On July 8th Warner Home Video will be releasing John Boorman’s 1967 crime classic POINT BLANK starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson on Hi-Def Blu Ray. Point Blank is one of several film adaptations based on author Donald E. Westlake’s Parker character. The others being Made in U.S.A, The Split, […]
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We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays “Dirty” Harry Callahan a rebellious San Francisco police homicide inspector who is investigating the killing of a woman by a serial killer called Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) […]
“Bluto’s right. Psychotic… but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid […]
“Dyin ain’t much of a livin boy” With his fourth directorial outing The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood headed back into familiar western genre territory, this time telling the Civil War era tale of a Missouri farmer whose wife and son are murdered by a band of corrupt Union […]
The 1970s was an incredible decade for cinema. One of my personal favorite films from that era is Don Siegel’s crime thriller Charley Varrick. Story has it Siegel’s pal Clint Eastwood was originally supposed to star in the film, but the part ended up going to the late great Walter […]