On November 12, Kino Lorber will be releasing a newly remastered BluRay of one of our favorite crime films of the 1970s, Don Siegel’s Charley Varrick, starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon, and Sheree North. Synopsis: When small-time criminal Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau) leads a crew […]
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I’ve never much cared for the title The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. To me it’s clumsy and uninformative. I much prefer the clearer-eyed, exploitation cinema-aligned “Subway Hijack!” or “TAKE The Train!” Either way, The Taking of Pelham remains one of the best hijack-themed movies of the 1970s. For […]
On October 18th, Kino Lorber will be releasing Stuart Rosenberg’s 1973 crime thriller THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN on high-definition BluRay. BUY IT FROM AMAZON A tautly directed, thrilling police procedural, the film stars Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3) as Lt. Jake Martin […]
Kino Lorber will be releasing Joseph Sargent’s 1974 heist classic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three on BluRay July 5th (Amazon). Synopsis: A gang of thugs who have hijacked a subway train near New York’s Pelham Station threaten to kill one hostage per minute. Forced to stall the assailants […]
Walter Matthau (1920-2000) and Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) are two of my all time favorite actors in cinema history. My introduction to them as a dynamic duo of film was Gene Saks’ 1968 comedy classic The Odd Couple which had originally been a Broadway play starring Art Carney as Felix and […]
The 1970s had a torrent of awesome cinema as we covered in one of our first features on FC, 50 Furious Films: The 1970s. Crime movies in particular seemed to be especially popular during that time. There was a kind of resurgence in the genre which started in the late […]
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 […]