Tag: Charles Bernstein

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  White Lightning (1973)

  October 1, 2019

  1970s, Action, Car Chase Cinema, Thriller

  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… Read.

• Mr. Majestyk (1974)

  September 5, 2019

  1970s, Action

  I re-read the Elmore Leonard novel Mr. Majestyk (1974) for the umpteenth time recently – classic crime pot-boiler with trademark Leonard characters and dialogue. I knew there was a Charles Bronson movie of it, but hadn’t realised that Leonard had written it as a screenplay first then adapted it as a novel. Bronson is the… Read.