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Written by James M. Tate / 12/17/2018 / No comments / bel air productions , crime , dabbs greer , drama , fifties , film noir or melodrama , howard w. koch , jazz score , john bromfield , joi lansing , mark dana , suspense

JOHN BROMFIELD DEALING IN 'HOT CARS' WITH JOI LANSING

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A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening where a quiet Los Angeles main street's lined with outlet stores across from a used car lot, and John Bromfield's Nick Dunn is so honest, he ironically passed the acid test for crooks: That is, the main (though polite and unassuming) heavy, rolling stolen vehicles through his own larger lot, sees that Nick is the man to trust...<br />
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Not trusted to be dishonest but to remain faithful and, like any Film Noir outing, it takes something desperate and personal for a good man to cross the line...<br />
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In this case, his child needing surgery causes Nick do what Joi Lansing and her incredible body couldn't initially persuade. And by the time our husband/dad's up to his neck in HOT CARS, delivered to the illegal, seemingly untouchable operation where Nick is stuck as middleman, he's the sole target of a determined police investigator, with no way out... Or is there? And does freedom have a price? And who's gonna pay? <br />
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The best scenes occur <i>before</i> he gets hounded and <i>right after</i> he's on board the seemingly perfect, well-paying gig as the fitfully cool, underrated movie and TV actor John Bromfield, with all the ingredients of a casual b-actor, nails the put-upon working man persona, with class to boot: A nice fit for caustic, melodramatic lines like: "That's the problem with dopes like us," to his incredibly-trusting wife, without sounding corny, or cliché: "Too much month at the end of our money."<br />
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In cult movie retrospect, Bromfield played the flirtatious scuba diver (targeting pretty Lori Nelson who prefers humble John Agar) in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. Though he wasn't able to "reign in heaven" as a leading man in mainstream features, he's a sublime b-leading man and does a particularly fine job here, looking handsome and boxy-muscular under well-suited work clothes... <br />
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Set in the cut-and-dry mid-1950's, the vacant, bare-boned, industrial locations, shot in fitfully sparse B&W, lends to the overall purgatory aesthetic as our sexy, full-breasted, manipulative "femme fatale" in Joi Lansing lights up every room. Meanwhile, her boss, Ralph Clayton as Mr. Markel... with Mark Dana's tall, square-jawed and very lethal Smiley Ward at his beckon call... make for a solid if subtle, professionally villainous trio... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield as Nick Dunn in Hot Cars</u></td></tr>
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Within the Film Noir template (although more in the plot-points and character motivations than cinematography and lighting), instead of being an otherwise kindhearted anti-hero, Nick's a solid clean slate, working for the wrong side while that extremely pestering cop (Dabbs Greer) is the main "antagonist" albeit in protagonist's clothes: most of the second act suspense occurs between these two proverbial "good guys," one masked with an effective, royal flush poker face...<br />
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And after a slight twist, there's an intense HOUSE OF BAMBOO style action climax with Nick and an armed Smiley battling-it-out on a fast-moving, rickety rollercoaster (in Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica). Meanwhile, an 11th hour stampede of cops move in on "poor little me" Joi Lansing and her gentleman boss, who can't flirt <i>or</i> pay their way out of how these kind of movies all wind down and end up: Learning that harsh, inevitable lesson that crime doesn't pay... at least, not for very long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield w/ his first boss played by Robert Osterloh: Cagney's partner in WHITE HEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and some HOT CARS in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Joi Lansing in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Classy head villain Ralph Clanton with employee Nick Dunn (John Bromfield) HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi's the bad girl and Carol Shannon is the good girl aka John Bromfield's perfect wife</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gunsmoke and Little House actor Dabbs Greer plays cop to John Bromfield HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>B-Movie actor John Bromfield winds up with C-movie actor Mark Dana as Smiley Ward</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pay to play Joi Lansing lays in bed and dreams of fur coats in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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bel air productions, crime, dabbs greer, drama, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard w. koch, jazz score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, suspense

JOHN BROMFIELD DEALING IN 'HOT CARS' WITH JOI LANSING

Joi Lansing & Carol Shannon YEAR: 1956 A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening where a quiet Los Angel...

