C.H.U.D. One of the more interesting failures of the 80s horror scene, this little opus telling the tale of homeless people living under New York City who mutate into cannibal mutants suffers greatly from the struggles that went on behind the camera: The script was rewritten several times to the point that stars John Heard, […]
Cinderella Man Those of us who lived and suffered through the Obama Recession truly have NO idea what it was like to go through the REAL Great Depression of the 1930s, when people starved to death on the streets and violence amongst the squalor was an everyday occurrence. This film from 2005, intended to be […]
City Heat This project, much anticipated back in 1984, marked the first (and only) team-up between the two biggest movie stars in the world at that time, Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. And while there are several ways the film could have been MUCH better, one can’t fault the two lead performances. Clint and Burt […]
City Lights Charlie Chaplin remains not only the undisputed biggest name in silent movie history, but arguably remains at or near the top when it comes to being considered the single greatest movie star of all time. Such was his level of power and prestige in Hollywood that when the movies were switching over to […]
Class Of 1984 When released in 1982, this unsung classic painted quite the apocalyptic vision of the future of American public education, unheard of at the time, where schools would soon become inundated with gang violence and drug dealing, along with the now de facto standard of metal detectors for the incoming students. Director Mark […]
Cliffhanger In his ongoing, career long effort to refine the art of mindless action movies into that of a respectable form of entertainment, Sylvester Stallone tried many different things and many different concepts, usually from his own original screenplays but he was also not above taking the work of other writers and giving it his […]
Clockwork Orange Without a doubt the greatest of all of Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpieces (and that says a HELL of a lot), this 1971 milestone about how a teenage hoodlum (Malcolm McDowell), whose prime interests are rape, ultraviolence, and Beethoven, is captured, sent to prison, and then “cured” through a specialized conditioning / brainwashing technique, only […]
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Director’s Cut Best remembered today as one of Steven Spielberg’s “calling card” films (along with Jaws, Raiders, and E.T.) that established him as THE premier blockbuster director, one can look back at this movie from 1977 and be forced to acknowledge that, along with not aging all that well, […]
Club Paradise This 1986 comedy, a reunion of the director and writer of the Immortal Classic Caddyshack, can best be chalked up as a monumental failure, a project with a promising cast and premise, that bombs mostly because it’s just not funny at all. This viewer counted maybe 4 separate occasions during the movie that […]