“I didn’t start shooting at anyone that didn’t start shooting at me first.”
Synopsis:
“Dirty” Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) hunts down a team of rookie cops who are murdering notorious criminals.
Genres:
Clint Eastwood Films
Police
Vigilantes
Response to Peary’s Review:
Peary notes that this second installment in the “Dirty Harry” franchise “lacks the gritty feel and stylistic impositions of the original” [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2008 by admin
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“Something is making the worms go crazy…”
Synopsis:
A city boy (Don Scardino) visiting his girlfriend (Patricia Pearcy) and her family (Jean Sullivan and Fran Higgins) in a backwoods Georgian town discovers that an electrical storm has triggered an onslaught of killer earthworms.
Genres:
Deep South
Horror
Killer Animals
Response to Peary’s Review:
Peary is far too generous in his assessment of [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2008 by admin
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“This murder will happen again, just as it did before — in the Black Room!”
Synopsis:
In a desperate attempt to prevent an ancient family prophecy from coming true, a despotic baron (Boris Karloff) kills and impersonates his noble twin brother.
Genres:
Historical Drama
Mistaken Identities
Royalty and Nobility
Twins
Review:
This unassuming period thriller about fratricide, ancient familial prophecies, and lust for [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by admin
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“We’re not going to leave you alone until I get the ring, okay?”
Synopsis:
A precocious Greek gypsy boy (Angelo Evans) and his brother try to retrieve a family ring stolen by a conniving Russian gypsy (Steve Tsigonoff).
Genres:
Coming-of-Age
Gypsies
New York City
Review:
Fourteen years before producing and directing The Apostle (1997), Robert Duvall helmed this neo-realist indie film about [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by admin
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“It isn’t every day a girl gets murdered!”
Synopsis:
When the friend (Joan Blondell) of an heiress (Carole Landis) is accidentally murdered, her ghost enlists the help of Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) in identifying the killer.
Genres:
Amateur Sleuths
Comedy
Fantasy
Ghosts
Murder Mystery
Review:
Roy Del Ruth directed this final installment in the inexplicably popular Topper trilogy, which banks on much of what [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by admin
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