cult film freak: November 2019

Written by James M. Tate / 11/30/2019 / No comments / horror , interview , ridley scott , science-fiction , seventies , sigourney weaver , yaphet kotto

YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

horror, interview, ridley scott, science-fiction, seventies, sigourney weaver, yaphet kotto

YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

Yaphet Kotto serves up intensity as Parker in ALIENS circa 1979 "All of the scenes were challenging," said Yaphet Kotto in a C...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Walter Hill presents Judd Nelson in Blue City directed by Breakfast Club producer Michelle Manning 1986</u></td></tr>
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This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but 
for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about 
the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City,
 now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br />
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Seeking
 clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David 
Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what 
makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, 
Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced.
 She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar 
fight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ally Sheedy facing fellow Brat Packer Judd Nelson in the Neo Noir Action flick Blu City </u></td></tr>
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The best scenes are his gun-toting revenge against a 
bevy of Wilson's thugs. In the usual action flick fashion, the underdog 
is in over his head, and yet his lack of experience makes him cocky, 
reckless and assertive.<br />
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"I'm new at this," Judd quips after kicking in 
the door of a racetrack office during a heist. And he soon learns how to
 get around, eventually finding out who killed his father... which isn't
 such a shocker... but there's always a cost.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>An angry and wonderfully overacting Scott Wilson in Blue City RATES: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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BLUE CITY
 is colorful action Neo Noir directed by Michelle Manning, who makes 
this a Brat Pack trifecta being she produced both SIXTEEN CANDLES and THE BREAKFAST CLUB for John Hughes.<br />
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And in this departure from teen 
melodrama are plenty of old school cinema stuff to keep you entertained 
like fist fights, gun fights, explosions, and a nifty side cast 
including sexy Anita Morris as his lush stepmother and the always 
watchable Paul Winfield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judd Nelson in Blue City aka Laiton Kaupunki aka Vromiki politeia</u></td></tr>
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But it's Scott Wilson's grimacing villain who 
really stands out like bad guys often do in Walter Hill films, this one 
produced and co-written, not directed by...<br />
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In many ways,  CITY feels 
like his project, although more STREETS OF FIRE than 48 HRS. Even his 
stock musician Ry Cooder provides a beach-breezy score with more synth 
than slide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Caruso in Blue City aka </u><u>Staden bortom lagen aka Блу-сити </u></td></tr>
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action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Walter Hill presents Judd Nelson in Blue City directed by Breakfast Club producer Michelle Manning 1986 This dark horse Brat Pack outing...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/27/2019 / No comments / 2019 , al pacino , biopic , drama , epic , joe pesci , martin scorsese , mob , robert deniro , thriller

REVIEW OF MARTIN SCORSESE'S ANTICIPATED 'THE IRISHMAN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in THE IRISHMEN Year: 2019</u></td></tr>
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At a run-time of over three hours, you'd think director Martin Scorsese would make something more liken to an addictive limited cable series than an epic about absolutely nothing. It is, however, about <i>someone</i>; and that's Jimmy Hoffa played by a CGI-youthful Al Pacino, who, with Robert De Niro as sidekick "house painter" i.e. assassin Frank Sheeran, are involved in endless dialogue leading absolutely nowhere...<br>
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Unlike Scorsese's mob classic GOODFELLAS, ironically playing-out like binge crime serials do now — with something to anticipate around every suspenseful corner — there's nothing to look forward to here except more and more conversations with De Niro on cruise control and Pacino using a fake accent that's not only distracting, but completely unnecessary.<br>

2019, al pacino, biopic, drama, epic, joe pesci, martin scorsese, mob, robert deniro, thriller

REVIEW OF MARTIN SCORSESE'S ANTICIPATED 'THE IRISHMAN'

Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in THE IRISHMEN Year: 2019 At a run-time of over three hours, you'd think director Martin Scorsese would...

MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marilee Earle and George Montgomery in Street of Sinners Year: 1957</u></td></tr>
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With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">THE FEARMAKERS</a> the favorite movie, it's hard not to fall hard for obscure ingenue/bombshell Marilee Earle, whose deep, dark, narrowed, penetrating eyes are reminiscent of Elizabeth Short i.e. The Black Dahlia — yet with a sweet voice she'd often play vulnerable characters: alongside Dana she's a kindhearted secretary and a meek pregnant wife in the cold war thriller THE LOST MISSILE...<br>
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So she really gets to shine in STREET OF SINNERS, a stage play type of B&W melodrama where everything is pushed into one setting, basically: a restaurant run by shady and not very mysteriously nefarious Nehemiah Persoff, who plays a different kind of crime boss who "runs the entire street" since he fully admits and even brags about his crooked reign, even to a much-too-old rookie cop played by George Montgomery as John Dean....<br>

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MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

Marilee Earle and George Montgomery in Street of Sinners Year: 1957 With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, ...

