tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64638745397586105732024-03-13T07:01:47.187-07:00OPERATION: 24fpsREVIEWS, RECOMMENDATIONS, and SUGGESTIONS FOR FILMS THAT DESERVE A FIRST LOOK, SECOND LOOK, DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, and THOSE THAT ARE JUST PLAIN FUN.Rob Talbothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03038223358522509381noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-38054161682174121572012-10-27T21:29:00.001-07:002012-10-28T03:51:19.012-07:00NIGHT SCHOOL (1981)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NIGHT SCHOOL has some good things in it: The look of the killer with the all black motorcycle helmet and the atmosphere and suspense when then killer attacks/chases the girls. These are almost few and far between, because the story turns into more of a police procedural and somewhat of a domestic drama than a straight out slasher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps the setting should have been limited to the college to give it more of a claustrophobic atmosphere. They could have had a WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? type of thing (not ripping it off of course). The focus could have been on the girls more, rather than the professor and cop.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE KILLING OF SATAN</b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-weight: bold;">(1983, PHILIPPINES) a.k.a </span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LUMABAN</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">KA</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">SATANAS</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Dir. Efren C. Pinon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Written by: Joe Mari <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Avellana</span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 130%;"><b>JUSTIN HUGH DICKINSON</b></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">had<span class="Apple-style-span"> been in prison for killing a man that threatened his village. Now raising a family, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Lando</span> is receiving messages in his dreams from his</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Holy Man Uncle Miguel who, along with his followers, has dedicated his life to fight The Prince of Magic and Satan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span>When t</span>hree goons come into </span><span class="Apple-style-span">the village looking to kill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Lando,</span> they manage to shoot him, but they also inadvertently kill his young son.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Lando</span> is laid to rest in </span><span class="Apple-style-span">bed, a bullet wound in his head, miles away on another island, Uncle Miguel is lying in bed as well, meditating.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As he is doing this he </span><span class="Apple-style-span">mentally absorbs <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Lando's</span> mortal wounds into his own head saving <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Lando</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> in the process.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lando</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> is drawn to the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">island by the chanting of </span><span class="Apple-style-span">his Uncle's devout followers. He, his wife, and his daughter Louisa set forth across the</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">short distance of sea. Heavy, foreboding winds pick </span><span class="Apple-style-span">up out of nowhere, trying to impede their progress. They make it to the beach and are</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">met by a strange, mute child who leads them across </span><span class="Apple-style-span">rocky terrain. The top of a cliff explodes, showering boulders. The family takes cover.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">When the dust clears and they come out, the child </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">has vanished.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span>Lando</span> and family are greeted at the village and he is told by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Renzo</span> (the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">second most powerful Magician in the village) that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">his </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Uncle</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> has</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> died from a bullet wound but he had not been shot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Renzo</span> shows <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Lando</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> where his Uncle was buried at sea. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Lando</span> rows </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">out </span><span class="Apple-style-span">there and stops, grasping his head in pain from some sort of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">psionic</span> attack. He shakes it off and continues on. A piece of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">drift</span><span class="Apple-style-span">wood </span><span class="Apple-style-span">bumps the boat. He pushes it away. It floats back. When <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Lando</span> reaches for it this time, a rotten, grey-skinned hand grabs his </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">arm, and a </span><span class="Apple-style-span">decomposed corpse bursts out of the water and says in a horrifying voice, "I am your Uncle Miguel!" Then it disappears back </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">into the water. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is a pretty jolting scene.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Renzo</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Lando</span> are still at the shore when the Prince of Magic and his underlings raid the village for girls. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">They use their <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">hypno</span>-wheel, magic hand blasts and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">psionic</span> staring contests to take down the men and carry off the women including Louisa. </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Lando</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Renzo</span> enter they village while there are a few baddies left. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Renzo</span> tells <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Lando</span> to use his hitherto unknown powers. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Lando</span> creates </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">a swirling force field from his arm to deflect bullets as well as becoming invincible to the underlings' fisticuffs while his punches do damage them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE KILLING OF SATAN </i>is one fun film. It is a </span><span class="Apple-style-span">horror cartoon come to life with </span><span class="Apple-style-span">sufficient f/x, goofy costumes, and some cool/surreal images i.e. the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">aforementioned</span> corpse </span><span class="Apple-style-span">popping out of the water, clear waterfalls </span><span class="Apple-style-span">turning into blood, the pulsar shields </span><span class="Apple-style-span">and firing of magic energy from one's hands, and most </span><span class="Apple-style-span">notably the sequence where a character is </span><span class="Apple-style-span">completely rolled over by a boulder </span><span class="Apple-style-span">revealing his body to be a red, pulpy mess only for his head to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">go right on talking. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">With all this going on how could you not like this movie?</span></div>
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src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aqyX6C7jzQ4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-24257114996795450882012-01-06T10:16:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.442-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b>INTERMISSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZIiHdPqR6Q?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-50772853251487400802011-12-21T08:28:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.533-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>THE 4 BEST CHRISTMAS FILMS EVER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>1.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qxBXm7ZUTM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>2.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yf_I84W-_cw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>3.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/08U_JOv-6_Y?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>4.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QA2fm18OXCA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></span></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-73171709221201486982011-12-21T08:26:00.001-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.547-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>THE 4 BEST CHRISTMAS FILMS EVER</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>1.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qxBXm7ZUTM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>2.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yf_I84W-_cw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>3.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/08U_JOv-6_Y?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-38445824967039588832011-12-21T08:23:00.001-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.516-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>THE 4 BEST CHRISTMAS FILMS EVER</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>1.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qxBXm7ZUTM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>2.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" face="arial" size="5"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yf_I84W-_cw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" face="arial" size="5"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" face="arial" size="5"><b><i>3.</i></b></font></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-37128511842034718162011-12-21T08:18:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.504-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>THE 4 BEST CHRISTMAS FILMS EVER</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>1.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qxBXm7ZUTM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i>2.</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="5" color="#ff0000"><b><i><br /></i></b></font></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-44751358015909170282011-12-21T08:11:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.529-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" size="5" face="arial"><b><i>THE 4 BEST 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center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K1xsTRG-O04?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pL8Hsj_VJRU?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GUorM4nTX7k?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-36838028109768722282011-12-20T10:19:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.453-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" size="5"><b>A <i>SHANE BLACK</i> CHRISTMAS CAVALCADE YULETIDE JAMBOREE!</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000" size="5"><b><br 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/></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><b><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ewUzwFmDKtQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-23458651706283788322011-11-10T04:37:00.000-08:002012-06-12T15:53:33.439-07:0010 TO MIDNIGHT<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PjmPQvc8JU/Ts08UwMgbyI/AAAAAAAAANU/nSSzu2spUv4/s1600/10%2Bto%2Bmidnight%2Bgerman.