Sweet Movie Memories
I know why I still get off on the Oxford Theatre, I said to myself lining up there the other day. I can remember those Saturday afternoons: Chronicle Herald paper route done, hockey sticks and ball gloves stowed away. Maybe,…
Poseidon Rex
Poseidon Rex is a 2013 American sci-fi horror film directed by Mark L. Lester (Firestarter), and starring Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels and Steven Helmkamp. A small, secluded island off the coast of Belize suddenly finds itself terrorized by a deadly predator from…
Prophecy (1979)
Prophecy is, at best, a) a departure for John Frankenheimer, b) a 70’s horror movie with a social conscience and, c) not withstanding amateurish special effects, predictable dialogue and long-view shots of Talia Shire looking petrified beyond speech, an actually…
Grizzly
This movie has gotten a lot of flak over the years as a land-based Jaws copy. That criticism is obviously true to some extent. However, the bulk of movies today are often just re-hashes and remakes of stories that have…
Cannonball! (1976)
The movie that broke the dam and started a flood of films revolving around illegal coast to coast car races, really isn’t half bad. That is so long as you don’t forget its a B grade film. There are moments…
The Cry Baby Killer (1958)
Recently, this viewer happened to watch, for the first time, the 1950 film “The Men,” historically important today as the screen debut of 26-year-old Marlon Brando. And by some strange coincidence, my next film, also seen for the first time,…
Money from Home (1953)
Money From Home was Martin&Lewis’s first film in color and it is set during the Roaring Twenties and based on a Damon Runyon story from that era. With such character players as Sheldon Leonard, Robert Strauss, and Jack Kruschen playing…
Bad Taste (1987)
Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers….
The Rebel Rousers (1970)
The Rebel Rousers a few times feels like it could be aiming for something more on its lunch-money used for a budget. It’s got a very simple crux to the story- Bruce Dern and Cameron Mitchell as old school friends…
Capone (1975)
Cheaply-made and over-simplified account of the life and times of the most notorious gangland figure of The Roaring Twenties; clearly intended as exploitation – with liberal doses of nudity and foul language to embellish the typical blood-soaked exploits – the…
The Shooting (1966)
“Did I tell you to do something?” – Billy “I don’t give a curly-hair, yellow-bear, double dog damn if you did” – Coley Four people ride across the desert tracking a killer but it is not clear who they really…
Orca
They killed his wife…they killed his child…they took everything away from him and replaced it with a thirst for justice…a thirst for revenge…sounds like a set up for the 1974 Charles Bronson film Death Wish…but it’s not…it’s actually for Orca…
Primitive (2011)
After punching the director on the set of his latest horror picture, special effects makeup artist, Martin Blaine, is compelled to seek anger management therapy. A visit with a hypnotist seems to help, but soon after his session, Martin receives…
The Wild Ride (1960)
Sure, the first reason to see The Wild Ride (or, unfortunately as it sounds, the ‘re-cut’ Velocity which for some insane reasons extends the story) is for Jack Nicholson. It’s arguably his very first ‘bad-boy’ role in a career with…
Auteur – A George Cameron Romero Film
http://auteurthemovie.com On the brink of reaching the pinnacle of his film career for his latest theatrical masterpiece; Director Charlie Buckwald suddenly disappears. Taking all of the footage and leaving virtually no trace of his existence. Soon to follow are…
Hold On! (1966)
Somebody, somewhere, in 1966, got the idea to make a movie featuring the English rock-n-roll band Herman’s Hermits. That somebody should be interrogated at length. This movie was obviously a crass attempt to cash in on the evolving music phenomena…
Nightbreed (1990)
A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attention of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them. Based on the novel “Cabal” by…
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Hollywood has frequently (and variably) dealt with the WWII Pacific conflict: this is another such film, for which ‘indie’ director Hellman managed to secure the backing of a major studio, Twentieth-Century Fox (though the end result being just 69 minutes…
They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
Bruce Won arrives in America in search of an American G.I. who saved his life in the Korean War. He meets an orphan boy and together they land themselves in a string of outrageous situations. This high-strung farce culminates when…
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
On his 1000th birthday, a mean Leprechaun gets to choose a bride by making her sneeze three times, then she’s his…only the bride he chooses is the daughter of his slave (who fouls up the wedding) so Leprechaun must wait…