, it flows from beginning to end as the ups and downs, curves, 
twists and turns provide both subtle humor and edgy suspense, centering on
 a group of stage actors in Poland before and during the Nazi takeover on the boot-heels of World War II: They must trick their antagonists into thinking 
Benny... who plays a hammy actor (exactly the opposite of himself)... is a scientist who's a traitor to the 
good guys and... well it really doesn't matter because TO BE OR NOT TO 
BE has to be seen and concentrated on for the plot to make clear and interesting (as well as intriguing) sense...<br>
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More or less a con artist caper movie, and unlike the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/05/TBONTBee.html">Mel Brooks remake</a>, the Germans, while not brilliant, are  genuinely
imposing to instill enough danger for all the verbal laps to 
matter beyond hitting punchlines at the right moment... Although everything does rely on the actors-within-the-movie hitting their own marks for the ruse to work, hence the title taken after a 
pivotal line from William Shakespeare's Hamlet that, if spoken by a novice stage 
performer, can hinder the entire show (after all, <i>that is </i>the question). The fun's watching Benny trying to outdo 
his character's own lack of talent while Lombard is the real trickster, weaving in and out of both the bad guys and the token young pretty boy (Robert Stack): If anyone on board has the most work, it's her. 
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comedy, ernst lubitsch, forties, jack benny, robert stack, war, world war II

JACK BENNY AND CAROL LOMBARD IN 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

Year of Release: 1942 Score: **** Ernst Lubitsch takes a complicated plot and with an easygoing acting style of the performers under t...

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF 'SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY'

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As is already known, Ron Howard had the task of correcting while directing SOLO — replacing the original filmmakers whose take was too comedic, or something that didn't gel with Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence (partnered with son Jonathan) Kasdan...<br>
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Maybe those poor young filmmakers, who made the popular kid flicks LEGO MOVIE and CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, put too much color into a story meant to be edgy and dark. If so, Ron Howard sure did darken it up, and not in a good BLADE RUNNER gloomy industrial kind of way. It's like looking outside a dirty window — at more dirt. And this galaxy doesn't seem all that far, far away like a fantasy-driven STAR WARS installment should. With human characters so immensely droll and mundane, every time the usual weird-looking alien pops up, it seems out of place and, for lack of a deeper, more insightful description, stupid.   <br>

2018, action, adventure, alden ehrenreich, donald glover, emilia clarke, fantasy, franchise, new, ron howard, science-fiction, star wars, woody harrelson

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF 'SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY'

Year of Release: 2018 As is already known, Ron Howard had the task of correcting while directing SOLO — replacing the original filmmaker...

ARCHIVE SUMMARY REVIEW FOR 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK'

action, adventure, denholm elliott, eighties, franchise, george lucas, harrison ford, karen allen, steven spielberg

ARCHIVE SUMMARY REVIEW FOR 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK'

Indiana Jones looks into the pit of ("I Hate...") Snakes! YEAR: 1981 A grand celebration of serial pulp adventures, George Luc...

ARCHIVE REVIEW OF HAN SOLO AT STARS' END BY BRIAN DALEY

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After STAR WARS came out, kids wanted everything to do with the 
characters, even following their lives before and after the film: And here 
we have fan-favs Han Solo and Chewbacca on their own adventure(s), in book form, pre Death Star battle, and there's enough action and suspense to pull
 the ears off a... you know the rest...<br>
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Han's out to free captives, including his furry sidekick, from a remote prison planet 
called Stars' End. Before and after the proverbial tractor beam pulls us into 
fulfilling this main plot, there are plenty of close-calls, dog fights, 
fist fights, and tons of action as the writing flows swift and neatly. 
Sometimes corny but never too much. You almost always have a gallant footing of 
time and place (and space): STARS' END would have made an excellent movie. And so, since nothing can touch the original trilogy, let's hope, at the very least, that SOLO (reviewed tomorrow) lives up to this cult book trilogy by Brian Daley: three in all followed by HAN SOLO'S REVENGE and HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY.<br>

book review, fantasy, science-fiction, seventies, star wars

ARCHIVE REVIEW OF HAN SOLO AT STARS' END BY BRIAN DALEY

HAN SOLO AT STARS' END review archived from 2008 After STAR WARS came out, kids wanted everything to do with the characters, even f...

HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' W/ HARRISON FORD

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Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his magical leather jacket? In HEROES he plays a goofy, manic, troubled Vietnam Vet who, after escaping from a 
mental institution in New York, travels across country, energized by bizarre plans to build a worm 
farm in Eureka, California, with the (hopeful) help of his fellow vets... <br>
<br>
Along the way, via bus, while pestering put-upon driver Val Avery, Winkler's Jack Dunne meets
 lonely, single, soon-to-be-wed Sally Field as Carol (the same year she'd be a reluctant fiance in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT), and the first of his "Nam "
cronies played by soon-to-be-famous Harrison 
Ford, the same year he'd help The Rebel Alliance rescue a princess, here basically rehashing his AMERICAN GRAFFITI "Bob Falfa" character: 
but with issues, and zero backbone. Despite time being spent (with the trio) on his family's rural, white trash farm, and getting to see Ford shoot a machine gun, down Budweisers and drive a hot rod — it all merely serves as a catapult for the second half, when the inevitable romantic element between Henry and Sally sets in. Alas, Ford's Ken "Ace of Diamonds" Boyd could've been played by anyone. And the fact he's bullied and is afraid to compete on the race track, perhaps another actor would have fit better: for legacy's sake... Who knew that that incredible science-fiction fantasy he'd appear in would take off, and wimpy roles like this would suit him no longer... but it's Henry's vehicle anyway...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Al Rubin with Henry Winkler and a groovy marquee HEROEScore: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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As he weaves in and out of craziness whenever the 
story runs out of stream, which is most of the way through, his mental 
illness serves as a platform to not only ham it up with what feels like improv to bust up the surrounding cast and crew, but to charm Field, 
whose rudimentary annoyance eventually turns to love: Not sure, though, if the 
audience feels the same way...<br>
<br>
His sometimes grating bouts with innocently
 optimistic lunacy is often much too "cute" to be taken seriously, and Winkler
 as a veteran of any war is extremely difficult to 
believe. But most of any actor's genuine strength are in the intensity of their eyes, and when called for, he wields a pretty nasty glare. So for road movie fluff you could do much worse. And word has it that HEROES was much better when the Kansas anthem "Carry On My Wayward Son" closed the curtain. Well it is true that in any picture, one song <i>can</i> make a difference.  <br>

al rubin, dennis burkley, harrison ford, henry winkler, john cassavetes, road movie, sally field, seventies, val avery, vietnam

HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' W/ HARRISON FORD

Sally Field, Henry Winkler and Harrison Ford YEAR: 1977 Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his ...

TOM BERENGER & DEBRA WINGER IN 'BETRAYED' WITH TED LEVINE

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A highly 
entertaining, thoroughly enjoyable film about an FBI agent, played by 
the always reliable on screen (yet usually monstrous off-screen) Debra Winger, who goes undercover to white bread 
Farmland USA (as a combine driver) to learn about a man, Tom Berenger, who might not only be 
racist, but responsible for murdering a controversial Jewish disc jockey
 (Howard Stern sans humor)...<br>
<br>
She begins to fall for Tom while slowly 
realizing he's not just a handsome farmer/family man, and yet, she remains optimistically skeptical about 
his involvement in the case until... something 
happens, less than an hour in and much too quickly, that just about ruins the film: He takes her on
 a group "hunting trip" — for a human, not animal, target: This scene's obvious purpose is so the audience can hate 
Tom's character — after all, he and his pals are likable, and in some 
aspects, being part of the neglected working class, relatable (a natural, low-key performance by John Mahoney adds to that)...<br>

debra winger, drama, eighties, john mahoney, ted levine, tom berenger

TOM BERENGER & DEBRA WINGER IN 'BETRAYED' WITH TED LEVINE

Tom Beranger and his dog Ronnie in Betrayed YEAR: 1988 A highly entertaining, thoroughly enjoyable film about an FBI agent, played by ...

MEL BROOKS & ANNE BANCROFT REMAKE 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mel Brooks makes a Bust of Hitler SCORE: **1/2 Year: 1982</u></td></tr>
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Starts out decently enough, and surprisingly different for Mel Brooks to
 direct a remake: something that isn't a parody of a serious genre or a humorous take on historical events... <br>
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then the set up, of a husband and wife who are famous stage performers 
in Poland who, when Hitler takes over, has to close up their theater, 
becomes an overlong skit involving Brooks and real-life wife Anne 
Bancroft, with the aid of a sad throwaway role by ANIMAL HOUSE star Tim Matheson as a love-struck soldier: The entire menagerie playing
 an elaborate scheme on the Nazis that gets way too complicated for it's
 own good in this remake of a Jack Benny 1940's vehicle (when ensemble comedies were the 
norm)... Not only do all the wires get tangled up within each other, 
there's way too many to begin with. And it's understandable turning the 
Nazis into complete buffoons, especially when spoofing them... but in 
doing so it takes away any valid threat, making it meaningless to have 
to trick or defeat them in the first place.<br>
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anne bancroft, comedy, mel brooks, nazi, remake, tim matheson, world war II

