…On Gossamer Wings: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, July 2021 Edition, Vol. 0G With the current interest is privatized space travel capturing the popular imagination, and providing a welcome distraction and yet another promising one-way ticket out of … Continue reading
“‘Gator Bait” (1974) “‘Gator Bait” is a simplistic tale of revenge that is simply told, entirely lacking in any trace of nuance or pretensions toward Art and it’s all the better for it. … Continue reading
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“The Longest Day” (1962) (Originally published June 23, 2013) Darryl F. Zanuck’s monumental war epic depicting the events of the D-Day invasion of World War 2 has the disadvantage of…
Memorium: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, June 2021 Edition, Vol. 6 In the aftermath of America’s annual amnesia as to the true meaning of Memorial Day aside from the now-popular three day bacchanal celebrated by those nursing that … Continue reading
HORSE SENSE: CLASSIC FILM IMAGES PHOTO QUIZ, MAY 2021 EDITION, VOL. 6 HANDS If the current pandemic teaches us anything (a supposition which for reasons only a scientific investigation the size of the Manhattan Project might begin to unravel … Continue reading
“The Stone Killer” (1973) Discontent to assure audiences of a visceral thrill ride by the mere mention in the opening credits of Michael Winner assuming the directorial antics, “The Stone Killer” begins with … Continue reading
“Public Affairs” (1983) Henri Pachard’s “Public Affairs” (which he also co-scripted) would have you believe that politics is no deeper than a lowbrow humor which seems suspiciously lifted using the frivolous filter of vague remembrance … Continue reading
Isn’t Running a Sign You’re Up to No-Good?: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Apr. 2021 Edition, Vol. 26.2 With this year’s upcoming cancelled running of the Boston Marathon, there is little reason for the annual Patriot’s Day holiday … Continue reading
All Creatures Great and Small: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, March 2021 Edition, Vol. 46XXL With the arrival of a theatrical film award season celebrating the achievements of a year completely invisible of theatrical entertainment, it has become … Continue reading
“Jade” (1995) While convolution in a murder mystery is nothing new, a film usually pays dividends if, in the end, a semblance of coherence can be deciphered from even the most labyrinthine of … Continue reading
“TRADER HORN” (1973) The painfully optimistic marketing material announces that this remake of the 1931 African adventure “Trader Horn” is in the grand tradition of “King Solomon’s Mines” and “Mogambo”. For once we are presented with an example … Continue reading
“The Addams Family” (2019) If anyone is sincere in capturing the delicious, wickedly funny malevolence of the original Charles Addams cartoons, it would seem prudent to preserve the monochromatic design of the drawings. The new animated “The Addams … Continue reading
Noir!: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Feb. 2021 Edition, Vol. .38 Being that February is Black History Month and the crew at CSR are noted for their sensitivity to the burning issues of the day, it was decided … Continue reading
“Tombstone” (1993) In George Stevens’ film “Shane”, when excitable homesteader Frank Torrey (Elisha Cook Jr.) is gunned down by the enigmatic hired killer Jack Wilson (Jack Palance), the director deliberately amplified the volume of … Continue reading
“Red Sun” (1971) With the emergence of the Spaghetti Western, the appearance of ethnically incongruent casts became more commonplace, especially in light of the Italian film industry’s habit of shooting films MOS. The capability … Continue reading
Lucky 2021: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Jan. 2021 Edition, Vol. 0-0 Thank goodness for the end of 2020. Not that we have anything to complain about here at the offices of CSR, but we’re so tired of listening … Continue reading
“Attack of the Crab Monsters” (1957) One of the immediate presumptions one can make when noting the presence of genre regular Russell Johnson in Roger Corman’s “Attack of the Crab Monsters” is that, as in … Continue reading
“In the Heat of the Night” (1967) With “In the Heat of the Night” director Norman Jewison breaches the unconscionable commercial wall of denial concerning racial injustice by way of silence (born entirely of an industry … Continue reading
“Two on a Guillotine” (1965) Clearly taking direction from the horror films of William Castle and employing vividly evident inspiration from his 1959 “House on Haunted Hill”, William Conrad’s “Two on a … Continue reading
“Justice League” (2017) If “Justice League” proves anything it’s that any pretense of the inclusion of genuine human heart in the halting but expanding collection of high-powered missteps known as … Continue reading
“Undertaker and His Pals, The” (1966) A bizarre hybrid of a film which emerges as an extremely low-rent version of Harvey Kurtzman-like parody of the savage mock Southern Gothic sadism of Herschell Gordon Lewis. To boost the business of the … Continue reading
“PT 109” (1963) Much can be determined from the character of a person by the substance of an autobiographical tome. In the case of “PT 109”, so much influence was exerted … Continue reading
Dear Cinema Santa: 2020 Edition To crown this year of joviality and conviviality (we only eliminated four enemies all year, so we … Continue reading
