cult film freak: 2019

Written by James M. Tate / 12/30/2019 / No comments / action , cult , exploitation , fifties , jack arnold , mamie van doren , russ tamblyn , teen

RUSS TAMBLYN IN JACK ARNOLD'S 'HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 Director: Jack Arnold</u></td></tr>
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Russ Tamblyn is so good in this, so self-assurred and natural and 
villainously awesome it doesn't seem possible what anyone else watching would 
figure upon the first ten minutes, and what the entire movie turns into: A Warning Sign for the 1950's youth that includes a teenage girl addicted to pot as if it were morphine... <br>
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But all the dated elements
 aside, and the somewhat forced special guest casting of Mamie Van Doren as Tamblyn's sexy "aunt" (product placement for testosterone) this 
cult classic, about our confidently rebellious new kid in high school, builds suspense with perfection and includes a terrific car 
race. And the great directorial flow shouldn't be a shock to fans of Jack Arnold: one of the all time great b-moviemakers ranging from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON to TARANTULA to THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN. He turns what many call camp into a perfect outing.<br>
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RUSS TAMBLYN IN JACK ARNOLD'S 'HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL'

Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 Director: Jack Arnold Russ Tamblyn is so good in this, so self-assurred and natural and villainously awesome ...

LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

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We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE LYON only minutes ago: She's an actress featured quite extensively here on Cult Film Freak, and unlike most sites, her later, more obscure drive-in exploitation flicks are what's mostly covered here...<br>
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As of the tail-end of 2019 (she died December 26th), there isn't even a LOLITA review, the titular role that made her famous, or her other temptress turn in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, flirting with another iconic British actor, Richard Burton, after having pretty much killed her faithfully perverse step-dad James Mason in the Stanley Kubrick classic... <br>

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LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Michele Lee, Sue Lyon and Hilarie Thompson on FANTASY ISLAND Year: 1978 We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE...

ROGER CORMAN PRESENTS 'THE FANTASTIC FOUR' REBECCA STAAB

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Corman Presented The Fantastic Four from 1994</u></td></tr>
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The unaired Roger <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Corman</span> FANTASTIC FOUR television-movie stars Alex Hyde-White as the brainy and ambitious Dr. Reed 
Richards, who, along with fellow collegiate Victor Von Doom, attempt an experiment scarring Victor while sparing Richards... <br>
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A decade later, scientist-astronaut Richards is joined by Johnny Storm, an over-the-top Jay 
Underwood, and the gorgeous <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Rebecca</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Staab</span>
 as his sister, Susan, whose childhood crush on Richards becomes instantly mutual. Ben Grimm aka Thing is portrayed with 
brawny charm by Michael Baily Smith. And once in space 
they're pummeled with cosmic rays, crash land on earth, and have thus
 acquired <i>superpowers</i>: Richards is a human rubber band; Johnny flings fireballs; Susan can become invisible; and Grimm’s turned into that super-cool brick-layered Thing. <br>

action, adventure, alex hyde-white, cult, fantasy, import, jay underwood, marvel, nineties, rebecca staab, roger corman, science-fiction, stan lee, superhero, tv movie

ROGER CORMAN PRESENTS 'THE FANTASTIC FOUR' REBECCA STAAB

Roger Corman Presented The Fantastic Four from 1994 The unaired Roger Corman FANTASTIC FOUR television-movie stars Alex Hyde-White as t...

JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

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He and Laraine Newman (the director's SNL alumni) discover a cave with a lost, unknown scroll, and Moore reads about an orphan who, floating downstream, is pushed aside by <i>the </i>legendary basket-floating infant (much like Graham Chapman's title character in this film's muse/inspiration, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN, fatefully born in the manger next-door to Christ)... <br>
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JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

Title: WHOLLY MOSES! Year: 1980 AD Rating: *** Similar to the following years' Mel Brooks Old Testament spoof, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Gar...

