*contains spoilers The first killings happen in the first few minutes before Ringo learns the Fuentes Brothers have declared his former town Mexican Territory and do more or less what they like to subjugate the citizens. Ringo’s subliminal anger about all this is shown only by a small twitch in his eye. He is cool…
*contains spoilers Those who are fans of The Dollars Trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – are fans of the spaghetti western even if they have not seen any others beyond them and the associated movie Once Upon a…
Justin Bozung (1977-) is a biographer and author who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. A writer for many magazine publications over the years, he sits on the board of the Norman Mailer Society. An archivist of Mailer’s work, he is the host of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast. In fact, there is a ten-part podcast…
Read more Author and Biographer Justin Bozung on Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance
*contains spoilers Who knows who has murdered who? It’s all a mystery as Hauser presses down on Ryan … Is it a frame? Hauser was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as well and it is probably the best performance of his career as he drinks hard, smokes pot in his office and tops off…
*contains spoilers There are movies that people either absolutely love or hate in equal measure and Norman Mailer’s (1923-2007 renal failure) Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987) has been one of those polarising movies. I love it, and always have since I saw it on VHS back when it was first released in the late 1980s…
*contains spoilers Sorry, but Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) is a good movie. It is not only a good movie – it is a feel good movie! And, for its meagre budget, it is a masterpiece. I have been enjoying Teenagers from Outer Space for well over a decade now when I first discovered it…
*contains spoilers In Where Danger Lives, the couple are railroaded into marriage as the radio declares Faith had undergone “significant psychiatric treatment”. Here the film has a dig at Faith’s depression, her emotional “psychosis” and running off to marry her first husband. As it turns out, Faith did murder Rains and for all the echoes…
*contains spoilers Faith Domergue’s dark beauty shone for a short time in the mid-1950s. She became a star when most women were thought to be past their prime. She survived being a plaything of Howard Hughes and although never a fully-fledged star, or a great actress, she still made her mark in the movies. Faith…
*contains spoilers The second serpent film Venom (1981), not to be confused with the 2018 superhero movie, has a great cast of British actors as well as German Klaus Kinski (1926-91 heart attack) and American semi-legend Sterling Hayden (1916-86 prostate cancer) in his last film appearance. What is basically a siege movie, with a snake…
Read more The Cult of Actor Sam Chew Jr. in Rattlers (1976) Part Two
*contains spoilers Most people probably prefer the Anaconda (1997) movie and its sequels and there’s no denying the original is quite a good one, but I have three snake tales that I can watch over again and still get a thrill. The first is the film Rattlers (1976), which starts off with a couple of…
Read more The Cult of Actor Sam Chew Jr. in Rattlers (1976) Part One
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