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During the Great Depression young Addie Loggins (Tatum O’Neal) has been orphaned after her mother dies. At the funeral, Moses Pray (Ryan O’Neal) one of her mother’s ex-lovers, pays his respects. Addie seems to think that he could be her father, but he insists he’s not even though they’ve “got the same jaw”. Addie now has to go live at her Aunt’s home in St Joseph, Missouri so Moze kindly [read...] 
“Boards don’t hit back” On June 11th Warner Home Video will be releasing a 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) the film that made the late Bruce Lee an international superstar. There will be several brand new features included so if you’ve already bought previous editions you may want to double dip (die hard fans will no doubt pick this up faster than one of Bruce’s [read...] 
Terrence Malick’s directorial debut masterpiece BADLANDS (1973) will be released in a new high definition Blu Ray edition from Criterion March 19th 2013. Martin Sheen stars as Kit, a James Dean-esque young man who falls in love with a doe eyed high school girl named Holly (Sissy Spacek). When her strict father (Warren Oates) becomes aware of their relationship the two are forbidden to see each other. Kit rebels by [read...] 
Writer-Director Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi/western cult classic WESTWORLD is set in the “near future” where the technological advances have helped to create a new kind of adult themed amusement park called DELOS is populated by computerized androids who appear to be human and are used to bring visitor’s fantasies to life. DELOS is comprised of three separate worlds vacationers can inhabit: Medieval World (Ancient Europe), Roman World (Ancient Rome) and [read...] 
Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called Marlowe (1969) starring James Garner in the title role. If you watch both these films back to back you can clearly see the differences. One is a traditional story while the other is more of a post-modern deconstruction of the hardboiled detective archetype. We are introduced [read...] 
Every movie geek has a collection of crown film jewels that they go back to when things are getting too watered down, fake or boring. These are like gifts that keep on giving and can be replayed over and over and always deliver that much needed dose of cinematic excitement you need. The characters are your friends, so when you see them again it’s like hanging [read...] 
Fresh off the success of the award winning masterpiece The Godfather (1972), Robert Duvall took a role in this film playing Earl Macklin, a convict who is being released back into society after a stretch in prison. Macklin doesn’t know yet that as he’s breathing in the fresh air of freedom, his brother Eddie has been shot down at his farmhouse by two hitmen. Macklin is picked up by his [read...] 
Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter opens in very much the same way as the 1964 spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars in which “The Man With No Name” (later revealed to actually have a name: Joe/Manco/Blondie) rides into a small town on horseback. The main difference being this character first appears like an apparition from the sunbaked desert. A mysterious stranger (Eastwood) slowly gallops into the desolate lakeside mining town [read...] 
THE FILM Before he became entranced with the medium of cinema George Lucas was obsessed with the world of cars. As a teen he was originally planning to be a mechanic and would hang out at garages and race hot rods with his gang of friends. After a car accident that nearly took his life, Lucas changed his focus and went to film school. Little did he know that years [read...] 
I fucking love Roy Scheider. Whether it be his freak out moments, his L-shaped nose or the fact that he’s also a New Jersey native, he was one of cinema’s greatest actors. He’s best known for his work as Chief Martin Brody in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, but there’s some gems that Scheider has worked on before and after the greatest blockbuster of all-time, and one of those gems is The [read...] |
    
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