‘Tis the Season of Excess: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Dec. 2020 Edition, Vol. 3,000,000,000 If anything might be guaranteed to emanate on a continuous basis from the deeply humanist and selfless communal mindset that is at the core of … Continue reading
Family Ties: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Nov. 2020 Edition, Vol. 2.4 Recently it was reported that America’s most prominent Chicken Little, Dr, Anthony Fauci was informed by his family that due to the conditions of the pandemic, they … Continue reading
“Hand of Death” (1962) In “Hand of Death” poor John Agar stars as his latest incarnation of an actor impersonating a career scientist whose altruism is perverted with exponentially monstrous results as he operates … Continue reading
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Notoriously unlucky in the myriad of film translations of his work, Edgar Allan Poe finds an unlikely ally with the techniques of a minimalist animation style from U.P.A. Studios, a happy meeting…
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Imagine the panic in Hollywood studios in the late 1960’s, many already absorbed by corporations who had no more knowledge of the film business than a dairy cow has about producing…
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________________________________________________________________ “The Little Shop of Horrors” is a more broadly freewheeling horror-comedy than Roger Corman’s savagely on target beat counterculture satire “A Bucket of Blood”, a film with a far more ambitious agenda…
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By the time director Frank Capra created his series of unrelenting Man of the People populist fantasies, it was clear that although he didn’t invent this particular genre (though even a cursory glance…
#MeBoo: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Oct. 2020 Edition, Vol. 36-24-36-43 Amid all of the fuss of the current extended job interview between two fellows who, in the real world, would be underqualified to handle the complexities of being … Continue reading
“Humanoids From the Deep” (1980) If one were uncertain as to the gravity of the situation in the small fishing hamlet of Noyo, California one would need no further measurement than the overbearingly ominous music of James Horner which … Continue reading
WOMAN IN VIOLENT REPOSE: This Vemeer-like opening image from Gerd Oswald’s “Valerie” sets the stage for a Western less interested in the who than in the why of what appears to be a spontaneous multiple killing. … Continue reading
If You Have Time to Read This, You’re Not Earning Your Pay: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Sept. 202 Special Labor Day Edition, Vol. 40/5 In celebration of the American holiday acknowledging the working class, all of the effort … Continue reading
It Came From the File Cabinet: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Late Aug./Early Sept. 2020 Edition, Vol. 47 It is with great sorrow that we at Chandler Swain Reviews regret to inform you that our traditional method of … Continue reading
Mirror, Mirror: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, July 2020 Edition, Vol. XI-IX History seems fated to repeat itself. The Age of the Selfie is the direct antecedent of the Golden Age of Mirror Gazing and both depend on … Continue reading
“The Longest Day” (1962) (Originally published June 23, 2013) Darryl F. Zanuck’s monumental war epic depicting the events of the D-Day invasion of World War 2 has the disadvantage of not only following dozens of characters … Continue reading
Supposed Ex-Royal Interloper Meghan Stews at Attention Grabbing Moose Stalker From Beetley Reported to Have Asked “Grandmummy” to Declare … Continue reading
In Black and White: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, June 2020 Edition, Vol. -30- What’s black and white and red all over? Pravda naturally. However, when it comes to Hollywood, the answer would more likely be Panda Tartare (being … Continue reading
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Java Buzz: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, Special Caffeine-Fueled B. Sisters Café Mid-May 2020 Edition, Vol. 1/2 & 1/2 é Live and more alert than is (in theory) humanly safe after nine straight large cups of Cold Brew … Continue reading
A BRAINTEASER TO SEE WHO’S STILL WITH US… …cognitively speaking of course. (Unfortunately this omits a particularly sad individual who is currently running/sitting/hibernating/drooling for office for the DMC, but seems quite content to spend his autumn hours neatly snuggled … Continue reading
A Holiday Missive to “MOTHER” Given that the average male Yale graduate’s (we’ve talked to ’em… they’re a sad bunch) day is given over to dealing with feelings of guilt and inadequacy so deeply ingrained … Continue reading
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Classic Film Images Photo Quiz, May 2020 Edition, Vol. .400 During what will undoubtedly be referred to by some historians as The Great Purell Hunt of 2020 (while others will more sensibly remember … Continue reading
“Rambo: Last Blood” (2019) By this point in the increasingly indefensible gorefest known as the Rambo franchise, having abandoned the original novel and film’s conception of a man irretrievably changed and haunted by Vietnam (the War, … Continue reading
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A review of Peter Markle's 1994 western comedy "WAGONS EAST" starring John Candy and Richard Lewis.
