The 1970s were a golden age for science fiction. Logan’s Run, Star Wars, Space 1999, Future Cop. Wait, what’s that? You never heard of the last one? Well friends, you are in for a treat. Future Cop was an ABC…
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’70s Flashback: “The Poseidon Adventure” Is Anything But A Disaster
“There’s got to be a morning after. If we can hold on through the night…” Released in 1972, The Poseidon Adventure helped launch the disaster film genre that dominated the decade. It was a brilliant idea really, bring together an…
Read more →’70s Flashback: Bruce Lee’s “Game of Death” is Better Than Ever
For this latest ’70s Flashback, we are setting the wayback machine to 1978. The airwaves were filled with the sounds of The Bee-Gees and the Grease soundtrack, Superman: The Movie and Animal House were setting the box office ablaze, people…
Read more →’70s Flashback: Remembering the “Grease Day U.S.A.” TV Special
To promote the theatrical release of Grease , the hour-long TV special Grease Day U.S.A. was syndicated to stations across the United States. in June of 1978. A very strange time capsule of late-70s entertainment that ideally should be screened…
Read more →’70s Flashback: Fred Williamson in “Hell Up in Harlem”
The Blaxploitation classic Hell Up in Harlem takes the spotlight for this ’70s Flashback post, but did you realize that the film is actually a sequel? The movie — which is a hugely entertaining film in its own right —…
Read more →Love in the 1970s: Avanti, The Goodbye Girl and Harold and Maude
Love in the 1970s: A look at 3 classics from the 1970s. Avanti (1972) directed by Billy Wilder, The Goodbye Girl (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Harold and Maude (1971) directed by Hal Ashby and starring Ruth Gordon
Read more →’70s Flashback: Logan’s Run
In this latest ’70s Flashback feature–a sporadic examination of some of the Me Decade’s greatest flicks punctuated by various clips–we’ll take a look at Logan’s Run. The film is one of the most gloriously cheesy efforts of the 1970s (which…
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