*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…
*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…
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*contains spoilers Another movie, albeit with a computer on a smaller scale, is the forgotten Australian thriller Crosstalk (1982). Here an eavesdropping computer plays peeping tom to a murder in what is a kind of Rear Window with computers and one that was well ahead of its time. In Crosstalk, it is a privately produced…
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*contains spoilers When did the supercomputer come into being? In fact, has a supercomputer already come into being? Like the movie Eagle Eye (2008), is there already a information gathering supercomputer which can think and pick on individuals – perhaps even determine the outcome of elections in various countries through fudging numbers fed into it.…
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