Night Slaves (1970)
You may notice that all week I’ve talked about how great 70s TV movies are. That’s because they have great pedigrees. Take a look at Night Slaves, which was based on a book written by Jerry Sohl (Die, Monster, Die!; The Crimson Cult and episodes of The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone and Star Trek) and directed by Ted Post, who […]
Escape (1971)
A feel like a broken record saying this, but John Llewellyn Moxey made so many different styles of movies and I really love every single one. Take this failed pilot, in which Cameron Steele (Christopher George!) is a former escape artist turned private investigator into the unknown. The unknown in this case being the secret […]
The Last Child (1971)
In the future, overpopulation has created a world in which people are allowed to have only one child and are denied all medical care when they turn 65. So, you know, it’s pretty much halfway close to the world we live in. Another film in the storied career of John Llewellyn Moxey, this was written […]
Isn’t It Shocking? (1973)
John Badham would one day make Stakeout, Short Circuit, Bird on a Wire, WarGames, Saturday Night Fever and the 1979 Dracula, but early on in his career he made this made-for-TV movie. Dan Barnes (Alan Alda) is the police chief of Mt. Angel, Oregon. He’s trying to live a quiet life and all the senior citizen deaths and a motel owner […]
Mortal Kombat (2021)
I’ve seen so many reviews of this movie that seem to take great enjoyment making fun of it and saying things like, “Who cares about a Mortal Kombat movie?” Well, I do. I’m the exact audience for this movie, someone who fell in love with the game, saw both of the original films in the theater […]
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