A look at Bryan Singer's 2000 film "X-MEN" starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen.
A review of Ted Post's 1973 "MAGNUM FORCE" starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook and David Soul.
A look at Richard Fleischer's 1966 SF epic "FANTASTIC VOYAGE" starring Stephen Boyd, and Raquel Welch.
A look at Deborah Anderson's documentary "AROUSED" starring Allie Haze, Misty Stone and Kayden Kross.
A consideration of Arthur Hiller's 1970 romance "LOVE STORY" starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.
A review of Clint Eastwood's 1985 western "PALE RIDER" starring Eastwood, Richard Dysart and John Russell.
A look at Anne Fletcher's 2012 comedy "THE GUILT TRIP" starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogan.
A short revbiew of Steven Spielberg's "1941" starring John Belushi, Warren Oates, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, and Robert Stack.
A review of Norman Lear's 1971 comedy "COLD TURKEY" starring Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart and Pippa Scott.
A review of Tom Gries' 1975 "BREAKHEART PASS" starring Charles Bronson, Richard Crenna, Ben Johnson and Jill Ireland.
A look at Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of "PSYCHO" starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche and Julianne Moore.
A review of William Malone's 1999 remake of "HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL" starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen and Ali Larter.
A look at Kenneth Branagh's "JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT" starring Chris Pine, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley.
A review of Ken Hughes' 1954 film noir "THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE" starring Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke.
look at the John Huston, Val Guest, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Ken Hughes 1967 James Bond spoof "CASINO ROYALE" starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Peter Sellers, Wood Allen and Orson Welles.
A review of Alan Metter's 1986 comedy "BACK TO SCHOOL" starring Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman and Robert Downey, Jr.
A review of James L. Brooks' 1997 comedy "AS GOOD AS IT GETS" starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear.
A look at Franklin J. Schaffner's 1968 "PLANET OF THE APES" starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall.
A review of John Guillermin's "THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN" starring George Segal, Robert Vaughn and Ben Gazzara.
a review of Gordon Douglas' 1970 cop drama "THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS" starring Sidney Poitier and Martin Landau.
A review of Gary Nelson's 1979 SF film "THE BLACK HOLE" starring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Yvette Mimieux.
A look at Richard Brooks' 1975 western adventure "BITE THE BULLET" starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen and Ben Johnson.
A look at Roger Corman's 1960 black comedy "THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS" starring Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, Jackie Joseph, Dick Miller and Jack Nicholson.
A review of Gareth Edwards' 2014 "GODZILLA" starring Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston.
A look at Gene Saks' 1968 film of Neil Simon's "THE ODD COUPLE" starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
A review of Kirk Douglas' 1975 western "POSSE" starring Douglas, Bruce Dern and Bo Hopkins.
An examination of Just Jaeckin's 1974 "EMMANUELLE" starring Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny and Marika Green.
A review of James Wong's 2000 horror film "FINAL DESTINATION" starring Tony Todd, Devon Sawa and Ali Larter.
A discussion of William A. Wellman's 1947 "Magic Town" starring James Stewart, Jane Wyman and Kent Smith.
A review of Andrew V. McLagen's 1968 World War II drama "THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE" starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson and Vince Edwards.
A look at Barry Shear's 1973 revenge western "The Deadly Trackers" starring Richard Harris, Rod Taylor and Al Lettieri.
A review of Elliot Silverstein's 1965 "CAT BALLOU" starring Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda and Michael Callan.
