I Saw A Film! Brrrrrack Rain, fell on Hiroshima after the bomb, and that somehow fits into the narrative of this tough, gritty Michael Douglas cop film set in Japan and helmed by Ridley Scott. There is something of a gang war going on and the NYC detectives (Douglas and Andy Garcia) are needed to…

I Saw A Film! I couldn't help it, I dove right back into the sweet, silly genre of spy spoof. Starring the ever suave Dean Martin, who hears his own songs in his head as he's driving around and dropping wisecracks (Perry Como seems to be humorous grit in Martin's potato chips), and a bevy…

I SAW A Film! The title is just a kind of joke, revealed by the opening credits. A joke that bachelors like to level at women who are of an aggressive mind to marry and produce families (aren't they all?). We men are just goofy shills to the wily ladies who trick us into this…

Cheech and Chong, along with a few of their friends from Up In Smoke, and Next Movie (Paul Reubens, Evelyn Guerrero and Stacy Keach), are calculating businessmen, making a killing selling drugs and ice cream while checking out the ladies and strumming their guitar. Under their beach house (not too shabby!) is a hidden grow…

I Saw A Film! Saving the best for last, I worked backwards through the Cheech and Chong proper catalog to land on their first and best counter-culture product (I just realized I'd forgotten about Nice Dreams--so stay tuned). Once again our heroes are slacking their way through a blue-collar existence (though we are given hints…

I Saw a Film! Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll are the mainstay of the blue-collar, struggling class and our heroes in their famous comic guise of stoner ne're-do-wells reveal the heaviness of American social and economic despondency through a series of avant-garde sketches and absurdist philosophy. Cheech and Chong never quite manage to get…

I Saw A Movie! James Caan is a badass. I recently listened to a Marc Maron WTF podcast in which he spoke with the famous actor's son. The son did get across that old man Caan was not the best dad, big surprise, but was definitely a badass. I enjoy Caan in most things he's…

I Saw A Film! For centuries a superhero of African origin has righted the wrongs of the jungle, fighting the good fight from father to son, maintaining the secrets of the purple "Ghost" suit, riding on horseback with his trusty wolf companion back before the big war in 1938. Where various hard-scrabble villains are searching…

I Saw A Film! Were Cheech and Chong funny? My whole life I've tried hard to appreciate these guys. As a youngster in the 70s the kids were doing their bits from "Sister Mary Elephant" to the "Dave's not here, man" stuff the way I'd later be doing Monty Python (are there folks who love…

An Italian Barbara Steele train in which she plays two similar roles (one in a wig), as two ladies, one tortured and murdered by her hubby who finds her in flagrante with a lover, the second a new wife who is tormented by the ghosts of the murdered! And really that's it! Barbara Steele is…