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Movies Till Dawn: A Surplus of Saturday Morning Strange
“Mako: The Jaws of Death” (1976, Retromedia/Bayview Entertainment) Misanthropic loner Richard Jaeckel uses his telepathic connection with sharks to dispose of those he believes are exploiting his toothy friends. Low-budget thriller by prolific Florida-based filmmaker William Grefe sets itself apart … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Leone, Ringo and the Cowboy from Sweden
“A Fistful of Dynamite” (1971, Kino Lorber) Bandit Rod Steiger comes to regret his decision to team with James Coburn, an explosives expert and former Irish Republican who is lending his talents to Mexican revolutionaries fighting the repressive military regime … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Short and Sweet and Serpico Edition)
“Frank Serpico ” (2018, IFC Films) Well-crafted doc traces the past and present of its subject, the New York cop and whistleblower who served as the basis for the 1973 biopic starring Al Pacino. Director Antonio D’Ambrosio does a fine … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: TV Party 2018
“The Outer Limits: Season 1” (1963-1964, Kino Lorber) Though not as well-known to mainstream audiences as “The Twilight Zone,” the science fiction anthology series “The Outer Limits,” which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965, held its own when compared … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Old Stones and Moon Men Edition)
“Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton” (2017, IFC Films) The visuals are, quite literally, the high water mark in this documentary about the surfing legend by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy. The major points in Hamilton’s three-decade career are … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Vintage Guilty Pleasures and Nostalgic Nonsense
“Code of Silence” (1985, Kino Lorber) Chuck Norris keeps the karate to a minimum in this crime drama, which pits his taciturn Chicago cop against drug lord Henry Silva and a corrupt faction of fellow police. Intended as a vehicle … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Doctors, Cowboys and Presidents Edition)
“Last Flag Flying” (2017, Lionsgate) Vietnam vet Steve Carell seeks out two fellow Marines – hard-living bar owner Bryan Cranston and one-time hellraiser Laurence Fishburne, now a pastor – to assist him in traveling to Washington, D.C., where he will … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: 2018 House Cleaning Part 2 (Actors of a Certain Age Edition)
Here’s a quintet of (relatively) new Blu-rays from Kino Lorber, all starring leading men who, despite being past their prime by Hollywood standards, could still carry a picture through talent, screen presence or an abundance of good will generated by … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange – A Surfeit of Strange
You could spend all of 2018 dissecting and bemoaning the strange, weird and just plain awful aspects of 2017, but on Saturday mornings, I prefer to recall the strange from that year in a entertaining, digital-based audio-visual format and not, … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: 2018 House Cleaning (Out with the New Edition)
As its title suggests, “Super Dark Times” (2017, The Orchard) focuses on the bleaker aspects of growing up aimless in a dead-end town. First-time director Kevin Phillips and screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski understand teenage language and behavior and … Continue reading
