by Wrenage | Mar 15, 2024 | Reviews |
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...
by Wrenage | Mar 7, 2024 | Reviews |
Some movies stick in a person’s brain like a spiny egg. One such movie aired on network television in the early 1980s and distracted kids from Pac-Man for at least two hours…with commercial breaks, of course. This movie was an Alien knock-off titled The Intruder...
by Stark | Mar 7, 2024 | Reviews |
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...
by Stark | Mar 4, 2024 | Reviews |
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...
by Stark | Feb 28, 2024 | Reviews |
The not-too-distant future. Io. The third moon of Jupiter. 262,070 miles from the planet. 70 hours from the nearest space station. One supply shuttle per week. Surface gravity is 1/6th that of Earth. Here you can find Con-Am 27, an off-world titanium ore mining...
