Movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1970 to 1979. Movie polls on movies, movie directors and movie actors from the 1970s.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a ruthless killer who came to be known as the Zodiac Killer terrorized California. To this day, he has never been officially identified. Because of the severity of his crimes (not to mention…
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One of the classics currently featured in our Fan Favorites from Universal Pictures sale, The Sting is the 1973 blockbuster that won seven Academy Awards — including Best Picture. Originally released theatrically on Christmas Day of 1973, this cinematic journey…
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For this week’s Flashback Friday, guest blogger Rick 29 writes about one of the 1970s most interesting films: The popularity of Blaxploitation films had already begun to wane by 1974, just three brief years after Shaft made a box office splash….
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Jack Nicholson played a less-than-successful 1870s outlaw who escapes the hangman’s noose by marrying spinster Mary Steenburgen in 1978’s Goin’ South. Rick 29 looks at the production of the frontier comedy/romance, which Nicholson also directed.
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Ex-vaudevillian George Burns finds a surprise inside his car’s trunk–teenage runaway Brooke Shields–in 1979’s Just You and Me, Kid. Guest writer Todd Liebenow isn’t kidding when he says the comedy just makes the grade as a vehicle for its disparate stars.
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For decades a mysterious, Sasquatch-like man-beast has been said to roam the swamps of southwestern Arkansas…and movie screens, as well. Guest writer Rick29 takes a look at the legend of the Boggy Creek Monster, its cinematic career, and the annual festival held in its honor.
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MovieFanFare marks four decades of tossing confetti, yelling out lines and dancing the Time Warp at midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as one writer recalls his late ’70s Rocky heyday and compares it to a recent theater viewing.
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Join bad movie connoisseur Julian Andre in a classic look at the Italian-made 1978 sci-fi tale Star Crash, starring Caroline Munro as a sexy space heroine and a pre-Knight Rider David Hasselhoff as the son of interplanetary emperor Christopher Plummer,
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“They transplanted a white bigot’s head onto a soul brother’s body!,” read ads for The Thing with Two Heads. Guest writer Barry P. tries to wrap his one head around the 1972 sci-fi cult fave, which starred Ray Milland and Rosey Grier.
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A masked maniac preys on a resort hotel’s females guests, and audiences can see both the killer’s and victim’s perspective simultaneously, in Wicked, Wicked. Guest writer Todd Liebenow offers his take on the offbeat 1973 thriller, filmed in “Duo-Vision.”
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