Archive for January, 2009

  • A comedy with Fred MacMurry as the hapless coach at good ole State U? Losing season? Job in jeopardy? Bring on the Flubber! Where’s the field goal kicking mule? And...

    Father Was A Fullback (1949)

    A comedy with Fred MacMurry as the hapless coach at good ole State U? Losing season? Job in jeopardy? Bring on the Flubber! Where’s the field goal kicking mule? And…

  • Whenever one of us lovers of Italian trash cinema talks up Mark Gregory as an icon of that world, non fans are prone to write it off as just so...

    Just a Damned Soldier (1988)

    Whenever one of us lovers of Italian trash cinema talks up Mark Gregory as an icon of that world, non fans are prone to write it off as just so…

  • Cary Grant’s second-to-last movie role has him playing a boozy, broken down, self-centered guy who plans to sit out World War II until he gets hornswaggled into being a spotter...

    Father Goose (1964)

    Cary Grant’s second-to-last movie role has him playing a boozy, broken down, self-centered guy who plans to sit out World War II until he gets hornswaggled into being a spotter…

  • Supposedly this touched off a riot down in Mexico when in premiered way back in 1968. I can only assume that the premiere of this movie must have preempted the...

    Fando & Lis (1968)

    Supposedly this touched off a riot down in Mexico when in premiered way back in 1968. I can only assume that the premiere of this movie must have preempted the…

  • War Bus Commando is obviously the most famous Johnny Hondo adventure, mainly because it features Johnny Hondo. Soldier Of Fortune is the less famous Johnny Hondo entry in the series...

    Soldier Of Fortune (1987)

    War Bus Commando is obviously the most famous Johnny Hondo adventure, mainly because it features Johnny Hondo. Soldier Of Fortune is the less famous Johnny Hondo entry in the series…

  • A blind girl gets a new set of peepers which allow her to see for the first time since she was a tot, but there’s a catch. Not only is...

    The Eye (2002)

    A blind girl gets a new set of peepers which allow her to see for the first time since she was a tot, but there’s a catch. Not only is…

  • From the absurdly spectacular slow motion shoot out on the docks that opens the film all the way until star Charles Napier (Hornsby) banters with his local partner Rodriguez and...

    Mean Tricks (1992)

    From the absurdly spectacular slow motion shoot out on the docks that opens the film all the way until star Charles Napier (Hornsby) banters with his local partner Rodriguez and…