A brief look at Paul Wendkos' 1969 adventure "GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" starring George Kennedy, James Whitmore and Monte Markham.
A review of Joseph Pevney's 1957 "ISTANBUL" starring Errol Flynn and Cornell Borchers.
An analysis of Burt Kennedy's 1973 "THE TRAIN ROBBERS" starring John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Ben Johnson and Rod Taylor.
A look at Ted Kotcheff's 1982 "FIRST BLOOD" starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy.
A look at Jonathan Demme's 1979 "LAST EMBRACE" starring Roy Scheider.
A review of Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 "THE COTTON CLUB" starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines and Diane Lane.
A look at Michael Anderson's 1976 "LOGAN'S RUN" starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Richard Jordan.
A consideration of Jack Smight's 1974 disaster "AIRPORT 1975" starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black and Dana and Gloria Swanson.
A look at Stephen Hopkins' 1998 film of "LOST IN SPACE" starring William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Gary Oldman and Heather Graham.
A review of Roger Michell's 2012 "HYDE PARK ON HUDSON" starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney.
A look at Zack Snyder's 2013 reimagining of the Superman legend in the 2013 "MAN OF STEEL" starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe and Michael Shannon.
A review of Sacha Gervasi's 2012 biopic "HITCHCOCK" starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.
An examination of two Bert I. Gordon thrillers, 1957's "THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN" and 1958's "WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST"
A review of Michael Findlay's 1968 "A THOUSAND PLEASURES".
A review of William Wyler's 1966 caper comedy "HOW TO STEAL A MILLION" starring Peter O'Toole, Audrey Heprburn, Eli Wallach and Hugh Griffith.
A review of George C. Scott's 1972 directorial debut "RAGE" starring George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes.
A look at Hal Barwood's 1985 bio-thriller "WARNING SIGN" starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan and Yaphet Kotto.
A brief look at Guillermo del Toro's 2013 kaiju/mecha hybrid "PACIFIC RIM" starring Idris Elba.
A review of Norman Jewison's 1975 SF drama "ROLLERBALL" starring James Caan, John Houseman and Moses Gunn.
A review of Roland West's 1926 mystery-comedy "THE BAT" starring Emily Fitzroy and Louise Fazenda.
A look back at J. Lee Thompson's 1969 western "MACKENNA'S GOLD" starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Julie Newmar.
A review of Mel Welles' 1971 "LADY FRANKENSTEIN" starring Sara Bay, Joseph Cotten and Paul Muller.
review of Don Cammell's 1977 "DEMON SEED" starring Julie Christie and Fritz Weaver.
A review of William Girdler's 1974 Blaxploitation "Exorcist" rip-off "ABBY" starring William Marshall, Carol Speed and Juanita Moore.
A review of the 1962 Philip Leacock crime drama "13 WEST STREET" starring Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger and Michael Callan.
A review of Howard Hawks' final film, the 1970 western "RIO LOBO" starring John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero and Jack Elam.
A review of Peter Hyams' 1984 follow-up to "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", "2010" starring Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea and Bob Balaban.
A review of Dan O'Bannon's 1985 "THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD" starring James Karen, Clu Gulager and Don Calfa.
A review of William A. Wellman's 1954 "THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Robert Stack, Doe Avdeon, Jan Sterling and Robert Newton.
A review of David Miller's 1973 speculative assassination drama "EXECUTIVE ACTION" starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer.
A review of Charles Crichton's 1964 "THE THIRD SECRET" starring Stephen Boyd, Diane Cilento and Pamela Franklin.
A brief look at Guy Hamilton's 1985 thriller "REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS" starring Fred Ward, Joel Grey and Kate Mulgrew.
A review of Tom O'Horgan's 1969 "FUTZ".
A brief look at Nathan Juran's 1957 "THE DEADLY MANTIS" starring Craig Stevens and William Hopper.
A review of Ralph Bakshi's 1972 "FRITZ THE CAT".
A review of Sid Levin and Robert Abel's "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL" starring Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino.
A brief look at Desmond Davis' 1967 "SMASHING TIME" starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave.
A review of Jerry Schatzberg's debut feature "PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD" starring Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus and Viveca Lindfors.
A review of Steven Spielberg's 1977 "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut and Melinda Dillon.
