SAVAGE CINEMA: Dangerous Charter (1962)
Savage Cinema’s last film is the 1962 film Dangerous Charter, the only narrative film directed and produced by Robert Gottschalk, who helped found Panavision. This film was to be a showcase for his new process and camera lenses. Instead, it is 75 minutes that feels like 75 hours, an odyssey at sea that seems to never end. […]
Vanishing Point (1997)
Did you know their was a remake of Vanishing Point? It’s okay. No one does. The FOX-TV Network—back when they were in the business of creating original content, in lieu of reality programming and weirdo-dorky Seinfeld (sorry, Sam) wanna-be shitcoms—retooled this 1971 classic made by their sister film studio. Ack! No one should be poking […]
Me & Will (1999)
So, did you know . . . sandwiched between the ‘60s original and Phil Pitzer’s 2012 revisiting, Easy Rider: The Ride Back, there was another unofficial “sequel” to Easy Rider, which concentrates on a search for the famed Captain America chopper that appeared in Easy Rider? Never heard of it? It’s okay. No one did. […]
Easy Rider: The Ride Back (2012)
So . . . did you you know Easy Rider was followed forty years later by an unofficial sequel? It’s okay. No one does. . . . The existential subtext and counterculture viewpoints (somewhat) of the original are lost . . . somewhere on a dusty, Baja road in this “sequel” (also working as a […]
Drive-In Friday: Fast & Furious ’50s Style Night
Thank the celluloid gods of the analog netherworlds for giving Sam the idea to commemorate the Fast & Furious franchise, thus granting the opportunity to go ’50s hot roddin’ rock n’ roll crazy with this week’s Drive-In Friday tribute. Tonight’s show takes me back to the days when AMC was still known as “American Movie […]
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
After the last film moved away from street racing to more heist movie, this film moves the series into spy adventure, or as I have asked before this week, “When did this little street gang become G.I. Joe?” You can follow a similar path with the Saints Row series of video games, which somehow again went […]
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