Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 5 out of 10 This review was originally slated to post in February, but due to the death on Christmas Eve of Charles Durning I decided to post it now. Durning was one of...
View ArticleBetween the Lines (1977)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 6 out of 10 This is a look at an underground/counter-culture newspaper staff and the conflicts and concerns that they have at being taken over by a no-nonsense corporate...
View ArticleHennessy (1975)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 6 out of 10 This review will be the first in a month long series analyzing movies from the 70’s that starred Rod Steiger. Steiger was an interesting performer with a long...
View ArticleLove and Bullets (1979)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 5 out of 10 Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) the one-time girlfriend of mob boss Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger) is being marked for death by him as she has the potential to turn...
View ArticleW. C. Fields and Me (1976)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 6 out of 10 Based on the memoirs from Carlotta Monti who was W.C. Field’s (Rod Steiger) companion for 14 years this film looks at their relationship as well as W.C.’s...
View ArticleWolf Lake (1978)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 2 out of 10 Charlie (Rod Steiger) is a hard-bitten conservative man who lost his 23-year-old son in the Vietnam War. He likes to vacation with a couple of his middle-aged...
View ArticlePulp (1972)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 6 out of 10 Michael Caine and director Mike Hodges teamed up again one year after doing the gritty classic Get Carter with this breezy oddity dealing with a pulp fiction...
View ArticleWake in Fright (1971)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 8 out of 10 To an extent this is a one of kind film that is handled in such a raw and unpretentious way that it is like no other film you have ever seen … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Goodbye Girl (1977)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 7 out of 10 Paula (Marsha Mason) is a ‘dumped on’ single parent, whose live-in boyfriend has just left her, and now must contend with Elliot (Richard Dreyfuss) a rather...
View ArticleNight Watch (1973)
By Richard Winters My Rating: 3 out of 10 Ellen Wheeler (Elizabeth Taylor) is an emotionally unstable woman recovering from a nervous breakdown. Her first husband died in a car crash along with his...
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