A review of Don Taylor's 1980 "THE FINAL COUNTDOWN" starring Kirk Douglas, James Farentino, Martin Sheen and Ron O'Neal.
A review of Kirby Dick's 2006 documentary "THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED".
A review of Tomas Alfredson's 2011 "TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY" starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Benedict Cumberbatch.
A brief look at Nacho Cerda's despicable 1994 short film "AFTERMATH".
A review of J.J. Abrams' 2009 "STAR TREK" starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Bruce Greenwood.
A review of Sean Ellis' 2006 comedy "CASHBACK" starring Sean Biggerstaff and Emilia Fox.
A review of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi's 1966 documentary "AFRICA, ADDIO".
A review of Ralph Brooke's 1961 "BLOODLUST!" starring Wilton Graff and Robert Reed.
A review of Eugene Lourie's 1953 "THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS" starring Paul Christian, Paula Raymond and Cecil Kellaway.
A brief look as Christian Marquand's 1968 film adaptation of "CANDY" starring Ewa Aulin, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr, James Coburn and John Astin.
A review of Robert Guest's 1972 "Dr. Phibes Rises Again" starring Vincent Price and Robert Quarry.
A look at Roger Vadim's 1968 "BARBARELLA" starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, David Hemmings and Milo O'Shea.
A look at William J. Hole Jr's 1962 "THE DEVIL'S HAND" starring Robert Alda, Linda Christian, Neil Hamilton and Ariadne Welter.
A review of William Cameron Menzies' 1953 "INVADERS FROM MARS" starring Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter and Arthur Franz.
A review of John Milius' 1973 gangster epic "DILLINGER" starring Warren Oates, Ben Johnson and Harry Dean Stanton.
A review of Val Guest's 1971 "WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH" starring Victoria Vetri.
A review of Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's "REC" starring Manuela Velasco
A review of Kurt Neumann's 1958 "THE FLY" starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens and Vincent Price.
A review of Basil Dearden's 1966 "KHARTOUM" starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier.
A look back at Jack Arnold's 1954 "CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON" starring Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Julia Adams, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning.
A review of Gene Saks' 1967 film of Neil Simon's "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" starring Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick, Charles Boyer and Herb Edelman.
A review of George Romero's seminal 1968 horror film "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardiman.
A review of the 1974 Jack Haley, Jr. compilation film "THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT" featuring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra and James Stewart.
A brief look at Roger Corman's 1967 gangster epic "THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE" starring Jason Robards, Ralph Meeker, George Segal, Bruce Dern, Jean Hale and John Agar.
A review of William A. Wellman's 1955 adventure "BLOOD ALLEY" starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall.
A review of Bonnie Sherr Klein's 1981 documentary "NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY".
A look back at C.M. Pennington-Richards' 1967 "A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD" starring Barrie Ingham, Gay Hamilton and Peter Blythe.
A brief look at Mike Nichols' 1980 concert film "GILDA LIVE" starring Gilda Radner.
A review of Nathan Hertz' 1957 "THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS" starring John Agar and Joyce Meadows.
A brief look at Tim Burton's 2007 musical film "SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET" starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
A look at Elio Petri's 1965 "LA DECIMA VITTIMA" ("THE 10TH VICTIM") starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress and Elsa Martinelli.
A review of Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 film "TARGETS" starring Boris Karloff and Tim O'Kelly.
A look back at the 1954 film "NEW FACES" starring Eartha Kitt, Alice Ghostley, Ronny Graham, Robert Clary and Paul Lynde.
A review of Ted Post's 1968 western HANG 'EM HIGH" starring Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Bruce Dern and Ben Johnson.
A peek at the 1961 Raymon Phelan/Doris Wishman film "NUDE ON THE MOON" starring Marietta.
A look back at Russ Meyer's 1959 "THE IMMORAL MR. TEAS".
A review of Terence Fisher's 1964 horror film "THE GORGON" starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco.
A review of the 1957 horror film "I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF" starring Michael Landon.
A review of Byron Haskin's 1954 "THE NAKED JUNGLE" starring Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston.
A review of Woody Allen's 1972 comedy "EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)".
A review of Sharon McKnight's 1976 film "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FLEA" starring Jean Jennings, Paul Thomas and Annette Haven.
