A Friday Night Lights Appreciation: The Best of Times
“Bakersfield must be destroyed!” Usually around this time of year, I’ll start watching darker, some would say horrific, fare as the autumn builds toward Halloween. My colleague…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: The Dirty Dozen
Two things drove this particular Forgotten Film post. First, since good friends and colleagues Paula (of Paula’s Cinema Club) and Kevin (aka Jack Deth) hosted and…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: Sorcerer
Whether some things are doomed to failure because of bad timing on their release, or in combination with a lack of understanding by those (few) that…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: Red Sun
It’s funny how fish-out-of-water concepts make their way on to films. Specifically, when characters and cultures find themselves literally on foreign soil. For instance, East meets West tales…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: Daylight
dis•as•ter |diˈzastər| noun – a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of life adjective – denoting…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: The Yakuza
There are instances when an actor, or director, tries something so different and foreign just to stretch themselves in their film craft… or to get a…
Read articleFriday Forgotten Film: Hickey & Boggs
There are films that instantly garner acclaim and are lauded for being big groundbreaking movie experiences. Sometimes it was even true. And the 70s had plenty…
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