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• #2,823. Saturday the 14th (1981) - Paula Prentiss Triple Feature

  

  I spent an inordinate amount of time as a kid thumbing through TV Week, the local television guide that arrived every Sunday with the newspaper. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,822. What's New Pussycat (1965) - Paula Prentiss Triple Featuire

  

  A sex comedy written by Woody Allen (his first produced screenplay), What’s New Pussycat is a ‘60s film through and through. It is painfully dated. But at... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,821. Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) - Paula Prentiss Triple Feature

  

  Nobody talks like the characters in a Neil Simon production. I’ve never met anyone as quick-witted as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple or even Ira Parks in... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,820. Brotherhood of Death (1976) - Brotherhood Triple Feature

  

  I went into 1976’s Brotherhood of Death knowing that its cast featured a number of professional football players. Producer Ron Goldman (who also came up with th... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,819. The Brotherhood of Satan (1971) - Brotherhood Triple Feature

  

  Shots of a wind-up army tank - a child’s toy - are interspersed with close-ups of a car being demolished by what we’re led to believe is an actual tank. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,818. The Brotherhood (1968) - Brotherhood Triple Feature

  

  Released four years before The Godfather, director Martin Ritt’s The Brotherhood is a mafia / crime film in which a mob boss’s loyalties and sense of honor forc... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,817. Black Mama White Mama (1973) - Eddie Romero Triple Feature

  

  The first 20 minutes of Eddie Romero’s Black Mama White Mama play like your average women in prison flick. There are catfights, an extended shower scene, and a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,816. The Twilight People (1972) - Eddie Romero Triple Feature

  

  The Twilight People is Eddie Romero’s take on The Island of Dr. Moreau. What’s more, it’s a great version of that story, ranking alongside 1932’s Island of... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,815. Brides of Blood (1968) - Eddie Romero Triple Feature

  

  Brides of Blood was the second entry in Filipino producer / director Eddie Romero’s Blood Island series (though not a direct sequel to its predecessor, 1959’s... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,814. Rembrandt (1936) - Alexander Korda Triple Feature

  

  “In the seventeenth century, Holland was a world power, her ships carried treasure to Amsterdam from all parts of the earth. But her proudest glory was the son... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,813. The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) - Alexander Korda Triple Feature

  

  Having approached the stories of Henry VIII and Catherine the Great with pomp and solemnity, Alexander Korda ventures into romantic comedy territory with... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,812. The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) - Alexander Korda Triple Feature

  

  Empress Catherine II, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796, ascending to power following the overthrow of her husband, the... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,811. One on One (1977) - Robby Benson in the 1970s

  

  With a screenplay written by star Robby Benson and his father, Jerry Segal, 1977’s One on One is, in many ways, a by-the-numbers sports film. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,810. Ode to Billy Joe (1976) - Robby Benson in the 1970s

  

  “It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day”.Inspired by Bobby Gentry’s hit 1960s tune of the same name, producer / director Max Baer’s Ode to... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,809. Jeremy (1973) - Robby Benson in the 1970s

  

  It was in my review of 1955’s East of Eden that I first mentioned the book Rating the Movie Stars, published in the early ‘80s by Consumers Guide. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,808. Cooties (2014) - Infection Triple Feature

  

  A word of warning: Cooties is a violent movie. What’s more, much of its violence is inflicted upon children. Kids are beaten, bitten, and brutalized throughout... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,807. Contagion (2011) - Infection Triple Feature

  

  More than 1995’s Outbreak, more than Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, more than Kinji Fukasaku’s underrated 1980 film Virus, Stephen Soderbergh’s Contagion scared... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,806. The Cassandra Crossing (1976) - Infection Triple Feature

  

  A star-studded disaster film in the same vein as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake, director George P. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,805. Gargoyles (1972) - Cornel Wilde Triple Feature

  

  Gargoyles has a few things going for it, chief among them the excellent make-up effects by a young Stan Winston, working on his very first film. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,804. Shockproof (1949) - Cornel Wilde Triple Feature

  

  The fact that Douglas Sirk directed Shockproof was enough to pique my interest. The master of melodrama, Sirk helmed such classics as All That Heaven Allows,... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES