A Quickie With Lisa Marie: The Conversation (dir. by Francis Ford Coppola)
As a result of my continuing effort to see every single film ever nominated for best picture, I’ve been lucky enough to both discover and rediscover a handful of excellent films that, for whatever...
View ArticleBack to School #13: American Graffiti (dir by George Lucas)
Well, this is certainly intimidating. I know I’ve said this many time before but it deserves to be repeated: it’s often a hundred times more difficult to review a great film than it is to review a...
View ArticleThe Party’s Over: Dean Martin in MR. RICCO (MGM 1975)
Originally posted on cracked rear viewer: It’s an older, more world-weary Dean Martin we see in MR. RICCO, a fairly gritty but ultimately unfulfilling 70’s flick that would’ve made a decent pilot for a...
View ArticleMovie Review: Beware! The Blob (by Larry Hagman)
Everyone has one movie or two that hit them so hard it caused them to develop habits. It could be shaking your shoes to confirm no spiders are in them, counting the seconds after a lightning strike for...
View ArticleMeet Wally Sparks (1997, directed by Peter Baldwin)
Wally Sparks (Rodney Dangerfield) is a talk show host with a program that is so raunchy that even Jerry Springer says, “At least this isn’t The Wally Sparks Show!” Despite being a huge hit amongst...
View ArticleLate Night Retro Television Review: CHiPs 3.1 and 3.2 “Roller Disco”
Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Mondays, I will be reviewing CHiPs, which ran on NBC from 1977...
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