Cobra Sylvester Stallone was pretty much in his prime in the 80s, as he and Arnold redefined the action genre for all time. That being said, this Sly entry from 1986 is entertaining enough despite being loaded with flaws and a lack of plausibility. The inspiration is easy enough to figure out: Stallone intended this […]
Cocoanuts Before movies being projected in theaters had really started to catch on with the masses, the primary form of entertainment for most people was the world of vaudeville, traveling road productions that were considered variety shows of the highest order and despite all of the singers, jugglers and other novelty acts that comprised these […]
Color Me Blood Red The last (and least) of H.G. Lewis’ so-called “Blood Trilogy” is also incredibly dull and slow-paced as well. Released in 1965, it tells the story of a struggling artist who in a quest to discover his “voice” (and satisfy a very pretentious art critic) realizes that if he uses human blood […]
Color Of Money The original 1961 film The Hustler was in some ways a bit of an overrated anomaly, in that it popularized the game of pool into the mainstream while showcasing possibly a career best performance by Paul Newman as pool shark “Fast” Eddie Felson, nearly topped by Jackie Gleason’s iconic turn as rival […]
Colors While Dennis Hopper will always be known as one of the great, one of a kind actors of his or any other generation, his rather limited output as a director (with one confirmed undisputed masterpiece in Easy Rider) hopefully will one day be reaccessed and reevaluated in terms of the small number of effective, […]
Comancheros Generally with John Wayne, the rule of thumb was the better the director that he had to work with, the better the film itself would turn out to be. This release from 1961 saw Wayne teaming up with Michael (Casablanca) Curtiz, who ironically was dying from cancer during filming, prompting Wayne himself to take […]
Coming To America Coming towards the tail end of Eddie Murphy’s unbelievable hitting streak during the 80s (not ONE bad movie), this sweet, hilarious, but still lovably raunchy fairy tale is pretty great, and a nice reprieve for John Landis before he went down in flames. It seems appropriate that Murphy would be the one […]
Command Performance Sometimes when Hollywood filmmaking is not to be considered up to snuff with certain genres, one can still look to the surprisingly loaded European film market to come up with something interesting and that also includes action films as well. It never hurts when you have someone like Dolph Lundgren involved, a guy […]
