Retro-Review: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

Retro-Review: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

I was going through some random list of movies I had the other day. The Nutty Professor (1963) popped up and I hadn’t seen it in years. I decided I wanted to see it again. My old man loved Jerry Lewis and had shown it to me as a kid. I remember laughing with him...
Retro Review: THE ICE PIRATES (1984)

Retro Review: THE ICE PIRATES (1984)

Come with me, dear Outposter, as we travel back to a simpler time, and a happier time. It was a time before the internet. It was a time when one of the most important places in a young Outposters life was almost certainly the local video emporium. These magical places...
Retro Review: THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)

Retro Review: THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)

The Parallax View (1974) stars Warren Beatty. It has themes of conspiracy, paranoia, and ends the way movies from the 1970s often end. All The Parallax View lacks to make it a quintessential 1970s movie is satanism…and maybe Farrah Fawcett. But is it any good? Let’s...
Retro Review: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (1991)

Retro Review: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (1991)

With a rare couple of hours to myself, and quite up to date with my TV viewing, I found myself on the couch with a gap in my schedule and nothing to fill it. A lazy trawl through what was available and I stumbled across a movie, starting in just minutes. It was a...
Retro Review: EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Retro Review: EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Smokey And The Bandit, The Cannonball Run, hell – even Forrest Gump, there used to be a fine line in moves that seemed to be pure celebrations of Americana. Blue-collar people from less fashionable regions, frequently involving a road trip of some kind, doing...