Welcome back to our latest review series in which we take a look at three classic road movies from the 60’s and 70’s that have important messages. Last time, I talked about Easy Rider and, as I mentioned in that review, the reason I started this series is because I […]
Warren Oates
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Over the years there’s been lots of movies that I’ve heard great things about then finally watched and either was a) impressed by them or b) found them completely overrated (a word I don’t like to use often). One of those many films would be Monte Hellman’s Two Lane-Blacktop (1971). […]
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 […]
FILM REVIEW (145 MINUTE VERSION) “When you side with a man, you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal!” – Pike Bishop Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece about the end of The Old West begins with a scene that was inspired by a story told […]
Based on the true story of the Charles Starkweather killing spree in the 1950s, Badlands (1973) is the directorial debut of Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line). The film stars Martin Sheen as Kit and Sissy Spacek as Holly, two young lovers on the run from the law. Where the […]