Written by James M. Tate / 12/15/2018 / No comments / action , adventure , crime , drama , harrison ford , joe pantoliano , nineties , remake , tommy lee jones

HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harrison Ford lays low in THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993</u></td></tr>
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The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and in one case, Oscar winning big screen adaptation of the classic TV-show is when supporting actor champ Tommy Lee Jones is by himself, looking straight ahead but at nothing, really — then cutting to where Harrison Ford's title character is seeking refuge.<br>
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Jones, who was practically a veteran actor at this point, and hadn't yet reached big mainstream success, is downright fantastic here: he deserved the A-list promotion but should <i>not </i>have won the award far more deserving of Ralph Fiennes, who turned in a more difficult and less natural performance as a loathsome Nazi's Nazi in SCHINDLER'S LIST, and his <i>was actually a</i> <i>Supporting Role</i>, and not one of two equal co-leads: Which is what Ford and Jones are... In fact, the latter has even more scenes, overall input, and, obviously, dialogue...<br>

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HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

Harrison Ford lays low in THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993 The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and in one cas...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' WITH DANA ANDREWS

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Director Jacques Tourneur,
 in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andrews followed by THE FEARMAKERS and a decade after CANYON PASSAGE — wanted the CURSE OF THE DEMON demon — resembling a grizzly bear mated with an irate buffalo — to be revealed later on instead of the first ten minutes...<br>
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During an investigation by Dana Andrews as John 
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 in-the-dark along with the main character... Kind of an implied and ambiguous gumshoe Film Noir approach within a supernatural horror picture...<br>

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' WITH DANA ANDREWS

Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957 Director Jacques Tourneur, in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andre...

GETTING IN CHARACTER WITH HARRY NORTHUP: AN INTERVIEW

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cult Film Freak Interview with actor Harry Northup</u></td></tr>
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Harry Northup can play just about anything. Characters that are gentle, naïve, funny, sad, determined, or mean as hell... through the course of five decades he’s been there, done that – wonderfully...<br>
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Few actors are as genuine, believable, and versatile on screen...<br>
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Among a long list of motion pictures and television shows he’s appeared in numerous projects with top-notch directors such as Martin Scorsese (including “Taxi Driver”, "Mean Streets," "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Boxcar Bertha"), Jonathan Kaplan (“Over the Edge”), Paul Schrader ("Blue Collar") and Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs”, "Crazy Mama"): And along with show business, Harry's the author of nine published books of poetry.<br>

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GETTING IN CHARACTER WITH HARRY NORTHUP: AN INTERVIEW

Cult Film Freak Interview with actor Harry Northup Harry Northup can play just about anything. Characters that are gentle, naïve, funny,...

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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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>
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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'

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<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>
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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>
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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>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trying hard for a Spielberg Close Encounters look</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Theatrical Haunting: 1982</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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<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>
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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>
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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'

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<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>
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<u>cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, Paul Rodriguez </u><br>
<u>year: 1986 rating: ***1/2</u><br>
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What could have been Kevin Bacon's COCKTAIL (or renamed <i>The Wolf of Ten-Speed</i>) is actually pretty decent...<br>
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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>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz QUICKSILVER with Kevin Bacon</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>QUICKSILVER Jamie Gertz</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"My parents and Frank are THIS close" Jamie Gertz, Quicksilver</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz and Kevin Bacon in QUICKSILVER from 1986</u></td></tr>
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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'

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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>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Forbidding perspective of the DEATH PROOF Nova YEAR: 2007</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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>

action, body count, cult, drive-in, drugs, exploitation, killer car, marley shelton, quentin tarantino, rosario dawson, rose mcgowen, sydney poitier, thriller, vanessa ferlito, zeroes, zoë bell

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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ron Wood cameo in THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984</u></td></tr>
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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>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>EVH mixing TWL</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Theresa Wright covers Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing YEAR: 1980</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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>
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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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Surfer Fangforth & Tribal Birdspear in NEON MANIACS year: 1986</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tiffany Shepis & George Hardy stalk Texas Cotton YEAR: 2018</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A young Jack Nicholson in THE WILD RIDE Year: 1960</u></td></tr>
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Before the term "Speed Kills" referred to drugs it was for souped-up fast cars...<br>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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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>
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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'

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RAMBLING FACT-CHECKING REVIEW OF 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

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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>
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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

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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>
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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>
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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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Telly's vision above surface YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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The anticipated Orson Welles film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND is two pictures in one...<br>
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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>
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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 ...

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