Sequels, like the slick private dick that gets all the chicks himself, always have that pressure to perform when the heat is on. No matter
Tag: 1970s
The Enforcer
By the third time Clint Eastwood dusted off his 44. Magnum, pulled on a pair of $29.50 slacks and did that swept back thing with
Shaft’s Big Score!
Exploding onto the scene in 1971 with possibly one of the most notorious theme tunes in cinema history, Shaft grabbed everybody’s attention thanks to his
Magnum Force
Right up to the moment the titular hero turned his maniacal nemesis into the equivalent of a human polo mint with a slug from his
Shaft
Anyone unfamiliar with the blaxploitation pictures of the 70’s usually pictures the more cartoonish end of the spectrum with glorified pimps dressed in garish refinery,
Dirty Harry
The image of Clint Eastwood chewing on a cigar, wrapped in a poncho and squinting at his enemies from underneath a dusty cowboy hat is
Rollerball
Making futuristic movies in a time when the ability to realise said worlds is heavily limited is tough. Not only can you get bizarrely dated
Cross Of Iron
What with lunatic/maverick filmmaker Sam Peckenpah’s proclivity for fashioning incredibly brutal adventures featuring unfeasibly grizzled men trying to find a sliver of decency in horrific
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The intergalactic mac daddy of TV shows boldly going over to the medium of film, Star Trek didn’t exactly have the triumphant start you would
Damien: Omen II
I’ve mentioned this a couple of other times around these parts, but the spiritual link between the Omen and Final Destination franchises is fairly well
The Poseidon Adventure
When you’re asked to think of the undisputed titans of the disaster movie, chances are the first couple of names that pop into your head
The Omen
Any movie that decided to deal with the devil immediately after the release of William Friedken’s The Exorcist in 1973 was surely damned to spend
The Island Of Dr Moreau
Fate hasn’t been kind to the various attempts Hollywood has made to realise H.G. Wells’ epic novel of science run amok and although cinema’s first
Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
While the title evokes images of the legendary adventurer running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art in order to get in shape
The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad
After the great Ray Harryhausen gifted the world with the vibrant 7th Voyage Of Sinbad back in 1958 (the first colour movie to employ his
Black Christmas
Back in the glory days of the slasher genre, Christmas themed stalk and stab flicks were suprisingly prevalent. Such sleazy gore fests such as Silent
The Brood
Divorce does odd things to the creators of genre entertainment and I’m not talking about the stressful heartbreak of such films as Marriage Story or
The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin
While still relatively new to the sword clashing and empire trashing worlds of Kung Fu that were brought to us by our friends, The Shaw
Prophecy
Eco-horror is possibly one of the stranger off-shoots of a genre that’s pretty strange to begin with, that boasts a pantheon of various, wonky releases
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Aka. Zombi 2)
Let us mull over the career of Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci for a second, shall we?The undisputed king of trashy spaghetti splatter, the man
