Spagvemberfest 2023: Four Bullets for Joe (1964)
Directed by Agustín Navarro and written by Fernando Galiana, Mario Guerra, Julio Porter and Vittorio Vighi, this Italian/Spanish Western comes from just before the genre took off in those countries. Frank Dalton (Paul Piaget) is out to get vengeance for his dead sister, a woman wrongfully accused of killing her husband. It’s a relatively American […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Rogue Male (1976)
Based on Geoffrey Household’s 1939 novel Rogue Male, this BBC TV movie was directed by Clive Donner, adapted by Frederic Raphael and in addition to Peter O’Toole, it also stars Alastair Sim in his last film role. In early 1939, before the start of World War II, Sir Robert Hunter (O’Toole) takes aim at Adolf […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The River Niger (1976)
Directed by Krishna Shah and written by Joseph A. Walker, this has an incredible soundtrack by the band War. It’s based on Walker’s 1972 play. Johnny Williams (James Earl Jones) is a house painter and poet who has raised his family in Watts. His son Jeff (Glynn Turman) is home after failing out of the […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Mr. Sycamore (1975)
From a story by Robert Ayre and a play by Ketti Frings, this is the tale of John Gwilt (Jason Robards), a postman who decides that he wants to become a tree. He plants himself in his back yard and waits for it to happen while his wife Jane (Sandy Dennis) tries everything she knows […]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN BURNING, AUTHOR OF HAND-HELD HELL: THE OUTBREAK OF HOMEMADE HORROR
Justin Burning’s debut book, Hand-Held Hell, is a 376-page, full-color look at 44 outrageous works of underground cinematic horror created during and inspired by the technological, cultural and historical circumstances of the home-spun horror era, including in-depth interviews with 22 audacious filmmakers like Mark Polonia, Nathan Schiff, Tim Ritter, Donald Farmer, Fred Vogel, Brian Paulin […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: A Real American Hero (1978)
Also known as The Letter of the Law and Big Stick, this is a movie about Buford Pusser, except instead of Joe Don Baker, Bo Sevenson, The Rock or Kevin Sorbo, it has Brian Dennehy in the lead. Keep in mind this came out five years after the first movie and a year after Walking Tall: Final Chapter. […]
Jenn Upton discussing Lady Snowblood on Making Tarantino: The Podcast
Jenn Upton, who often writes for the site, is a guest on the new episode of Making Tarantino and she discusses Lady Snowblood. You can listen to it wherever you find podcasts or check out the official Making Tarantino website. Or you can listen to it here:
TUBI ORIGINAL: Hot Girl Winter (2023)
Mrs. Jess Claus (Golden Brooks) is sick of waiting for her husband Nick Claus (Jason Mimms) to stop working and cancel their annual vacation. So to put the spark back in her marriage, she goes to Miami on her own and gets back together with her best friend from college ,Tamira (Schelle Purcell). As you […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: A Pistol for 100 Coffins (1968)
Also known as El sabor del odio (The Taste of Hate), A Gun for One Hundred Graves and Vengeance, this Italian-Spanish Western was directed by Umberto Lenzi and written by Marco Leto, Vittorio Salerno and Eduardo Manzanos. Jim Slade (Peter Lee Lawrence) had it rough in the Civil War. He’s a Jehovah’s Witness, so he […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Proud and the Damned (1972)
Once Confederate soldiers and now mercenaries, Sgt. Will Hansen (Chuck Connors), Ike (Aron Kincaid), Hank (Henry Caps), Jeb (Smokey Robards), and Billy (Peter Ford) have just come from Texas to Colombia. In hours, they’re captured by General Martinez (Andres Marquis) and forced to join the rebels and report back what they discover from them. Will […]
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