Cripple Creek (1952)
There’s one well organized ring of gold smugglers operating out of the gold strike camp of Cripple Creek, Colorado. There’s so much gold being smuggled out of the place that the Secret Service is concerned. Remember the USA was on…
The Moonshine War (1970)
This is one crazy bizarre film. Not so much the story, but the casting. Patrick McGoogan as the corrupt prohibition guy is just hilarious, I was waiting for him to yell out “Who is number one?” just for fun. Richard…
Wizards (1977)
This is one of the most brilliant movies ever made. Though the film alters in tone quite often from dark and moody to light and whimsical, it’s one of my all time favorite movies. It’s Ralph Bakshi’s first film aimed…
Futureworld (1976)
Futureworld is the sequel to 1973’s Westworld. It differed from the first movie in that while Westworld could be genuinely scary, with the gunslinger marching down on everyone, (Almost like an early seventies Terminator) this movie is more like a…
The Wanderers (1979)
A memorable film about a “club” of Italian-American teenagers in The Bronx of 1963. (Today we’d call them a “gang,” but if you compare the “Wanderers” to today’s “Bloods”, “Gangster Disciples”, etc., those l963 kids were relative sissies.) The movie…
Fireball 500 (1966)
This is a fairly innocuous little movie. No one rented tuxes for the 1967 Oscars for this one, but then no one is paying large sums of money to suppress it, either. It feels like a “Perry Mason” or “Route…
The Car (1977)
The Car is a good example of how restraint in the horror genre can work. It honors the tradition of real suspense movies by hinting at more than it shows, and inferring more than it explains. From the cryptic opening…
The Junkman (1982)
Eight years on from the original, GONE IN 60 SECONDS 2: THE JUNKMAN (As it was known pretty much everywhere outside the US) was a vastly bigger budgeted exercise in fender-bending. Whilst boasting a couple of the greatest auto stunts…
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
The original “Gone In 60 Seconds” will be remembered by many viewers as the best car-chase film of all time. It will also be remembered as the film that featured lots of destroyed cars in a 40 minute chase. As…
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
This movie will never be remembered as great filmmaking, but it’s sure to go down in history as an eerily accurate time capsule of the 1970’s. The seventies, a time when, despite the depressingly high crime rate, people left their…
Eat My Dust (1976)
This is merely another one of those many 70s car-chase films. It’s fun & mindless and features some beautiful rural California locations. Plus, how can you go wrong with the likable Ron Howard? The film was a box-office success for…
House of Women (1962)
HOUSE OF WOMEN is an ultra-rarity in its own sub-genre, the Women’s Prison Picture. It’s not on the high artistic level of CAGED (1950), nor does it have the dramatic conviction of WOMEN’S PRISON (1955). Yet this film is more…
Carry On Cabby (1963)
This is a wonderful early movie from the Carry.on series, it’s easy to see why for many this is seen as one of the best. It boasts a pretty good script, a classic tale of men against women. Zero smut,…
Bayb, Its Always Been You: Big Media And Movie Theaters
You were the first one Oh-a oh You were the last one Video killed the radio star Video killed the radio star In my mind and in my car, we can’t rewind we’ve gone to far Oh-a-aho oh Oh-a-aho oh…
Manhattan Baby (1982)
Hey – it’s 1980 and Mr. Fulci wishes to do something ‘not so horror’. So he created this tale about an Egyptian amulet which brings terrible tragedy to a New York family. I’ve seen about 15 of these Italian post-giallo…
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Certainly Chucks greatest along with The Delta Force, this film has very few flaws. From the outset we see the hard and rugged Chuck fight it out with style and humour. The joy within this film is yet again a…
Hot Rod Hullabaloo (1966)
A young hot rodder, needing money to go to college, decides to participate in an illegal drag race. He knows he has the fastest car around and so does his competitor who is willing to stop at nothing to win…
The Amityville Horror (1979)
George and Kathy Lutz are looking for a place to anchor down and raise a family. The Lutz’s and their children (Kathy’s from a previous marriage) settle on an impossibly cheap, large and beautiful shore house. But 28 days later…
Berserker (1987)
BERSERKER is not the worst backwoods slasher ever made. Films like DON’T GO IN THE WOODS make BERSERKER look like a work of genius. The script is really terrible though and whatever they tried to do was, in the end,…
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) is a successful young professor, married with Tansy Taylor (Janet Blair). He is a very skeptical man, while his wife believes in magic and witchcraft. One day, he finds lots of amulets and witchcraft in his…