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2019 FROM CULT FILM FREAKS DOT COM

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Personally, on a personal basis, this year, 2019, especially the last month, has been the very, very worst Holiday season in ages, maybe forever, but movies keep things moving, always on the run, so, despite being too damn lazy to review a Christmas-based vehicle or to even think of one, don't pick your feet, and Merry Christmas from Cult Film Freak...<br>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2019 FROM CULT FILM FREAKS DOT COM

Personally, on a personal basis, this year, 2019, especially the last month, has been the very, very worst Holiday season in ages, maybe f...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'COLD SWEAT' W/ LIV ULLMANN & JILL IRELAND

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</div><p>And there's some well-played tension as Captain Ross, shot in the gut by his own double-crossing partner, has to be saved or he'll kill Bronson's wife, played by Liv Ullmann, whose role pales to Bronson's real life betrothed Jill Ireland as the Captain's mouthy hippie moll, reluctantly teamed with our hero on a car speeding race-against-time, yet the better scenes take place back at the rural cabin. Where Mason's Ross sits in pain, dying to stay awake and alive while Katanga, probably the best character on board, waits for his time to strike either Captain Ross, Ullman, the pretty young daughter (Yannick Delulle), or all three. It might have worked better had Ireland played the fictional wife so that Ullman, wasted here with domesticated expressions of somber, passive grief, could truly (and energetically) co-star alongside Bronson, as promised. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann, Yannick Delulle and James Mason in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann and Yannick Delulle (looking like Family Affair's Anissa Jones) in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jean Topart in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT with Liv Ullmann and Yannick Delulle</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle as Michèle Martin (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT w/ Liv Ullmann</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jean Topart in COLD SWEAT aka L'uomo dalle due ombre aka Revenge</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT w/ Liv Ullmann</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jill Ireland, Charles Bronson stick up doctor Paul Bonifas in Cold Sweat aka Sudor frio</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT aka </u><u>De kom om natten w/ Liv Ullmann </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Gece misafirleri aka Iskalla nerver</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEET aka Sudoare rece aka Varuj se prijateljev </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>There's another kid credited as  Yannick Deheth in COLD SWEAT and this may be her</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Terence YOung's COLD SWEAT originally titled in France as De la part des copains </u></td></tr>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EGC95-59hwM/XfuabSSvHaI/AAAAAAABMo4/BCQc9S3qGKAjW2O_HAlrrN-v3n6-s5KwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EGC95-59hwM/XfuabSSvHaI/AAAAAAABMo4/BCQc9S3qGKAjW2O_HAlrrN-v3n6-s5KwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle, Liv Ullmann and Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka From The Boys</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yHqzLDPpSGI/YODaewfF9eI/AAAAAAABiyI/vBRbmjqdpxMmf3K0361lJkb189nASiB-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1606/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B2.43.39%2BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="1235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yHqzLDPpSGI/YODaewfF9eI/AAAAAAABiyI/vBRbmjqdpxMmf3K0361lJkb189nASiB-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B2.43.39%2BPM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kino Lorber Blu Ray of COLD SWEAT (reversed back side)</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ia5Z-cA0VJ0/YODaz42RgLI/AAAAAAABiyQ/PaYbmqWShpcV4B6dwEVYWM2FAerNNykiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/81m7Ag-Z6DL._SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1234" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ia5Z-cA0VJ0/YODaz42RgLI/AAAAAAABiyQ/PaYbmqWShpcV4B6dwEVYWM2FAerNNykiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/81m7Ag-Z6DL._SL1500_.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kino Lorber Blu Ray of COLD SWEAT (front side)</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SzL95iKcZ6k/YODnDiHhtiI/AAAAAAABiyo/dZxaj7oJp-8RxXwcNQC5r7sa__mHFZ-TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1973/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B3.31.10%2BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="1973" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SzL95iKcZ6k/YODnDiHhtiI/AAAAAAABiyo/dZxaj7oJp-8RxXwcNQC5r7sa__mHFZ-TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B3.31.10%2BPM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v78QYazftYc/YODnQUy_m8I/AAAAAAABiyw/M2t5yP8Q2s0t0tppy_Cakp49WgbiwrEcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1759/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B3.36.22%2BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1372" data-original-width="1759" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v78QYazftYc/YODnQUy_m8I/AAAAAAABiyw/M2t5yP8Q2s0t0tppy_Cakp49WgbiwrEcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-03%2Bat%2B3.36.22%2BPM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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CHARLES BRONSON IN 'COLD SWEAT' W/ LIV ULLMANN & JILL IRELAND

Charles Bronson starring in COLD SWEAT Year: 1970 In-between Charles Bronson appearing in Film Noir and the Michael Winner winners, he took ...

