Taking place eight years after the original, Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, begins with Bobby Carter (Robert Houston) one of the trauma victims from the first film having started a new motocross team. He’s even invented a kind of “super fuel” that gives his riders an advantage. Unfortunately, the next competition is …
Dimwitted busboy and waiter Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) dreams of being more than a punching bag. Patrons mock him and his boss (Anthony Carbone) busts his chops for swooning over one of their regular customers, Carla (Barboura Mouris). Walter longs to be one pretentious, coffee drinking artists he serves at the hipster beatnik bar where …
Bette Davis (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) teamed for the second time with Director William Wyler for an adaptation of the of the W. Somerset Maugham play The Letter. A critical and box-office hit, the film was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture, Actress and Director. Featuring the kind of dark cinematography which would …
After releasing The Apartment in 2018, Arrow Academy has dug even deeper into director Billy Wilder’s filmography for The Major and The Minor. Released in 1942, this was Wilder’s first Hollywood film as a director. While it certainly can’t be considered among her s best, The Major and The Minor does show flashes of the …
Released in 1982, My Favorite Year is a playful and affectionate look at the Golden Age of television. Oozing with nostalgia, it’s allows the always charming Peter O’Toole (The Night of the Generals) to be unforgettably humorous. Written by Dennis Palumbo and Norman Steinberg and based on real people and events (exaggerated for the big …
During a trip to Venice to visit her sculptor father Franco Serpieri (one-shot Bond, George Lazenby) a young girl named Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi) becomes the object of interest to a mysterious, veiled woman who stalks her throughout the city. In time, she is found floating face down in the Grand Canal. While Feeling guilty for …
Director Ron Howard follows up his impressive Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week with Pavarotti, another close-up look at a giant in the music industry. This time it’s Luciano Pavarotti, who, having established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century, he was given the honorary title “the king of the high …
Mean Girls: 15th Anniversary Edition showed up at my door yesterday. Starring Lindsay Lohan, it’s considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law have made her a tabloid fixture and a rare sight on the big screen in recent years. Based on …
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Reminiscent of the great screwball comedies of the ’30s, A Touch of Class received considerable acclaim during its initial release in 1973–including an Oscar nomination for Best Picture–hasn’t aged particularly well. The performances of Glenda Jackson (who won her second Oscar for her work) and George Segal (who won a Golden Globe), are still highly …
Michael Radford’s 1984 is a rather faithful retelling of George Orwell’s novel of the same name. Published in 1948, 1984 predicts the fall of Western Culture. In the year 1984, civilization has been decimated by war and civil unrest. Oceana is the last thriving totalitarian superstate in the world. Ruled by the Party under the …
