Movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1970 to 1979. Movie polls on movies, movie directors and movie actors from the 1970s.
Fraternity-related controversies exploded across the country in 2015. That makes it the perfect time for us to revisit John Landis’ legendary “slob comedy” and contemplate what’s funny about it…or what isn’t.
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Have you ever seen the Ralph Bakshi animated film Heavy Traffic? This 1973 cult classic is a mad masterpiece of kaleidoscopic invention. Let’s take a stroll down (a crazy, grimy) memory lane and revisit this work of wildly irreverent art.
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Made during the ’70s heyday of disaster films, The Big Bus spoofed its more serious colleagues with a tale of a New York-to-Denver trip on the nuclear-powered title vehicle. Guest blogger Tdod Liebenow gets behind the wheel of the 1976 comedy for a review.
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Marijuana’s in the news again, so this might be a fine time to have a look at Cheech and Chong’s first hit stoner comedy, “Up in Smoke.” Do you love it? Hate it? Here’s one stone-cold-sober viewer’s take after a long-delayed first-time watch…
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Is it possible…at all…to arrive at a list of “fundamental” films to view? Movie Irv takes a stab at beginning to assemble such a cinematic catalog, starting with his five essential picks from the sensational 1970s.
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With the Criterion Collection putting their stamp on Robert Altman’s remarkable 1975 American mosaic, longtime Nashville celebrant Movie Irv considers the film’s impact and import, then and now.
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Is Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind a sci-fi masterpiece or an overlong and overrated mess that is beautiful to look at but emotionally hollow? Find out in this review of the film from guest blogger Kim Wilson.
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Boomer Mill: Warner has lately reached into the ‘60s and ‘70s for a crop of controversial, oddball, and—what’s the term?—groovy movies for your enjoyment. A Covenant with Death (1966) Having a Wild Weekend (1965) The Chapman Report (1962) The Cool Ones (1967)
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When Paddy Chayefsky wrote his Oscar-winning screenplay for Network (1976) it was supposed to be satirical. Lensed through the 1976 eye I’m sure audiences found an opinion-spouting news anchor and a network devoted to developing reality-based programming as absurd. To…
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