A Funny Thing Happened. The Movie Started Working: Persia on UNDER SIEGE and the Charms of Classic Action
From the perspective of 2022, Under Siege sounds ridiculous. Die Hard on a ship, with…
Film on the Internet: Lydia Lomeli on KILL BILL VOL. 2
Tarantino films have always been my favorites. When Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 came…
Authoritarian Agonistes: Son of Griff on ’71’s Scopophilic Supercops
In the 1970s, conservative American mythologies confronted historical realities. The Mai Lai massacre, the Kent…
Year of the Taco Break: LICENSE TO KILL and the Good Movie, Bad Example
Over the past 60 years of movies, James Bond has been played by six men…
Year of the Month: Persia on CAPTAIN BLOOD
It almost sounds like a “walk into a bar” joke: three actors — a swashbuckler,…
Life Before STAR WARS: Dead Genres
A Bridge Too Far doesn’t really have much in common with Star Wars, but in…
Life Before STAR WARS: The Winners
As far as action stars go, though, the ‘70s didn’t have a bigger one than…
Life Before STAR WARS: Trendchasers
King Kong was far from the last attempt to jump on the Jaws bandwagon. Columbia…
Year of the Month: James Williams on SORCERER
In 1977, two directors capitalized on their previous films’ world-beating successes by releasing their newest…
Year of the Month: Désirée I. Guzzetta on What It Was Like to Be a Kid When STAR WARS Came Out
In 1977, I was barely a teen and a voracious reader of science fiction and…