Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Mark Lester can do a buddy cop movie. But a comedy? A movie that starts with John Candy’s character sent up the river and Eugene Levy as the worst lawyer ever throwing himself on the mercy of a judge — Stacy Keach Sr.! — to keep the mob from killing him, with Candy in a […]
The Queen (1968)
Decades before Paris Is Burning and RuPaul’s Drag Race helped normalize drag culture, this film about the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant was there. For many, this was their introduction to the world of competitive drag. Now, Kino Lorber has re-released this film to blu ray after a 2019 theater bow. Beyond the celebrity judges […]
White Rush (2003)
A group of young adults go on vacation — to Salt Lake City, no less — and run afoul of a drug deal. Judd Nelson is there, so you better be, as they say. He even kidnaps Cylon Number Six, Tricia Helfer. Man, the coke is gonna get everyone killed. I can just feel it. […]
Drive-In Friday: Computers Take Over the World
This Drive-In Friday comes courtesy of a free cable TV week of EPIX and surfing their eclectic catalog of films that led me to revisit 1954’s Gog after many years. I remember seeing that early A.I effort as a wee lad weened on UHF-TV — and it scared the sand out of me. Today, eh. […]
REPOST: Bobbi Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Lester makes so many of the movies that we love that we gave him an entire week on the site. This article originally ran on August 1, 2019. Mark Lester’s IMDB list is filled with drive-in and VHS era gold. There’s Steel Arena, Truck Stop Women, Roller Boogie (with Linda Blair, of course), Class of 1984 and […]
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