MEL BROOKS & ANNE BANCROFT REMAKE 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

Mel Brooks makes a Bust of Hitler SCORE: **1/2 Year: 1982 Starts out decently enough, and surprisingly different for Mel Brooks to dire...

GARY BUSEY TAKES FULL EIGHTIES CHARGE IN 'BULLETPROOF'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1988 Bulletproof Gary Busey Rating: ***</u></td></tr>
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Guns blasting, buildings exploding, cars crashing, and that's 
just the first ten minutes: This action-packed film involving a rogue 
ex-CIA bad ass who can't seem to die no matter how many times he's shot 
(hence the title) is pretty decent...<br>
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Tough and toothy Gary Busey, usually
 cast as a villain in these kind of flicks, has his usual crazy charm, yet is a tad more subdued: after all he's carrying the entire show: Which doesn't take away from supporting roles by 
William Smith, Luke Askew, Henry Siliva and several other "forgotten" 
character-actors. Meanwhile, there are enough smaller action sequences to hold up the
 entire mainline: Busey has to free a group of "kidnapped" American 
military elites and return a high-tech "supertank" (shown above) back to the States. But does America 
deserve this formidable killing machine any more than the bad guys? This question 
is raised, of course, like in any film centering on the CIA... but 
without getting preachy. <br>

action, eighties, gary busey, william smith

GARY BUSEY TAKES FULL EIGHTIES CHARGE IN 'BULLETPROOF'

Year of Release: 1988 Bulletproof Gary Busey Rating: *** Guns blasting, buildings exploding, cars crashing, and that's just the fir...

ERIK ESTRADA GOES (FOR) BROKE IN THE FINAL 'CHIPS' SEASON

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Reilly gets the first Season 6 episode named for him 10/10/1982</u></td></tr>
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No one wants to remember Tom Reilly on CHIPS. He was the blond-haired guy, looking straight out of central casting, who replaced the show's metronomic foundation, Larry Wilcox as Officer Jon Baker and yet, in the life of Reilly, CHIPS remains a pinnacle... at least when scrolling down his IMDb Book of Life. But it wasn't <i>all</i> his fault...<br>
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The role of Office Bobby 'Hot Dog' Nelson was probably more shameful to fans of the series than the man himself, who, for a year, financially benefited from Larry's exit (Jon left to work the family ranch, and the show first Jumped The Shark in Season 5's Battle of the Bands), which left a sad empty space on the L.A. freeway next to Erik Estrada's Frank 'Ponch' Poncherello, who really didn't seem to notice there was a gap to fill at all...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Erik Estrada needed to take it off to covering his partner's departure</u></td></tr>
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His macho Ponch got worse along with Season Six, and is really more to blame than his new wimpy partner...<br>
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Flipping the script, Hot Dog (who'd soon be joined by another blond rookie, Bruce Penhall) was supposed to be what Ponch was in the first season: A devil-may-care rookie that experienced California Highway Patrolman Jon Baker had to take care of/keep an eye on...<br>
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No matter how hard Estrada, once a talented and legitimate character-actor in vehicles such as THE NEW CENTURIONS opposite George C. Scott, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, tried to win over fans, male and females alike (and not in that order) from his mellow and patiently understanding, sandy-blond (and let's face it, completely lipless) mentor, they remained an equal pair. In fact, Wilcox might be more beloved, in retrospect... Especially since he didn't try so hard to be famous-beyond-the-program concerned...<br>
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Although, to be fair, Estrada is merely paint on the pop culture canvas: the writers are to blame for him becoming The Fonz of CHIPS: As BATTLESTAR GALACTICA actor Richard 'Apollo' Hatch said (paraphrased from a Cult Film Freak interview) of Dirk 'Starbuck' Benedict, the bad guys always get the best lines. Especially since the good guy is just Plain/Average Good while the Bad Boys are not really Bad since their Inner-Good relies on a sympathetic underdog quality that provides more dimension than otherwise. But when the final season of CHIPS came around, Estrada had no dimension at all... And we noticed, and cringed...<br>
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This final season's intro episode (a reverse Pilot) is titled MEET THE NEW GUY, and other than a few rebellious wheelies on his part, we hardly do at all. Not like there was anyone to meet other than a bland fleshful of mediocrity to give Ponch the sort of King-Takes-Pawn presence he'd always (seemed to) have wanted: Making more use of his Spanish Sex Symbol persona. Prime example...<br>
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After working-out in an aerobics class that <i>just happens</i> to be run by fatty-fitness guru Richard Simmons (surrounded by a melodramatic plot involving a desperate young mom played by Dominique Dunne), he winds up, while muscularly shirtless in short-shorts, taking off on his daylight motorcycle after the usual feathered-haired villains (the next episode he "reluctantly" winds up a billboard male supermodel)...<br>
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The episode should've been titled <i>The Beginning of the End</i> since we're witnessing an actor's career that didn't have a chance: Had CHIPS ended after Season Five, there could've been more mystery beyond the campy pinup "Mexploitation" that took over, possibly providing Estrada a career beyond straight-to-video action flicks or guest roles on random dramas, Mexican soap operas, or playing himself on sitcoms. But Amazon Prime members should start watching this awesomely embarrassing Sixth Season first, and then, after realizing how genuinely bad the show got, return to the rudimentary stages to discover: This famously bad series wasn't (isn't) bad at all.<br>

