White Lightning (1973)

After Burt Reynolds passed away, I realised there was a lot of his movies I hadn’t seen – the ones that were decent, not Rent-A-Cop or anything like that. I watched Smokey and the Bandit for the first time on Netflix and that was fun. But White Lightning (1973) I liked a lot more, which […]

Mandy (2018)

I was really primed with anticipation for Mandy (2028) and yeah, no surprises, but I loved it. Definitely a case of style over substance or that style is the substance here, but I fully bought into director Panos Cosmatos’ desire to create a “1983 A.D.” where lumberjacks, religious cults, biker gangs were all subsumed in […]

The Hot Rock (1972)

With Robert Redford announcing his retirement after The Old Man And The Gun, hopefully another earlier film where he played a bank robber will get new attention. I remember seeing the ending to The Hot Rock (1972) and loved Redford’s walk to the jazzy score by Quincy Jones. Finally sat down and watched the whole […]

Battletruck (1982)

While the original poster looks like an epic sci-fi novel painting, the actual movie Battletruck (1982) is a bit more low budget and muted in colours and dimension. It’s another Mad Max knock-off from the Eighties but shot in New Zealand, using that scenery well before LOTR ever did and also featuring a lot of […]

Hard Boiled (1992)

Considering how much I loved The Killer as a teenager, I can’t believe it took me this long to see Hard Boiled (1992), which was the action classic every one said it was, maybe the height of director John Woo’s craft. Well, I still can’t get over Woo thinking “How can I raise the stakes […]