A look back at John Sturges' 1968 film of Alistair MacLean's "ICE STATION ZEBRA" starring Rock Hudson, PatrickMcGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Browm.
A review of Jean Renoir's film of Jans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl", "LA PETITE MARCHANDE D'ALLUMETTES" starring Catherine Hessling.
A review of John Guillerman's all-star deathtrap "THE TOWERING INFERNO" starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway and William Holden.
A brief look back at Ralph Bakshi's 1977 animated fantasy "WIZARDS".
A look back at Tod Browning's 1932 "FREAKS" starring Wallace Ford and Olga Baclanova.
A review of Mark Robson's 1974 disaster film "EARTHQUAKE" starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and George Kennedy.
A review of Tim Burton's SF satire "MARS ATTACKS!" starring Jack Nicholson, Rod Steiger, Martin Short, Jim Brown and Lisa Marie.
A review of Stanley Kubrick's inaugural cinema offering, the 1951 short subject "DAY OF THE FIGHT".
A review of John Badham's 1979 "DRACULA" starring Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan and Laurence Olivier.
A look at William Rostler's 1971 crime drama "THE GODSON" starring Jason Yukon, Lois Mitchell and Uschi Digard
A review of Norman Jewison's 1973 "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR" starring Carl Anderson, Ted Neeley and Yvonne Elliman.
A review of Sydney Pollack's distinctive 1975 spy thriller "THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR" starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson and Max von Sydow.
A review of Chris Sanders and Kirk DiMicco's 2013 animated feature "THE CROODS" featuring the voices of Nicholas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.
A look back at Dennis Donnelly's 1978 "THE TOOLBOX MURDERS" starring Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Marianne Walter.
A look at Alfonso Cuaron's 2013 outer space thriller "GRAVITY" starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
A review of Sidney Lumet's 1974 film of Agatha Christie's "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Wendy Hiller, Ingrid Bergman and Richard Widmark.
A look at the 2005 Fenton Bailey-Randy Barbato documentary "INSIDE DEEP THROAT".
A review of Henry Hathaway's 1969 "TRUE GRIT" starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell.
A review of Arthur Penn's 1976 western "THE MISSOURI BREAKS" starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson.
A brief look at John Huston's 1973 "THE MACKINTOSH MAN" starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason.
A review of Roger Corman's trio of stories by Edgar Allan Poe, 1962's "TALES OF TERROR" starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Joyce Jameson and Basil Rathbone.
A look at Joseph Losey's final film, 1985's "STEAMING" starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles and in her final screen appearance Diana Dors.
A review of Sam Raimi's 1995 ode to the spaghetti western, "THE QUICK AND THE DEAD", starring Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman and Leonardo DiCaprio.
A look at Armando Crispino's 1975 giallo "MACCHIE SOLARI" starring Mimsy Farmer and Barry Primus.
A look at Elliot Gould, Candice Bergen and Jeff Corey in Richard Rush's 1970 "GETTING STRAIGHT".
A review of Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 documentary "LET IT BE" starring The Beatles.
A look at Hilton Edwards' 1953 ghost story "RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL" starring Orson Welles and Michael Laurence.
A review of Michael Armstrong's 1970 blood and gore fest "MARK OF THE DEVIL" starring Herbert Lom and Udo Kier.
A look at Hal Ashby's 1973 film "THE LAST DETAIL" starring Jack Nicholson, Otis Young and Randy Quaid.and
A review of Jack Cardiff's 1968 "THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE" starring Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon.
A review of Eugene Lourie's 1961 "GORGO" starring Bill Travers and William Sylvester.
A review of the 1973 comedy "SLEEPER" starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
A review of Tom Hooper's 2012 musical film "LES MISERABLES" starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.
A review of Seth MacFarlane's 2012 comedy "TED" starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis.
A review of Woody Allen's 1992 "SHADOWS AND FOG" starring Allen and Mia Farrow.
A brief look at Marv Newland's equally brief 1969 film "BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA".
A look at Steven Soderbergh's 2009 "THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE" starring Sasha Grey and Chris Santos.
A review of Marvin J. Chomsky's 1971 "EVEL KNIEVEL" starring George Hamilton and Sue Lyon.
A look at the 1953 U.P.A. animated short based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, "THE TELL-TALE HEART", narrated by James Mason.
A review of Otto Preminger's 1955 "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kin Novak.