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FINAL SKYWALKER SAGA 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Retro artwork for Star Wars THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Year: 2019</u></td></tr>
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There's a popular term in internet circles for THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, calling it "fan service" i.e. providing fans what they'd want or expect from a STAR WARS movie. Imagine if The World Series was lambasted for the players using wooden bats to hit a white ball around a grassy field... <br>
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So compared to Rian Johnson's understandably maligned THE LAST JEDI, director J.J. Abrams hits it out of his own safe ballpark in a hybrid/rehash of RETURN OF THE JEDI with similarities to another Lucasfilm classic, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: in particular, a Staff of Ra type device that, maneuvered strategically against an adjoined-perspective-backdrop, can pinpoint another, more important device (i.e. McGuffin) that will locate a lost Sith planet, where a resurrected Emperor Palpatine has poised more Star Destroyers than we've seen in all three trilogies combined...<br>

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FINAL SKYWALKER SAGA 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'

Retro artwork for Star Wars THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Year: 2019 There's a popular term in internet circles for THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, c...

SIX NON-STEREOTYPICAL GAY CHARACTERS IN 1970'S CRIME FILMS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roy Scheider facing Lawrence Olivier, Marathon Man, 1976</u></td></tr>
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<u>Roy Scheider, Marathon Man</u>: Gay characters from older movies... in this case when cinema became more gritty and realistic... usually acted like the stereotype of how homosexuals sometimes act in real life and simply <i>are </i>on screen...<br>
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So here's a list of gay men who don't mess around like they usually do in cinema, to this day, and we'll begin with Roy Scheider as Dustin Hoffman's big brother, nicknamed Doc in MARATHON MAN, who is never actually "outed" but his preference is known from the William Goldman novel, <i>and </i>he pleads that his literal agent/partner William Devane's Janey get his "ass over here" to a hotel room, before being attacked the exact same way as Johnny Ola in THE GODFATHER PART II...<br>

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SIX NON-STEREOTYPICAL GAY CHARACTERS IN 1970'S CRIME FILMS

Roy Scheider facing Lawrence Olivier, Marathon Man, 1976 Roy Scheider, Marathon Man : Gay characters from older movies... in this case w...

LEE MARVIN & ERNEST BORGNINE IN 'EMPEROR OF THE NORTH'

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EMPEROR OF THE NORTH has us believe that, during the Depression when hobos 
made their way jumping trains, the railway workers were deadlier than Germany's Stormtroopers...<br>
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Meanwhile, Hitler's American double, played by Ernest 
Borgnine, kills any and all vagrants with a big hammer, and when Lee Marvin 
successfully leaps a train, along with young, counter-culture representative Keith Carradine, 
Borgnine has to live up to his reputation and thus a battle between good
 and evil, Marvin and Borgnine, ensues in this Robert Aldrich venture directed and edited wonderfully, but is as far-fetched and convoluted as can be. The actors are good but much of the pulpy dialogue is downright embarrassing. Some terrific fight scenes occur even 
though the plot derails less than halfway through. A handsome wreck.<br>

action, adventure, depression-era, ernest borgnine, keith carradine, lee marvin, robert aldrich, seventies

LEE MARVIN & ERNEST BORGNINE IN 'EMPEROR OF THE NORTH'

Foreign Poster for EMPEROR OF THE NORTH Year: 1973 EMPEROR OF THE NORTH has us believe that, during the Depression when hobos made thei...

EIGHTIES 3D 'SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Molly Ringwald getting her mind sucked by the villain YEAR: 1983</u></td></tr>
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One  of those deliberate cult films without much of a 
following, shot in 3D in  the early 1980's, and when formatted to 2D things zoom at the  screen for what seems like no reason, which... like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/10/jaws-3-sucks-greatly.html">JAWS 3D</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/04/friday-13th-3d.html">FRIDAY THE 13TH 3D</a> and other gems from this era... is half the campy fun...<br>
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The sets, meanwhile, resemble a MAD 
MAX future combined with executive producer Ivan Reitman's nostalgically stylistic, homage-driven 1950's
sci-fi b-movie aesthetic (with a Harold Ramis intercom voice-cameo). Then again, since Ivan's not exactly broke, there <i>are</i> gorgeous STAR WARS style matte paintings and theatrical-STAR TREK inspired ships, and the plot too is old school and pulpy, centering on a rogue bounty hunter, Peter Strauss as Wolff, sent to this not-so-desolate planet where three vixens have been kidnapped...<br>

3D, action, adventure, andrea marcovicci, eighties, ernie hudson, exploitation, fantasy, harold ramis, ivan reitman, michael ironside, molly ringwald, peter strauss, science-fiction

EIGHTIES 3D 'SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE'

Molly Ringwald getting her mind sucked by the villain YEAR: 1983 One of those deliberate cult films without much of a following, shot ...

