With some movies, it sometimes helps to read the small print. Back when I was a mere slip of a lad, I stood in the
Tag: 1970s
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Review
There’s something about a 70s thriller that just hits different. Maybe because it was a decade so utterly berefted of sanded down edges that just
The Magnificent Butcher (1979) – Review
Martial arts movies, especially ones featuring Sammo “moves well for a big fella” Hung, feature vast, dizzyingly complex fight sequences that feature hundreds, if not
Dance Of The Drunk Mantis (1979) – Review
In 1994, Jackie Chan paid homage to his roots and he revisited the role that helped cement his credentials as a martial arts superstar. However,
Death Race 2000 (1975) – Review
Can satire be too ridiculous? I mean, that’s the point of satire, right, to exaggerate things that are occurring in our political or social climate
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) – Review
I’ve always admired the differences that exist between those two closely linked subgenres known as the Giallo and the Slasher film. Of course, the latter
Vanishing Point (1971) – Review
Once upon a time, car chase movies were a different breed other than purely flashy, partially CGI glitz-fests. They were gritty, they were real and
The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971) – Review
Giallo is a weird genre, isn’t it? Like, it’s not enough to be part slasher, part whodunit, but it has to heap layers of psychosexual
Light The Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970) – Review
Over the span of its five installments, the Sartana managed to put together a western anti-hero who had two noticable attributes: The first was a
Have A Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970) – Review
The last time we laid eyes on the notoriously tricksy, gadget laden Sartana, he was going through some sort of identity crisis. Not only had
The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979) – Review
As something of a forgotten staple of the disaster film, the Airport franchise went out of its way for a decade to disprove the fact
The Wild Geese (1978) – Review
As the seventies rolled on, one sub-genre of the war movie that seemed to be getting ever more dated was the man-on-a-mission movie that often
Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin (1970) – Review
During his second movie, the extravagantly titled I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death, the titular gunslinger enigmatically announced that “Anyone could be Sartana”; but
Return Of Sabata (1971) – Review
As the Western began to enter the decade of its eventual and ultimate decline, there was still plenty of time for the returning scoundrels of
The Beast Must Die (1974) – Review
There must have been some primo, top quality hallucinogenics flying around the sets of British set horror flicks during the 70s as such studios such
Airport ’77 (1977) – Review
Flying may be the safest way to travel statistically speaking, but the Airport franchise pretty much did everything it could to disprove that theory over
Force 10 From Navarone (1978) – Review
There’s nothing more gripping than a good old Second World War set, men on a mission movie from the classic years that saw a scattering
Airport 1975 (1974) – Review
Even before the team of Zucker Abrahams Zucker took down the entirety of a genre with a single movie with Airplane!, there was always something
Adiós, Sabata (1970) – Review
If you needed an example of the random craziness of the chaotic, virtually lawless world of the Italian film industry, a perfect microcosm might actually
The Mechanic (1972) – Review
When you pair up the names Charles Bronson and Michael Winner, your brain should instantly drift towards conflicting memories – not unlike an unsettling ‘Nam
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