Rancho Deluxe (1975)

Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a hang-out movie but also a wavelength. Whether you enjoy it or not is dependent on your taste for something plotless, loose and low-key. Plus if you find a young Jeff Bridges and a young Sam Waterson to be a charismatic pair of actors to hang out with (though you will […]

Rituals (1977)

Pure Cinema Podcast talked about Rituals (1977) aka The Creeper so many times across different episodes that I just had to finally watch it. It’s basically a Deliverance knock-off shot in Ontario, Canada with the late, great Hal Holbrook in the lead; apparently he was paid one sixth of the movie’s budget and he’s worth […]

Report To The Commissioner (1975)

There’s so much location footage of old Times Square New York in Report To The Commissioner (1975), that it IS its own character, a document of a New York from long ago, crowded streets witnessing a spectacular filmed foot chase or extras interacting with method actors playing cops. This movie is like a lost Sidney […]

Sudden Fury (1975)

Sudden Fury (1975) – aka Moustache Wars as I like to call it – is an entertaining low-budget Canadian Hitchcockian thriller that I only knew about thanks to a Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray release. A seemingly straight arrow type (Dominic Hogan who resembles Peter Serafinowicz) in a plaid sports jacket takes his wealthy wife (Gay Rowan) […]

Across 110th Street (1972)

Jackie Brown is one of my all time favourite soundtracks and I always wanted to watch the movie where it took its opening/closing theme, ‘Across 110th Street’ by Bobby Womack. I was a little surprised to find that the melancholic, orchestral sweep of the song I know was not used in the title credit sequence […]