SMOKING HOT MALE FANTASY CAITLIN CLARKE IN 'DRAGONSLAYER'

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DRAGONSLAYER looks great but lacks overall magic — at the same time using way too much of it since the title character is/was a sorcerer's apprentice, providing an easy out and leaving the venture without much difficulty or hardship 
for the good guys, or suspense for the audience...<br>
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The problem is the hero played by Peter 
MacNicol: an underdog was needed, not a feminine wimp. On the other hand, a tough and effective Caitlin Clarke, dressed as a man to dodge the town's fire-spouting virgin sacrifice, tricks everyone: quite a reach since Clarke's Valerian is downright gorgeous. Speaking of which: One cruel sequence has a young virgin princess eaten by baby dragons via Muppet-like puppets munching/crunching 
her feet — it's downright disturbing and sadistic, and not in a "cool" kinda way. So for an awesome flying-fiery creature that still holds up effects-wise, and the cutest damn tomboy ever filmed, DRAGONSLAYER might just do. But not much else is recommended beyond those two. <br>

action, adventure, caitlin clarke, cult, eighties, fantasy, peter macnichol

SMOKING HOT MALE FANTASY CAITLIN CLARKE IN 'DRAGONSLAYER'

Star Wars like Leia hair poster of DRAGONSLAYER Year: 1981 Rates: ** DRAGONSLAYER looks great but lacks overall magic — at the same time...

ROBIN WILLIAMS PLAYS RUSSIAN IN 'MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON'

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Plot centers on a Russian saxophonist, part of that dying country's circus troupe, 
who defects on a trip to New York in, of all places, Bloomingdale's: a scene that's a short film all it's own. Before that, the
 first thirty minutes center in the mid-eighties' Soviet Union where we experience the
 dreary hopelessness of living under communist rule...<br>
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Then the 
last hour's all in America... New York City, to be exact, where poverty reigns as well. But unlike Russia, there's a glimmer of hope... especially with gorgeous Maria Concheta Alonso, whom the bearded everyman lands too quickly to be realistic. Black sidekick Clevon Derricks fills in the needed comedy that Williams would usually infuse had he not a semi-serious plot to carry. Alejandro Rey is also good as his Cuban lawyer, whose thirty-second backstory is perhaps the funniest thing going...  <br>

comedy, drama, eighties, elya baskin, maria concheta alonso, robin williams

ROBIN WILLIAMS PLAYS RUSSIAN IN 'MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON'

Clevon Derricks, Robin Williams and Maria Concheta Alonso 1984 Plot centers on a Russian saxophonist, part of that dying country's c...

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kevin Costner as a straight-shooter in THE HIGHWAYMEN Year: 2019</u></td></tr>
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Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE hasn't really aged all that well. Still entertaining, and reinstating Depression-set gangster films during the counter-culture, it's said to have borrowed the style of French New Wave... But all the phony-looking back-projected driving scenes resemble b-pictures from the time of the couple's reign.<br>
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Well this isn't a review of <i>that</i> movie but a much better and more realistic one: THE HIGHWAYAMEN centers on <i>the guy</i> who took down that famous Depression-era bank-robbing couple, and Kevin Costner's Frank Hamer, unlike Denver Pyle in 1967, isn't an inept, vengeful dolt. How the former UNTOUCHABLES star portrays Hamer, you couldn't imagine him captured and humiliated by Warren Beatty's beanpole Barrow. Even the couple look more like they actually did...<br>

2019, action, adventure, depression-era, gangster, kevin costner, netflix, new, road movie, thriller, william sadler, woody harrelson

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

Kevin Costner as a straight-shooter in THE HIGHWAYMEN Year: 2019 Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE hasn't really aged all that well...

GENE TIERNEY & DANA ANDREWS IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nothing like a spoiler built into a poster for LAURA Year: 1944</u></td></tr>
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Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
 has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's
 not to be spoiled for anyone who hasn't seen LAURA with its particular 
dreamlike camera panning from a sleeping McPherson, and we get the 
murderous yarn, spun all over again in a different fashion and with a 
twist that could be something else entirely as our hero deals with two 
creeps connected with the ingenue: especially a cerebral "sugar 
daddy" in a sophisticated Clifton Webb...<br>
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Word is the producer frowned on this important 
casting because of... well... what's pretty apparent about the futzy 
fella, and he can't shake that aspect from his character of a character,
 Waldo Lydecker. But Webb is perfect as LAURA seems to be the only girl 
who can rid the sophisticated and manipulative Lydecker from his daily 
uptight uptown lunch, all by himself with a contented life all 
mapped-out...<br>

classic, clifton webb, cop, crime, dana andrews, film noir, forties, gene tierney, mystery, otto preminger, vincent price

GENE TIERNEY & DANA ANDREWS IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

Nothing like a spoiler built into a poster for LAURA Year: 1944 Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost...

