Mikey & Nicky
Elaine May re-teamed with her Luv (1967) co-star Peter Falk for her definitive statement on masculine frailty Mikey & Nicky (1976). May spent a long time in pre-production on the… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
The Shout
With The Shout (1978) filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski adapts the neo-Gothic short story by Robert Graves with all of the grim social allegories that defined the “Polish School”. Essentially The Shout… Read more »
Happy Ever After
With Happy Ever After (1974) I continue to delve into the mammoth Indicator boxed set Magic, Myth & Mutilation: The Micro-Budget Cinema Of Michael J. Murphy. Taking in all of… Read more »
Two-Minute Warning
Well, it’s Super Bowl Sunday, 2023, which means that it is time for me to revisit my favorite of all football related movies: Two-Minute Warning (1976). As is the case… Read more »
Blue Money
Written and directed by actor Alain Patrick, Bob Chinn’s production Blue Money (1972) is perhaps best enjoyed today as an anthropological curiosity. The film, which centers around a pornographer in… Read more »
Freebie & The Bean
As the Super Bowl draws near it’s time for the annual revisit of Freebie & The Bean (1974). Written by Robert Kaufman of The Monkees fame and directed by Richard… Read more »
Prey
Prey (1977) is really a simple story. A humanoid alien being comes to earth in search of a fresh food supply for his race and becomes entangled in the tumultuous… Read more »
Lady Snowblood
Director Toshiya Fujita re-teamed with actress Meiko Kaji for the highly influential Lady Snowblood (1973). The duo had collaborated previously on Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970) and Alleycat Rock:… Read more »
Attica
“Wake up. Stop hiding” is the plea of an inmate that closes Cinda Firestone’s film Attica (1974). Firestone’s documentary Attica was made in the immediate wake of that infamous tragedy… Read more »
Creatures The World Forgot
Creatures The World Forgot (1971) was the last “cave girl” film that Hammer Studios produced. Don Chaffey, who directed One Million Years B.C. (1966), returned to the sub-genre to helm… Read more »
