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Lisa Watches An Oscar Nominee: The Sand Pebbles (dir by Robert Wise)
After watching Witness For The Prosecution, I continued TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar by watching the 1966 Best Picture nominee, The Sand Pebbles. Considering that The Sand Pebbles is close to four hours...
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Embracing the Melodrama Part II #45: Double Indemnity (dir by Jack Smight)
Nothing can make you appreciate a classic film more than by watching a really bad remake. As proof, I would offer up the 1973 made-for-television version of the classic 1944 film Double Indemnity....
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Horror on the Lens: Death Ship (dir by Alvin Rakoff)
Today’s Horror on the Lens comes to use from 1980. In Death Ship, a cruise ship collides with a mysterious black freighter. When the survivors board the freighter, they discover that it appears to be...
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Wild Pitch: THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (20th Century-Fox 1952)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: Jerome Herman “Dizzy” Dean, ace pitcher of the St. Louis Cardinals’ famed “Gashouse Gang” in the 1930’s, gets the Hollywood biopic treatment in this pleasant...
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Horror on the Lens: House of Evil (dir by Gus Trikonis)
Today’s horror on the lens in 1978’s House of Evil! When Richard Crenna buys a new house, he recruits a few friends to help him fix it up. Unfortunately, it turns out that the house is haunted by the...
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A Movie A Day #141: Breakheart Pass (1975, directed by Tom Gries)
California. The 1870s. Sheriff Pearce (Ben Johnson) boards a train with his prisoner, an alleged outlaw named John Deakin (Charles Bronson). The train is mostly full of soldiers, under the command...
View ArticleA Movie A Day #287: Leviathan (1989, directed by George Pan Cosmatos)
A group of miners are sent into a dangerous environment by an evil corporation. When they explore an abandoned ship, they unknowingly bring a hostile creature onto their own vessel. One of the...
View ArticleFilm Review: First Blood (dir by Ted Kotcheff)
First Blood was not what I was expecting. From everything that I had heard and seen over the past few years, I was under the impression that this 1982 film was the ultimate in mindless action. I...
View ArticleFootsteps (1972, directed by Paul Wendkos)
Paddy O’Connor (Richard Crenna) is a former football player-turned-coach whose record of success has been overshadowed by his own arrogance and heavy drinking. O’Connor has such a bad personal...
View ArticleMarooned (1969, directed by John Sturges)
Imagine The Martian or Apollo 13 without any humor or narrative momentum and you’ve got an idea what Marooned is like. Three American astronauts (played by Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, and James...
View ArticleInternational Horror Film Review: Death Ship (dir by Alvin Rakoff)
The 1980 Canadian film, Death Ship, opens with a black freighter ominously sailing across the ocean in the middle of the night. The freighter appears to be deserted but, when a cruise ship appears...
View ArticleOctober True Crime: The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (dir by Steve Gethers)
1989’s The Case of the Hillside Stranglers is based on the killing spree of Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, two cousins who terrorized Los Angeles in the late 70s. Buono owned his own garage and...
View ArticleRetro Television Review: Thief (dir by William A. Graham)
Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Sundays, I will be reviewing the made-for-television movies that used to be...
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