DECADE-SPANNING BLOODY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE MOVIE REVIEWS

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<u>title: THE BETSY</u>
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<u>year: 1978</u></div>
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Lawrence Olivier, Kathleen Beller, Robert Duvall</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Like something off TV from the late seventies/early eighties night soaps
 ala "Dallas" or "Dynasty" but centering on a car company and with curse
 words and full-frontal nudity (the Kathleen Beller pool scene is quite a
 nice surprise). Tommy Lee Jones is a race car driver/designer hired by a
 rich family to make a new affordable fuel efficient car and gets tangled in 
the web that always permeates the rich and powerful in literature and 
films. This is just fluff, but sometimes entertaining fluff. Robert 
Duvall is surprisingly dull as the somewhat villainous grandson of 
Lawrence Olivier, Olivier who plays wholeheartedly a Henry Ford meets 
Darth Vadar type matriarch of a powerful family that's falling apart at 
the seams.<br />
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<u>title: THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES</u><br />
<u>year: 1977
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, Lee Purcell</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Okay so this was edited from a longer version and comes off as a 
greatest hits of Howard Hughes. The story merely glosses through 
different aspects of his life without much detail.  Tommy Lee Jones was 
good... but at the end you're not sure what made him driven, or crazy, 
in the first place.<br />
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<u>title: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER </u></div>
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<u>year: 1991<br />
cast: Brad Johnson, Willem Defoe <br />
director: John Milius<br />
rating: *</u><br />
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This John Milius Vietnam flick has low-budget written all over it, 
especially when it counts. The talented actors are wasted, and a 
romantic subplot that borders on ludicrious helps waste them, and action
 scenes that leave the viewer wondering not only "What's going on?" but 
"When it gonna end?" Perhaps Milius, who wrote a good percentage of 
"Apocolypse Now", in trying for another Vietnam epic, ends up with a 
"G.I. Joe" meets "Top Gun" in the process. This isn't even corny in an 
endearing sense, it's just plain bad.  </div>
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<u>title: MOTORCYCLE GANG</u><br />
<u>year: 1994</u></div>
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<u>cast: Carla Gugino, Gerald McRaney, Jake Busey, Richard Edson, Julia Mueller </u></div>
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<u>rating: **</u><br />
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This is a bad made-for-TV film that's not so bad, at least the first 
half centering on a family consisting of a father, a mother, and a 
teenager daughter who - during the 1950s - move from Texas to 
California. On the way they run into the element that ruins the flow of 
the movie, and ironically it's the Motorcycle Gang, led by Jake Busey 
who resembles a flaky nineties surfer more than a fifties gang member 
and is about an intimidating as a housefly. This is where the movie hits
 a wall, and explodes. Sadly, once-great John Milius directed this. </div>
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<u>title: CONVOY</u><br />
<u>Year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine </u></div>
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<u>rating: *</u></div>
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After directing the brilliant anti-war film <i>Cross of Iron</i>, Sam 
Peckinpah went into a dizzy retirement, and here's what he made at his 
dizziest. Truckers on CB radios versus a crooked cop. This should be 
called "BJ and the Billy the Kid", as Kris Kristofferson stars as the 
rebel trucker, and his usually dependable laidback personality is 
boring. Ali McGraw, who was pretty bad in the brilliant Peckinpah film <i>The Getaway</i>,
 is just as bad here, but without a good story to lift her above the 
fray. Burt Young and Ernest Borgnine are lackluster, as is Peckinpah's 
signature style... full of slow-motion action and snappy edits... which 
is hardly visible at all.<br />
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<u>title: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD </u></div>
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<u>year: 1951</u>
<u>cast: James Arness</u>
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<u>director: Christian Nyby </u><br />
<u>rating: *1/2</u><br />
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The John Carpenter version has a relatively small number of men trapped 
in an Arctic outpost, and you get to know them all by name, personality,
 share their claustrophobic frenzy and follow their fates accordingly. 
In this movie there's two main characters, a woman who is totally 
misplaced, and about a dozen nameless men who walk from room to room 
talking about a spaceship. John Carpenter told the story in a far better
