Netflix is exceptionally daunting. The instant options alone gather around you like an angry mob. The titles confuse you in their obscurity, and your attempt to whittle your options down to a manageable list quickly gets out of hand. Calm down. We’re here to help. Here at LonelyReviewer, Foreign Friday opens your eyes to a …
There’s something about this season that brings back the memories of summers gone by. Memories of friends. Memories of particular nights. Memories of particular songs, sung along to, full-throated, beside 10,000 strangers who, for that one moment, could be considered close friends. And while film can never completely capture that feeling, there are a few …
Sometimes people ask me why I watch so many movies, why I spend so much time reading about, studying and looking for hard-to-find old movies. Now, as a response, I can just present them with a copy of “Make Way For Tomorrow.” This is why I search through old movies. This is something special. Never …
If you’ve seen every episode of “The Cosby Show,” and are disappointed that you haven’t seen Dr. Cliff Huxtable shoot anyone down in cold blood, have I got a movie for you. 1972’s “Hickey & Boggs,” re-teams Bill Cosby with former “I, Spy,” co-star Robert Culp. (Culp also directed the film.) “Boggs,” is a typical 1970s …
‘Across a 110th Street’ is a 1972 film directed by Barry Shear, and starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto. I hadn’t heard of the film (though I’d heard the song) until a trailer festival I went to a few months back. The film looked gritty, violent, and right up my alley, so I threw it …
These ‘best of’ lists are always a bit of a pain to write and to read. You usually start out scanning the list for stuff you’ve seen and loved, and then you probably count the number of movies you’ve seen. Sometimes you finish the list feeling like you’ve seen the right things, and sometimes you …
In Italy in the early 1970s the spaghetti western fad was slowly dying and filmgoer’s attention was now turning to poliziotteschi, a cop-and-robber brand of cinema that contained high body counts, violence and lawlessness. 1974’s “Emergency Squad,” contained all the elements, presented in an exciting and entertaining fashion.
Director Gianfranco Parolini’s 1969 spaghetti western, “Sabata,” was a surprise hit. So much, in fact, that this film, wasn’t even going to be a Sabata story. However, once the box office receipts came in, “Indio Black,” was re-named, “Adios Sabata.” Unfortunately, the movie plays as convoluted as the story that happened behind-the-scenes.
Riding high on the James Bond/spy wave, some of the most memorable movies from the 1960s are international affairs, with art and jewel thievery being a completely reasonable career choice. Thankfully, 1968’s “Grand Slam,” does nothing to dispel any of these cliches.
There are three words that, depending on your reaction to them, will say what you will think of Alex Proyas’ latest sci-fi thriller starring Nicolas Cage: CGI flaming moose. Thoughts?