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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She’s a telephone lineperson by day, an aerobics instructor by night, and now–thanks to a cursed sword–a mistress of the martial arts. Guest writer Todd Liebenow dons black pajamas and legwarmers to review the 1984 actioner Ninja III: The Domination.
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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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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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Guest writer Todd Liebenow looks at the 1934 Warner Bros. drama Massacre, one of Hollywood’s first films to depict contemporary Native Americans life…but still featuring a white actor (Richard Barthelmess) in makeup as the Sioux protagonist.
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One of radio’s biggest stars, Harold Peary brought his “The Great Gildersleeve” character to the screen in four ’40s comedies for RKO. Guest writer Todd Liebenow reviews the second film in the series, 1943’s Gildersleeve’s Bad Day.
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