A look back at Mark Robson's exciting World War II drama "VON RYAN'S EXPRESS" starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.
A review of Robert Schwentke's 2010 comic thriller "RED" starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Brian Cox.
A brief look at Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller "OUTBREAK" starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman.
A look at two of the earliest fillms inspired by the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe, two 1909 shorts by D.W. Griffith, "EDGAR ALLEN POE" and "THE SEALED ROOM".
A look back for Ed Wood's 1954 crime drama "JAIL BAIT" starring Dolores Fuller, Clancy Malone and Steve Reeves.
A review of the illustrated children's book with a silent cinema backdrop, "SILENT DREAMS" by Dandi Daley Mackall, illustrated by Karen A. Jerome.
A look back at Jack Smight's 1977 doomsday not-so-thriller "DAMNATION ALLEY" starring George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dominique Sanda & Paul Winfield.
A review of the Coen Brothers 2010 remake of "TRUE GRIT" starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.
A review of the 4 film DVD set TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: SCI-FI ADVENTURES featuring "THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS", "THEM!", "SATELLITE IN THE SKY" and "WORLD WITHOUT END".
A review of the double billed DVD featuring the 1953 Vincent Price chiller "HOUSE OF WAX" and the original 1933 version "MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM starring Fay Wray.
A review of the RAY HARRYHAUSEN GIFT SET DVD collection featuring four of the special effects wizard's efforts from the 1950's.
A review of the 1981 Georges Lautner spy thriller "LE PROFESSIONEL" starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
A look at Luciano Ercoli's 1970 giallo "LE FOTO PROIBITE DI UNA SIGNORA PER BENE" starring Dagmar Lassander.
A review of Tom Gries' 1969 western adventure "100 RIFLES" starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds.
A review of Arnold Laven's 1957 mutant monster-on-the-loose thriller "THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD" starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton.
A look back at Darryl F. Zanuck's 1962 D-Day epic "THE LONGEST DAY" starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Richard Todd, Jeffrey Hunter, Red Buttons and Richard Burton.
A short peek at Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 experiment in 3-D "DIAL M FOR MURDER" starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly.
A review of Robert Wiene's 1920 "DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI" starring Werner Krauss. Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
A Review of the 1925 Rupert Julian film "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin.
A look back at Jack Hill's rather silly 1975 girl gang drama "THE SWITCHBLADE SISTERS" starring Robbie Lee and Monica Gayle.
A look back at the original rat pack: Daniel Mann's 1971 "WILLARD" starring Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine.
A review of the Ed Wood authored how-to-succeed-in-Hollywood book "HOLLYWOOD RAT RACE".
A review of Hikmet Avedis' 1974 exploitation opus "THE TEACHER" starring Angel Tompkins, Jay North and Anthony James.
A look at John Sturges' 1967 revisionist western "HOUR OF THE GUN" starring James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan.
A look back at Kurt Neumann's 1957 SF epic "KRONOS" starring Jeff Morrow and Barbara Lawrence.
A review of Roy Ward Baker's 1973 horror anthology "THE VAULT OF HORROR" starring Terry-Thomas and Daniel Massey.
A look at Freddie Francis' 1972 adaptation of 1950's horror comics "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" starring Peter Cushing and Joan Collins.
A review of John Wayne's controversial 1968 Vietnam War film "THE GREEN BERETS".
A look at Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 "ALPHAVILLE" starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina.
A look at Raoul Walsh's 1928 "SADIE THOMPSON" starring Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore and Walsh.
A review of Jeff Nichols' 2013 rural coming-of-age drama "MUD" starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan and Sam Shepard.
A look back at Joesph Sargent's 1970 SF thriller "COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT" starring Eric Braeden and Susan Clark.
A look at Joseph M. Newman's 1955 Technicolor SF epic "THIS ISLAND EARTH" starring Rex Reason, Faith Domergue and Jeff Morrow.
A review of Derek Cianfrance's "THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES" starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes.
A review of John Madden's 2011 thriller "THE DEBT" starring Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain and Tom Wilkinson.
A review of Paul Morrissey's sexually charged 1973 3-D horror film "ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN" starring Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro.
A nurse, a Frenchman and an island named Bali Ha'i. A review of Joshua Logan's 1958 film of Rogers & Hammerstein's "SOUTH PACIFIC" starring Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr and Ray Walston.