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:180%;color:#ffffff;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; ">10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> TO MIDNIGHT (1983)</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:130%;color:#ffff00;"><b><i>Directed by J. Lee Thompson</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); white-space: pre; font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:100%;" ><b><i>Screenplay by William Roberts</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:100%;color:#ffff00;" ><b><i>Story by J. Lee Thompson</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;color:#ffff00;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size:130%;" ><i><b>RECOMMENDATION BY</b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size:130%;" ><i><b>JUSTIN HUGH DICKINSON</b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678261032416472866" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PjmPQvc8JU/Ts08UwMgbyI/AAAAAAAAANU/nSSzu2spUv4/s320/10%2Bto%2Bmidnight%2Bgerman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 231px;" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span>In one of the seemingly endless cop thrillers made by that '80s dream team that was Charles Bronson and J. Lee Thompson and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;">produced by Cannon Picture cousins Golan & Globus, this has all the basic ingredients of these types of films. Charlie plays his usual </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;">cynical, bad-ass role, (that by this time he could play in his sleep). As Leo Kessler, he is teamed with his new by-the-book partner Paul McAnn (Andrew Stevens), and is trying to be a good father to his grown daughter Laurie (Lisa Elibacher from<i> Beverly Hills Cop</i>). Of course, there's a psycho-killer, Warren Stacy, (Gene Davis) on the loose in the city murdering women.. Naturally, this gives Kessler no choice but to break police procedure in order to catch him. Obtaining evidence in an unorthodox fashion against the killer allows Stacy to walk. Now Stacy plans on getting back at Kessler by targeting Laurie.</span></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span>This killer's M.O. adds an interesting touch to this well-worn formula. During the day he appears to be someone you would not give a second thought to, but inside he wants to kill. He makes obscene phone calls to his would-be victims using a fake Latin accent that is reminiscent of <i>Don't Answer the Phone</i>. At night he dresses in Member's Only jackets, jeans, cowboy boots, and goes hunting after pretty women. The aforementioned "interesting touch" is that once he finds his prey, he takes all his clothes off and chases after them. He doesn't even wear shoes. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>A neat touch is the scene where Stacy is following a specific girl to kill. The girl is with a friend and they go to a movie. Stacy shadows them carrying an extra pair of clothes that he stows in an air vent. He watches the movie, then when the girl gets up to go to the restroom, he kills her, switches clothes, and returns to his seat making sure people saw him enter the theater when the lights went down and when they went up again. Pretty good alibi. I might be a bit hazy on parts of that segment but that is the gist of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678261915660501314" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FNcd0rKpH-o/Ts09IKiSwUI/AAAAAAAAANg/oZAjIU5YtM8/s320/10%2Bto%2Bmidnight.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 317px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 211px;" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span>There is plenty of nudity and blood in the film, such as when a girl is being chased through the woods you see bush and I am not talking the surrounding foliage here. (Don't you miss the sex, violence, and rampant female nudity of non-watered down '80s movies?)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span>The acting is not as bad as one might initially suspect. Of course it helps to be a Bronson fan going in. He has played this type for so long by this point, but he seems to be having fun with it saying lines such as "I hate quiche." , "Cole slaw makes me sick." Stevens is fine as well, though on a couple of occasions I expected the veins on his forehead to pulse like in <i>The Fury. </i>Lisa Elibacher is gorgeous as always and does a good job with what little there is for her to do. As the killer, Gene Davis came off as a bit stiff, yet ultimately believable. In fact the first time I saw this I thought Davis' acting was so one-dimensional and wooden that he was horrible in the role. The second time I watched it, I picked up on the fact that he was playing this character completely in a screwed up way, dislocated from everything and everyone in his mind. I saw what he was doing and I think his acting portrayed that. Watch his delivery and see if shades of John Amplas' performance in <i>Martin</i> do not come to mind. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span>Perhaps the wildest scene comes at the end when Bronson's daughter is being chased down the street with the naked killer running after her <i>American Psycho</i> style, sans the chainsaw and trainers.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>All in all, this is one of Charles Bronson's more watchable Cannon films. Not his sickest or nastiest (such as <i>The Evil That Men Do</i> or <i>Kinjite</i>), but a cool movie filled with 80's nostalgia that packs a bit of a punch for its off-the-wall weirdness. Also appearing are Wilford Brimley, Kelly Preston, Ola Ray, and Geoffrey Lewis</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is a film fit for a lazy Saturday/Sunday morning. And definitely is essential in any Charles Bronson marathon that one plans to hold.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GwFuxS_ehfI?rel=0" width="460"></iframe></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size:medium;"><br /></div><div size="medium"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff66;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;color:#ffff66;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FNcd0rKpH-o/Ts09IKiSwUI/AAAAAAAAANg/oZAjIU5YtM8/s1600/10%2Bto%2Bmidnight.jpg"></a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-3789716048832031502011-09-24T19:50:00.000-07:002012-06-12T15:53:33.513-07:00Rolling Thunder<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6z2Vx6MiLR0/TuwSWTq029I/AAAAAAAAAVI/SSoKu8BEaGQ/s1600/rolling%2Bthunder.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 317px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6z2Vx6MiLR0/TuwSWTq029I/AAAAAAAAAVI/SSoKu8BEaGQ/s320/rolling%2Bthunder.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686940603908414418" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLfP6vzInaY/TuwPqwZ6PNI/AAAAAAAAAUw/jt1YPODth1I/s1600/rollingthunderpic3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rFOH9oKSe04/TuwEzEmMs1I/AAAAAAAAAUk/ZPLHXSVSFhI/s1600/rollingthunderpic8.