Junesploitation 2021: Keaton’s Cop (1990)
June 16: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie — is a film from Cannon Studios. The ’80s were the comeback decade, for both William Shatner and Lee Majors returned to our small screens with T.J Hooker (1982 – 1986) and The Fall Guy (1981 – 1986)*, respectively. And both were […]
Lee Majors Week Wrap Up
Born in the Southern Detroit suburb of Wyadotte along the Detroit River as Harvey Lee Yeary, Lee Majors got his start like most burgeoning actors of the day: he did his time in a studio-sponsored acting school, in Major’s case, at MGM with acclaimed acting teacher Estelle Harman, who guided the careers of Tony Curtis […]
Lee Majors Week: Musketeers Forever (1998)
An English-French-Russian co-production action flick shot in Montreal, Canada, but set in Las Vegas? And starring Lee Majors and Micheal Dudikoff? And pinching from the Alexandre Dumas classic? Did Cannon Pictures make this? Nope. A company known as Betar Entertainment made it. But don’t worry, they made 1988’s The Ultimate Weapon with Hulk Hogan, so […]
Lee Majors Week: The Cover Girl Murders (1994)
No, this isn’t a VHS retrofit of ABC-TV’s 1984 TV movie The Calendar Girl Murders starring Tom Skerritt. Haven’t you been following along at all this week? So, we have Lee Majors starring in a watered down TV giallo for the USA Network (that eventually replayed on HBO) that grafts Baywatch onto Friday the 13th […]
Lee Majors Week: Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991)
Although cable TV chipped away at their audience, the Big Three networks were still in the theatrical knockoff movie business, with ABC-TV airing this disaster tale on February 18, 1991. While, at first, it reminds of the A-List blockbuster The Towering Inferno (1974), the real inspiration here is Ron Howard’s Backdraft, released that same year. […]
LEE MAJORS WEEK: The Witnessing of Angels (2006)
When I looked through the bionic eye of my Steve Austin figure at four years old, never did I think four decades later that I would be listening to Lee Majors narrate the story of Erik Estrada surviving a motorcycle accident thanks to an angel. How can it get any better? What if Patrick Macnee […]
Lee Majors Week: Keaton’s Cop (1990)
The ’80s were the comeback decade, for both William Shatner and Lee Majors returned to our small screens with T.J Hooker (1982 – 1986) and The Fall Guy (1981 – 1986)*, respectively. And both were shows good ol’ dad and I could enjoy together. And we were both equally perturbed when they were simultaneously cancelled. […]
Lee Majors Week: Spring Break ’83 (2007)
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran on February 23, 2020, as part of our “Box Office Failure Week” of film reviews. We rerunning it as part of our “Leek Majors Week” tribute. If you ever wondered: Is there a film with an almost $20 million dollar price tag that the acting and technical unions had […]
Lee Majors Week: Starflight One (1983)
We ballyhooed the TV career of Jerry Jameson in our review of one of the few times the prolific director was called up to the bigs with the 1974 A.I.P release The Bat People. Jameson was also behind one of the ‘70s quintessential box office “disaster” smashes: Airport ’77, which was backed by Universal Pictures. […]
Lee Majors Week: Hell to Pay (2005)
This movie promises ten legendary Western stars. Those stars would be Buck Taylor (Newly on Gunsmoke), James Drury (The Virginian), Denny Miller (Duke Shannon from Wagon Train), Andrew Prine (who was on numerous cowboy shows but was also Simon King of the Witches), William Smith (who as we all know makes any movie better; he was also Joe […]
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