 fashion... where you can at least follow each character through the 
nightmare as opposed to watching a dated stage play with too many 
characters parading before a stagnate camera. And the famous line, 
"Watch The Skies," is uttered by a lanky scientist. Which makes sense 
since there's nothing to see on the ground. </div>
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<u>title: BLOODY MAMA</u></div>
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<u>year: 1970</u></div>
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<u>cast: Shelley Winters </u></div>
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<u>rating: *1/2</u></div>
<br />
<div>
How
 can a movie directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters as a 
bank robber with sons played by Don Stroud, Robert Walden and last but 
not least Robert DeNiro not be great? Judging Corman films can be 
difficult since they don't aspire for much, but this is a lazy exercise 
in a filmmaker pushing an envelope with nothing inside. For DeNiro fans 
there's not much here. His character just stands around with a dumb look
 and every once in a while says something in an over-the-top hillbilly 
accent. Don Stroud is really the focal point as "Herman", the psychotic 
eldest son, but his performance does nothing but grate on the nerves. 
And Shelley Winters collects a paycheck. Corman produced BOXCAR BERTHA 
and CRAZY MAMA are much better.<br />
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<u>title: STUNTS </u><br />
<u>year: 1977</u></div>
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<u>cast: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis</u><br />
<u>rating: ***1/2 </u><br />
<u><br /></u>
Mark L. Lester rules. STUNTS involves stuntmen getting picked off by a 
mysterious killer. Robert Forster's little brother is one of them, and 
he investigates. Darrell Fetty, Joanna Cassidy, Fiona Lewis, Bruce 
Glover and the late Ray Sharky round out the cast. The acting is 
wonderful and the action is bar none. The stuntmen are killed off like 
campers in a slasher flick, and the tension mounts with precision. 
Lester is a miracle worker. He takes low budget movies and turns them 
into gold. Or at least, silver. And with Robert Forster at the helm: 
this one shines. </div>
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<u>title: THE FURY </u></div>
<div>
<u>year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Amy Irving, Kirk Douglas </u><br />
<u>rating: **1/2<br />
</u><br />
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</div>
<div>
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This is a pretty bad movie, but oh how it delivers. Not quite sure what it 
wants to be, it aspires for action/adventure, a little horror, 
psychological drama, and of course tons of Hitchcockesque suspense. One 
story centers on Kirk Douglas who is supposedly killed by terrorists in 
front of his son, played by Andrew Stevens, a psychic boy-wonder under 
the care of evil John Cassavetes, wants to use his "powers" for the 
military, or something. And Douglas has to avoid the evil agents and try
 finding his son again. The initial action scenes involving Douglas are 
well-done. But the real star is Amy Irving as a young high school girl 
with even more psychic powers than Stevens, and she ends up at a home 
for "gifted children" that becomes CARRIE on the Hallmark Channel.<br />
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<u>title: GHOST TOWN</u><br />
<div>
<u>year: 2007</u></div>
<div>
<u>cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear</u></div>
<div>
<u>rating: ***1/2</u></div>
<br />
<div>
Written
 and directed by David Koepp, this gives the wry-guy Ricky Gervais a 
decent showcase. Plot centers on a grumpy dentist who goes in for 
surgery and then finds out later he died for six minutes, and as a 
result he can see ghosts... much like that kid in "The Sixth Sense", but
 this ghost-spotter is more annoyed than frightened of the pursuing 
spectors. Greg Kinnear, as the most charming and most persistant of the 
ghosts tailing our anti-charm hero, "hires" him to thwart his wife from 
marrying "the wrong guy". It then turns into a fun love story: although it's much <i>more funny</i> when the good guy is sarcastic and bitter i.e. himself. <br />
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<u>title: TROPIC THUNDER</u><br />
<div>
<u>year: 2008</u></div>
<div>
<u>cast: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black</u></div>
<div>
<u>rating: *</u></div>
<br />
<div>
"The
 Three Amigos" centers on three dim-bulb actors who go to Mexico 
thinking they're filming a movie and end up in a real situation battling
 bad guys who want to kill them. "Tropic Thunder" centers on three 
dim-bulb actors who think they're filming a movie and end up... doing 
"Three Amigos" all over again, but very badly. This could have been an 
at least halfway decent bad movie if there wasn't the sidestory about 
Ben Stiller's character's fading career, which makes it horrificly 
horribly awful. Ben Stiller goes over the top and isn't funny, Jack 
Black is totally wasted, and Robert Downey Jr. as a pretentious 
Australian actor playing a black army officer is somewhat impressive but
 gets annoying, fast.</div>
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