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';font-size:12px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;">ROLLING THUNDER</span></b></i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><b>(1977)</b></span></span></div><div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;">Directed by John Flynn</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;">Written by Paul Schrader & Heywood Gould</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>Recommendation by</i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><b><i>Justin Hugh Dickinson</i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffff66;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;">One of the all time great revenge flicks, right up there with <i>Coffy</i>, <i>Point Blank</i>, and <i>Get Carter (</i>the<i> original)</i>, <i>Rolling</i> <i>Thunder</i> stars William Devane as returning Vietnam Vet, Charles Rane who has spent 1,000 days in a Vietcong prison camp. We meet him as he and his friend Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) are flying back into their small hometown. Rane is greeted with a parade then takes the stage, gives a speech, and is presented with a box of 1,000 rare gold coins, representing each day he was in the camp. The festivities end and Rane and Johnny promise to stay in touch as they go back to what was what their lives. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rane’s home-life has certainly changed; not only does his son barely remember him but his wife, Janet (Lisa Richards), has a new guy living with her. Rane takes this all in stride though and fixes up the shed as a place to sleep.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Naturally still holding onto demons from being tortured in ‘Nam, Rane (in great scene) shows Janet’s new beau one of the horrors he endured by having the boyfriend bind Rane’s arms behind him and pull up as hard as he can. This understandably freaks the boyfriend out a bit and shows that, while he has not totally gone off the deep end, Rane has issues.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Then things get bad.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A group of scum bags led by James Best (best known for playing Ernest P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazard”, but also from Samuel Fuller’s <i>Shock Corridor</i> and <i>The Killer Shrews</i>) invade Rane’s house looking for those gold coins. Rane won’t tell them though. Even after they massacre his wife and son and stick his hand down the garbage disposal. They beat him within an inch of his life and take off after tearing through house and finding the box of coins.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As Rane is recovering in the hospital, he is fitted with a shiny steel, workable two-prong hook in lieu of his missing hand. He won’t identify the killers to anyone because he wants to take them down himself with the help of Johnny.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGamNWDamzw/Tuv93MgXr0I/AAAAAAAAATE/2UkQgJoLnS4/s320/rollingthunderpic4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686918079177011010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px; " /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rane begins getting ready for retribution. He sharpens the prongs of his claw to deadly points, saws off the barrel of a shotgun, target practices, and figures out how to load a .38 and shotgun with his hook hand. All the while looking emotionless, unsympathetic--a stone visage behind mirrored sunglasses. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;color:#ffff00;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jyzKCdL8U7o/TuwAqctWo6I/AAAAAAAAATQ/uTShvz7cRXI/s320/rollingthunderpic7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686921158723019682" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 183px; " /></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>He gets behind the wheel of a huge, red convertible, and drives down his road to bloody reprisal. Along the way he meets Linda (Linda Haynes), a cute, blonde waitress, and she joins him on the spur of the moment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw5LpC9hyFw/TuwBY5fS2bI/AAAAAAAAATc/-KadNe2eoik/s320/rollingtunderpic6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686921956722661810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 175px; " /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rane discovers the killers are in Mexico and that’s when he calls up Johnny who is more than willing to join his old buddy since it seems he cannot completely cope with his relatives and the “normality” of being back home.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; ">When they</span> meet up the carnage ensues.</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rFOH9oKSe04/TuwEzEmMs1I/AAAAAAAAAUk/ZPLHXSVSFhI/s200/rollingthunderpic8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686925704915891026" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 109px; " /><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uJs-_-qluUc/TuwEy2lluhI/AAAAAAAAAUY/7ZXSGlN35UU/s200/rollingthunderpic9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686925701155240466" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 108px; " /></span></span><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:arial;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Except for cult film fans or those that saw </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">it when it was originally released, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Rolling Thunder </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">seems to have almost been forgotten,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"> which is a shame. It should rightfully be recognized as one of the hardest-hitting, action revenge classics of the 1970s.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>William Devane has never been better and Tommy Lee Jones gives a great understated performance.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>This is one of Paul Schrader’s best scripts--lean and mean. It could be argued that this makes an interesting companion piece to <i>Taxi Driver</i>, in that they both deal with intense protagonists who are mentally unbalanced (though Travis Bickle could be said to be a complete sociopath) Vietnam Vets drawn into worlds of brutal violence upon coming back “home”.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102); white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffff00;">John Flynn can be a very underrated director. Definitely seek out <i>Rolling Thunder</i> . Some of his other films that are worth seeing are <i>Best Seller</i> (starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy and written by Larry Cohen) and <i>The Outfit</i> (with Robert Duvall,Joe Don Baker,Sheree North, Robert Ryan, Timothy Farrell, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Marie Windsor). <i>The Outfit </i>is a great crime thriller that is finally available on Warner Bros. Archive DVDs. This shows that Flynn knows how to direct, action suspense, and also write (in this instance adapting a Donald Westlake book).