CULT MOVIE STARLET MERRY ANDERS IN 'THE TIME TRAVELERS'

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Initially set in 2001 and led by "modern day" scientist Preston Foster; his younger, handsome sidekick Philip Carey; Carey's beautiful girlfriend Merry Anders; and scene-stealing comic relief (and everybody's sidekick) Steve Franken, THE TIME TRAVELERS is unfairly deemed bad campy schlock, and yet writer/director Ib Melchior created a <i>true</i> science-fiction story in which the viewer and visitors are continuously <i>presented</i> the inner-workings of this self-contained new world, from a wide range of monitors to a wondrously creative android factory: elaborate and highly impressive, labor-of-love sets that would simply be computer-generated today... <br>

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CULT MOVIE STARLET MERRY ANDERS IN 'THE TIME TRAVELERS'

The Time Travelers Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Takes place mainly within a technically-streamlined underground cavern where a relatively spar...

PAUL LEMAT CRUISES DIANNE HULL IN 'ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE'

all night, dianne hull, drama, drug culture, edward james olmos, hangout, melodrama, paul lemat, robert carradine, rolling stones, romance, seventies, tim mcintire

PAUL LEMAT CRUISES DIANNE HULL IN 'ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE'

The Aloha Bobby and Rose vehicle cruising Graffiti style in 1974 When we learn at the close of AMERICAN GRAFFITI that a drunk driver w...

STOMPING THROUGH THE LEGENDARY ORIGINAL 'KING KONG'

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If
 you discovered prehistoric/extremely instinct dinosaurs roaming on an uncharted island, would
 a giant gorilla really matter? Well in this case it’s personal as the 
legendary simian is ticked off with brutal fists flying, razor-sharp
 teeth, and he’s captured Ann Darrow, the street girl turned makeshift 
actress hired by maverick cinema auteur Carl Denham to star in his next 
picture shot entirely at Skull Island, a location that doesn’t even 
appear on the map and, shrouded by a wall of thick, ominous, forbodeing fog, it's 
place you don’t want to spend your vacation…<br>
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Natives dot the shoreline and 
reside mostly behind a giant fortress protected from the unseen god they
 live to fear… And King Kong Kong might not be 
impressively aesthetic to today’s standards. His hair moves with each movement, but we can suspend cinema disbelief by blaming wind. In reality, Willis O’Brien moved Kong by hand, and those are their very own imprints.<br>
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As later on, the famously fake looking shark in JAWS 
didn’t matter or distract from the well-told story, either does a 
model-clay gorilla... There's enough build-up to get to know the 
characters, beginning with a middleman telling Robert Armstrong’s 
headstrong director no studio will allow an actress to risk such a 
venture: So Denhman hits the New York Depression-era streets and finds 
his dame in the form of Faye Wray’s Darrow…<br>
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With pale 
skin, longing eyes, a windswept countenance and an almost primal, 
haunting beauty, Wray, who even at the time was no stranger to horror 
film roles, was given her big break – she's the perfectly suited scream 
queen and boy can she holler… After the forty-five minute mark, when 
she’s kidnapped by the natives and sacrificed to a giddy Kong, her 
wailing never really ceases and, unlike the two remakes, the human 
ingénue doesn’t fall in subliminal love with her giant captor… It’s an 
unrequited, one-sided obsession, and that makes the titular ape even 
more formidable and sinister. <br>
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As Kong battles a giant snake, a menacing pterodactyl
 and a  romping and raging, tail-wagging T-Rex to protect his new 
discovery, he becomes a savior/bodyguard, but most likely for 
territorial reasons...<br>
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Although, Bruce Cabot’s John 
Driscoll is perpetually shadowing Kong to get his lady back... One great
 camera-gliding visual has Driscoll and a weary Darrow running for 
safety as an unseen Kong approaches... And although Cabot is the heroic 
lead, Armstrong’s Denham is the main male character...<br>
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In the modern era, never would a man responsible for 
capturing and exploiting an extremely rare species be considered a hero 
of any kind… In fact, Charles Grodin and Jack Black, basically playing 
the same guy in both sequels, were villains and/or jerks. Either way, 
“It was beauty that killed the beast" lends more cruel irony than 
anything else. But perhaps this line can be explained when, on the 
Island, Kong breaks down the native's wall that, most likely, couldn't 
be 
penetrated under normal circumstances...<br>
<br>
It took Darrow
 to give him the 
extra strength to fulfill his tragic destiny. And despite ravaging the 
native village and following the Americans to shore with loathsome 
vengeance, Kong is no match against gas bombs being hurled at his feet, 
cutting quickly from Skull Island back to New York, where Kong’s on 
display for a theater of impatient sophisticates, resulting in a barrage
 of the city leading to the famous Empire State Building standoff where 
Kong battles airplanes with machine guns, the unfair slaying of an 
iconic creature beloved by audiences, still, even though, in the 
original movie and in his original form, KING KONG was a lethal monster 
to both respect and fear.<br>

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