andra evans, cop, dominique dunne, eighties, erik estrada, larry wilcox, TV

ERIK ESTRADA GOES (FOR) BROKE IN THE FINAL 'CHIPS' SEASON

Tom Reilly gets the first Season 6 episode named for him 10/10/1982 No one wants to remember Tom Reilly on CHIPS. He was the blond-hai...

CULT STARLET JUDY BROWN PLAYS 'A WOMAN FOR ALL MEN'

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The fact a sexpot from Roger Corman women-in-prison flicks (directed by Jack Hill)  could hold more power and importance over Andy Robinson and Keenan Wynn is proof that the seventies were far from over... In fact, racy drive-in vehicles from the infamously dirty decade were going through a mid-life crisis...<br>
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That same summer, 1975, a giant shark named JAWS was devouring audiences in record-breaking numbers. Because of this "bigger boat," it was up to smaller theaters for those repelled by porno houses: Sitting on the fence were a pileup of R-Rated wannabe X's, and most were pretty bad: Enter Judith Brown, star of THE BIG DOLL HOUSE and WOMEN IN CAGES when she was billed as Judy (whose name seemed to change with a haircut), playing the title character with a title that's exploitation enough: A WOMAN FOR ALL MEN...<br>
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The basic though tangled plot has the usual grouchy millionaire marrying a young beauty. In this case the rich dick is Kennan Wynn, who owns a construction company where his two sons, played by "The Scorpio Killer" Robinson and blue-eyed oddball Peter INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Hooten, work hard outdoors without cozy office jobs, providing enough frustration in what's already predictably forced into the overall Film Noir template...<br>
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Soon enough, oldest son and dad's trophy wife hook up and, like TAROT starring Sue Lyon, Fernando Rey and Gloria Graham a few years earlier, it's the heart-of-gold housekeeper (a respectfully aged Lois Hall) who begins figuring things out: along with dad's only-daughter played by Patty Bodeen, a blue-eyed, round-faced beauty who should have been in a lot more of these kitschy thrillers... Her melodramatic gusto really fits when needed: And with more dialogue than action, anything spontaneous is needed to wake things up: Especially since Brown, usually the "straight man" of Corman films, has to remain firm and one-dimensional in the lead role.<br>
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The suspense builds nicely but it's almost too late once the viewer gets lethargically captured. Then again, random twists and turns occur too soon for the essential "boiling point" to amount to anything beyond a reason for square-jawed Brown to shed her clothes (in an ongoing homemade film within this film). And yet, with recognizable actors Don Porter as Wynn's lawyer and Alex Rocco as the inevitable snoopy cop, this WOMAN is better than one might think. Perhaps those who had served in classic crime heaven (the likes of THE GODFATHER, THE MECHANIC and CHARLEY VARRICK) lacked the usual guilt while reigning in this sizzling perdition of super-low-budget fare.<br>

andy robinson, exploitation, judy brown, keenan wynn, neo noir, peter hooten

CULT STARLET JUDY BROWN PLAYS 'A WOMAN FOR ALL MEN'

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