Movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1970 to 1979. Movie polls on movies, movie directors and movie actors from the 1970s.
“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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With their Wild West days behind them, a pair of aging gunslingers (Johnny Cash and Kirk Douglas) decides to stage a final showdown in a bull ring and charge admission. Guest writer Mike Perry reviews the 1971 frontier drama A Gunfight.
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After the success of 1969’s Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson went to “B” film actor to Academy Award-winning star in the 1970s. To mark his 78th birthday this week, we’re asking for your vote for Jack’s top ’70 film role: pick from The Last Detail, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and more.
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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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