A rollicking comic spoof of a disaster that kills off anyone over 25, leaving a "road warriors" tribalism based around the hippies, the jocks, and the bikers. Much of the film is nothing but strung together vignettes and "deep" thoughts shoe-horned into the mouths of the various characters portrayed by the likes of Budd Cort,…

I Saw A Film! This 1963 follow-up to A Mouse that Roared no longer has Peter Sellers (playing any, let alone multiple roles) and while the story is more fun in that very dry British humor sense, it's much harder to follow. It's much like trying to glean action from reading dialog. Almost everything, in…

Again, in that strange spell of the early sixties, where big hair-dos and Frankie and Annette (they're both in this, though Annette only briefly, and wonderfully placed) are king and queen, we have one of these painful comic romps (granted aimed at a G audience), full of inept, sexless people, lead by Dwayne Hickman, fresh…

The long line of great blaxploitation films does not get much better than this example of the ghetto gangster, rags to riches story. And there is no action star better suited to it than Fred Williamson. From lowly bootblack to numbers courier and finally a hit-man himself dedicated to owning the streets, Tommy upsets his…

The original Bronson thriller was a far more dark and weird version than the more recent Jason Statham remake. I'm not sure why the older films are more psychotic, or even if I can really say that the likes of Dirty Harry, Rat Patrol, or another Bronson vehicle Death Wish really were more openly violent…

Basically a premise for showing off some boobs (never a bad thing) a journalism student decides, against her beau's more radical wishes, to infiltrate the cheerleading squad to first-hand understand how women are demeaned and oppressed by sports, or culture or whatever. What she finds instead is a vile betting scheme that eventually demands the…

Another sweet Dean Martin variation on the superspy fantasy hero, loaded with the era's swinging cool, and crooner tunes. Played largely for laughs, but also devoted to and rooted in the early sixties kitsch and cool. When Dean's Matt Helm, is push-buttoning his way through his morning booze automation after spending the night with one…

An amazingly wild fantasy featuring an amusing western gun-slinger tasked with escorting a lovely gypsy "princess" back to Spain. Bizarrely, the Europe our protagonists land in seems to be undergoing several various millennia of historic upheavals including Moors, and what looks like Alaric the Great and a Shakespeare quoting nobleman as well as a variety…

I Saw A Film! As a lad I watched hours of the old Gerry Anderson serial that pitted high-tech flying craft equipped with surprising capabilities against immanent dangers. I could still draw you crude pictures of the five principal crafts and for a long time joked that my van carrying my bike was Thunderbird 2…

I Saw A Film! Watching Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi hamming around as a pair of exaggeratedly dumb men, telling unconvincing tales of lady conquest and bravado is painful, unfunny, and not at all sexy. And while this thing is a David Mamet play, I am quite surprised to see that that is the case.…