</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The main theme song for this film was later used in the opening credits for William Peter Blatty’s <i>The Ninth Configuration. </i></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;color:#ffff00;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-family: arial; ">Currently, <i>Rolling Thunder</i> is officially available as a Made On Demand DVD in widescreen from Warner Archive</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;color:#0000ee;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6m0eqKUqObU/TuwRRCooQ1I/AAAAAAAAAU8/tMOjZ6w2Wsw/s200/rolling%2Bthunder2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686939413924823890" style="text-align: left; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px; " /></span></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLfP6vzInaY/TuwPqwZ6PNI/AAAAAAAAAUw/jt1YPODth1I/s200/rollingthunderpic3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686937656684592338" style="text-align: right;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 200px; " /> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;color:#0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:9px;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Courier New"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:9px;"> </span></span></p><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oZfELsmIbNE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>jhdickinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105095334421356196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6463874539758610573.post-11908854914651555632011-09-24T12:55:00.000-07:002011-12-11T09:06:54.266-08:00Blastfighter (1984)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmYLzUkU5rNxf0BtyyI46zxZ6Erv29oRzwhQ9wXGYvr2fMYsQQaE2mNBYfsrULWAk068jea6INjUWe8DoEI8pnZFYxPBr0BP29Z4emWL8FiT_1BbXZIb8Sa404gt4eulWyMXUulhzRwNK/s1600/blastfighter_poster_01_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Directed by Lamberto Bava</span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">This very entertaining backwoods revenge movie was to be a futuristic, post-apocalyptic flick by Lucio Fulci. Problems intervened, the original story was scrapped leaving only the title that, while very cool sounding, make</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><b>BLASTFIGHTER</b> (Italian, 1984)</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s very little (if any) sense. Nevertheless, director Lamberto Bava managed to make a fun and nasty action film with a few touches of Ted Kotcheff’s </span><i style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>First Blood</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> thrown in for good measure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">American actor, Michael Sopkiw (</span><b style="line-height: 14px;"><i>2019: After the Fall of New York</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">, </span><i style="line-height: 14px;"><b>Monster Shark</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">, </span><i style="line-height: 14px;"><b>Massacre in Dinosaur Valley</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">) is Jake “Tiger” Sharp, a disgraced cop who has just been released from prison after serving an eight year sentence for killing those responsible in his wife’s murder. Upon emerging from jail, Tiger is met by a benevolent cop who shows him this outlandish gun that can just about destroy anything. Interested, Tiger takes the monster mayhem maker and heads out to his cabin in deep woods to finally be at peace. Once he pulls into the small town, Tiger is all but immediately frowned upon by the degenerates at the grocery store, whose only pleasure they get from life it seems comes from harassing out of towners, drinking a lot, and poaching deer. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tiger lets their taunts wash over him and gets to his cabin. In the distance he sees some hunters killing a deer. So he tries his own hand at hunting with his new mega gun, but once he has a deer in his sights, Tiger holds off and spares its life. Eventually, Tiger comes across a fawn and takes it back to the cabin to care for it. He drives into town for supplies with the fawn riding shotgun and when he comes back with his purchases, the fawn’s throat has been slit courtesy of the rotten good ol’ boys. One of said boys, Tom, played by George Eastman (a.k.a. Luigi Montefiore) tries to hold back his “friends” from being the complete monsters that they are, but says that they are going to do what they want. (Even though Eastman is taller than all the other guys put together.) </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tiger has no problem with him and Eastman tries to be as diplomatic as he can, but it just will not work. All that Tiger wants is to be left alone, but the baddies just keep at it, eventually hunting Tiger and his heretofore long-lost daughter Connie (Valentina Forte) who somehow found her dad in a secluded cabin in the middle of nowhere. The scumbags take to raping Tiger’s daughter. And if enough wasn’t already enough, watch out when Tiger finally unleashes the super powered gun. There’s blood, explosions, and there are even some attempts at having your heartstrings tugged at no matter how superficial. You want to see Tiger take down the whole nasty lot of villains and that is what you get. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIau89cPNKj1D5d84TvkagL9ZnODWGZoYwoOYkNEvYSAVGWQeq8jVJS4M35qRmeQiNEl8QUTkRAmi8DXbUqjWKdOj__wU6tx0nenxDCCDfpZzqUDYeEEb10zpMUJa6v9uDyX7nRbnxWqP/s320/images.jpg" width="231" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; color: #f3f3f3; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;">Filmed on location in the beautiful wilds of Georgia, I would definitely count Blastfighter as one of Lamberto’s best. Certainly the best in that he did not have Argento producing and co-scripting for him (that would be the original <b><i>Demons</i></b>). The music is by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis and I really dug the synth music and the honky-tonk country theme. All said, if you are an Italian genre fan, do yourself a favor and check it out. Note: Michele Soavi (Director of <b><i>Stagefright </i></b>(a.k.a.Aquarius, Delirium, Bloody Bird), <b><i>The Church</i></b> (La Chiesa), <b><i>The Sect</i></b> (U.S. titleThe Devil’s Daughter), and <b><i>Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man</i></b>), has a small role in the film as Pete. <br />
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