I Saw A Film! OK I get it, this is what entertainment basically looked like in Shakespeare's day. Billy Wilder channels the god of all ridiculous situation comedy set-ups and let's the dominoes fall. I still don't have to like it, as I don't like Shakespeare comedies either (or the overwrought dramas for that matter--he…

I Saw A Film! There are films that are just plain hard to pay attention to. You can only watch so much of these painstakingly armored motorcycles buzzing around while gas bombs explode and David Carradine kind of smirks in his manties. I remember seeing this as a kid and desperately wanting it to be…

I Saw A Film! Rudy Ray Moore is always a good time. The Disco Godfather part of this is only about the first fifteen minutes, soon enough, he's Tucker, tough street disciplinarian looking to shut down drugs and their dealers through a combination of his patented verbal wit and karate. The only difficult bits of…

I SAw A Film! A great diatribe against the evils of pick-up truck debt exists in this big sky dramedy about a pair of livestock rustlers trying to get over on the wealthy big ranchers and have the ability to pursue some pleasures in life. It's notable that there have been some great stories about…

I Saw A Film! An Abbott and Costello level horror movie spoof loaded to the hilt with weak gags that would amuse no one born after the turn of the last century. Despite a few name actors including Jeffrey Tambor (best known for Arrested Development these days) and Richard Benjamin (I always wished Benjamin and…

I Saw A Film! In the 80s were launched all these kids having a great time films that served to remind us of the sort of lives my friends and I were not living, though, this film set nearby us on a fairly obscure but locally famous beach resort island seemed like a local story…

I Saw A Film! A kind of Dirty Harry, rogue cop out for justice story with a strange comic penchant weaving through the murderous sex trafficking scheme. There's something only the Italians manage to get away with in these movies where lovely women are slaughtered in a kind of pointedly sadistic but stylish manner with…

I Saw A Film! As soon as you see Cameron Mitchell's clean-shaven and already well-aged face (man he was around for a long time!) you know he's up to no good in this "giallo" (I had to look that up, Italian horror/thriller) shocker from Mario Bava. Lovely lady models are being murdered by a masked…

I Saw A Film! Poor Francois Dorleac dead at 25 in a car accident just as her career was about to hit the stratosphere. Here she is as a cute barefoot beach bum alongside the legendary, and quite weird Donald Pleasance as they are overtaken, in their isolated castle (and isolated love-though there's something of…

I Saw A Film! I hated the idea of this movie when I was in high school and I avoided seeing any of the handful of sequels as well as this original. I didn't know this was a 1950's era coming-of-age product. I also had no idea that central to the story was cold-hearted racism…