A review of Simon Curtis' 2011 "MY WEEK WITH MARILYN" starring Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh.
A review of Wallace Worsley's 1921 "THE ACE OF HEARTS" starring Lon Chaney.
A review of Tobe Hooper's vampire/zombie cum alien invasion epic "LIFEFORCE".
A look back at Gerard Damiano's 1974 "THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES" starring Georgina Spelvin.
A review of Terence Fisher's 1952 not-really-a film-noir "STOLEN FACE" starring Paul Henreid and Lizabeth Scott.
A review of Joseph L. Mankiewicz' 1970 "THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN..." starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda.
A look at Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 "THE CHEAT" starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa.
A review of Ben Affleck's 2012 thriller "ARGO" starring Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkin.
A brief tryst with David F. Friedman's 1966 production of "THE NOTORIOUS DAUGHTER OF FANNY HILL".
A review of Peter Yates' 1968 "BULLITT" starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset.
A consideration of Hershell Gordon Lewis' notorious 1963 "BLOOD FEAST".
A look back at Paul Bogart's 1970 "HALLS OF ANGER" starring Calvin Lockhart and Janet MacLachlan.
A review of Michael Winner's 1974 love letter to vigilantism "DEATH WISH" starring Charles Bronson.
A look back at Ken Shapiro's 1974 television parody "THE GROOVE TUBE".
A review of James Fargo's 1976 "THE ENFORCER" starring Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly.
A review of Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.'s 1958 "THE BLOB" starring Steven McQueen.
A review of William Wyler's 1968 musical "FUNNY GIRL" with Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif.
A look back at Robert Gaffney's 1965 "FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER". Enough said.
A consideration of Andre Orrendal's whimsical and spooky 2010 Norwegian mockumentary "TROLLHUNTER".
A review of Joseph Green's 1962 horror film "THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE".
A look at Lee Van Cleef and Jim Brown in John Guillerman's 1970 western "EL CONDOR".
A review of Robert Wise's 1975 "THE HINDENBURG" starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancrift and Roy Thinnes.
A review of the 1966 Raquel Welch dinosaur blockbuster "ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.".
A review of Ernest B, Schoedsack's 1940 Technicolor thriller "DR. CYCLOPS".
A look at the 1970 SF drama "THE MIND OF MR. SOAMES" starring Terence Stamp. Robert Vaughn and Nigel Davenport.
A review of Bo Widerberg's 1967 "ELVIRA MADIGAN".
Jindrich Polak's influential 1963 Czech SF epic "IKARIE XB-1".
The 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz superproduction "CLEOPATRA" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton.
Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi and Richard Jaeckel star in the 1968 SF film "THE GREEN SLIME".
Hyper-cool Robert Lansing walks through walls in the 1959 SF thriller "4D MAN", co-starring ultra-sexy Lee Meriwether.
George Pal destroys the world in brilliant Technicoclor in his 1951 extravaganza "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE".
Just a click away to an oasis for refreshing the overworked Critical Mind.
Michelangelo Antonioni's neglected "Identificazione di una donna" relinquishes the metaphysical mire which had plagued the director for over a decade, and offered an introspective view of life, creation, sex and love. A film worthy of attention and serious reappraisal.
Federico Fellini's 1953 masterwork "I vitelloni", his greatest, most personal and ultimately most influential work.
For cryin' out loud, watch your fingers because if he hasn't had his peanut butter, he gets really cranky!
Converting Populist Stooges Into Critical Thinkers In The Blink Of An Eye!
Jane Fonda stars in Roger Vadim's 1968 outer space sex comedy, but is it worth the trip in the old Pontiac or does it crash and burn on take-off? Read the review at NITES AT THE DRIVE-IN CINEMA to find out.
The essential 1967 Russian film "Viy" was actually the first horror film produced in the Soviet regime.
...and probable Populist finks Boris and Natasha.
"La Dolce Vita" (Nino Rota)
"O Lucky Man!" (Alan Price)
Stephane Audran in Claude Chabrol's meditative psychological suspense film "Le boucher" virtually redefines how thrillers should be conceived, by concentrating solely on character rather than narrative, the finale of the film, rather than the standard increase in tension, achieves a far more satisfying sense of personal tragedy.
"Hatari!" (Henry Mancini)
