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12 Best Movies Coming to Peacock in July 2025 (With 80% or Higher Rotten Tomatoes Score)
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This July, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of the post-apocalyptic action comedy series Twisted Metal to the streaming release of Drop. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock next month and have an 80% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the twelve best films that are coming to Peacock in July 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Goodfellas (July 1) Rt Score: 91% Credit – Warner Bros.

Goodfellas is a biographical gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Pileggi. Based on Pileggi’s 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy, the 1990 film chronicles the rise and fall of mafioso Henry Hill over the course of 25 years. Goodfellas stars Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, and Paul Sorvino.
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  • 7/2/2025
  • by Kulwant Singh
  • Cinema Blind
Sylvester Stallone's 1982 Action Classic 'Rambo First Blood' Finds New Streaming Home
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In the 1970s, Sylvester Stallone became synonymous with the Rocky movies. Both the first film in 1976 and its sequel in 1978 cemented the underdog boxer as an iconic character, endearing the actor to millions around the globe. Rocky III in 1982 further proved his drawing power, as the film grossed $270 million at the box office against a budget of $17 million. However, that same year, Stallone started a new cinematic legacy that has stood the test of time, and it's finally found a new streaming home.

Per Paramount+, First Blood hits the streaming service today, Jan. 1, giving fans a chance to relive the origins of John Rambo, the disenfranchised Vietnam War vet who returns home only to be further traumatized by a small-town sheriff. Based on the excellent 1972 novel by author David Morrell, First Blood helped kick off Stallone's career as a bona fide action star, and was a smash hit with audiences.
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  • 1/1/2025
  • by James Melzer
  • MovieWeb
Related Images | “Witches”
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Related Images invites readers behind the scenes and into the sketchbooks of working filmmakers to learn more about their creative processes.Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches is now showing exclusively on Mubi.Witches.Title cards are an underappreciated art and a powerful tool for every director. They can punctuate a moment, make it more comic, shocking, or beautiful. They can hold your hand and lead you sweetly down the garden path of the story you’re about to experience, or they can undermine your expectations and throw you for a loop. Even their placement in the runtime can have a huge impact. In the black-metal revenge thriller Mandy (2018) Panos Cosmatos waits 75 minutes before abruptly kicking his title card onto the screen. Conversely Luca Guadagnino places the card for Call Me by Your Name (2017) at the end of the film to enhance Elio’s heartbreaking stare into the fire, intensifying his crushing...
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  • 11/12/2024
  • MUBI
Road Trip to Hell: ‘Race With the Devil’ Was the Original Rv Horror Film
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There’s nothing quite like Rv horror. Inspired by an expanding national highway system and the proliferation of motor parks in the 1960s, this distinctive subgenre offers a unique blend of classic genre fare. Part home invasion, part road trip tale, part hicksploitation with a smidge of folk horror, the recreational vehicle becomes a home away from home and offers the illusion of safety while traversing strange locales. Jack Starrett’s Race with the Devil is arguably the first great entry in the Rv horror tradition, a criminally underseen film following two suburban couples on a road trip to hell.

Friends and business partners Frank (Warren Oates) and Roger (Peter Fonda) have just set out on an adventurous road trip from San Antonio, Texas to a ski vacation in Aspen, Colorado. Traveling in style, Frank shows off a brand new Rv with all the comforts of home: color television, microwave oven,...
See full article at bloody-disgusting.com
  • 11/11/2024
  • by Jenn Adams
  • bloody-disgusting.com
Sylvester Stallones 86% Rotten Tomatoes Action Thriller Is a Smash Hit on This Free Streaming Service
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The first entry in what many would argue is one of the most iconic action franchises ever has become a smash hit on an underrated streaming service. First Blood, the 1982 action film starring Sylvester Stallone which kicked off the Rambo franchise, is the #9 most popular movie on Pluto TV. While you may be unfamiliar with Pluto TV, it is a free streaming service that incorporates ads, so you don't even have to sign up for it. That's right, you could be watching the first Rambo movie within seconds without even having to give out your email, phone number, or credit card information. First Blood stars Stallone as the titular character, alongside Brian Denny, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney, and Jack Starrett, and the film currently sits at equal scores of 86% from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, strong numbers for an action film.
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  • 9/11/2024
  • by Adam Blevins
  • Collider.com
Rambo Was Supposed to Be Stallone's 'Career Killer'
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Quick Links Stallone Took Advantage of an Empty Niche First Blood Was the Crossroads of Stallone's Professional Life Stallone Invents the Modern International Blockbuster How Stallone Learned to Prolong His Fifteen Minutes of Fame

It's tempting to designate Sylvester Stallone's breakout performance in Rocky as his most important performance and crowing achievement. But, looking at the overall arc of his resume and his acting roles, it's not true. 1982 First Blood (the opening chapter in the Rambo series) has shaped not only his trajectory as the pioneer of modern action flick but all of his future blockbusters, with subsequent productions latching onto the movie's visual and marketing choices, for better or worse. It's the role of mullet-loving Rambo that came to define him as an actor and pop culture institution, not the punch-drunk Philadelphian, Rocky Balboa. So why did he want every copy of the movie burned?

Stallone Took Advantage...
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  • 9/4/2024
  • by Nathan Williams
  • MovieWeb
Film Forum Presents ‘Blaxploitation, Baby!’ Festival Celebrating ’70s Black Cinema
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It’s the summer of “Blaxploitation, Baby!,” the latest festival hosted by Film Forum.

The indie theater announced the upcoming festival which will take place August 16 through August 22. The program celebrates the early ‘70s genre of Black cinema, and features films wth iconic movie stars Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Ron O’Neal, Tamara Dobson, Jim Brown, Vonetta McGee, Fred Williamson, Isaac Hayes, and more.

“Blaxploitation, Baby!” is dedicated to author and pioneering film historian Donald Bogle, who collaborated on Film Forum’s first Blaxploitation festival in 1995. Bogle credited Melvin Van Peebles’ filmography for helping to establish the genre. “Blaxploitation, Baby!” additionally ranges from works from directors such as Ossie Davis, Gordon Parks, and Gordon Parks Jr.

As well as the screenings, the festival will include the sales of critic and historian Odie Henderson’s “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation” and Donald Bogle’s acclaimed TCM book “Hollywood Black” at concessions.
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  • 7/12/2024
  • by Samantha Bergeson
  • Indiewire
How Old Rambo Is In Every Movie
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Rambo's age in each film closely aligns with Stallone's, reflecting the actor's career evolution and the character's growth onscreen. The franchise has seen Rambo transform from a haunted young man to a redemptive older figure, fighting for respect and battling villainous armies. Sly Stallone has masterfully portrayed John Rambo across nearly four decades, showcasing the character's depth and resilience despite his aging.

The question of "how old was Sylvester Stallone in Rambo" is interesting since the franchise consists of five films from 1982 through 2019, giving the action hero a surprisingly long run. Rambo was created by author David Morrell in his 1972 novel First Blood, which was later adapted into the 1982 film of the same name. The character is a former Special Forces Operator (Green Beret) who served in the Vietnam War while struggling to escape his violent way of life. The movies have shown him grow from a haunted young...
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  • 6/26/2024
  • by Paul Shirey, Colin McCormick
  • ScreenRant
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Film Review: They call her… Cleopatra Wong (1978) by Bobby A. Suarez
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by Yann Benarrous

Is it really worthwhile for me to comment further? Just imagine throwing into a defective Thermomix in no particular order Bruce Lee's early classics, (not-the-best) Blaxploitation undercover stories, few OSS177 and other cheap cold war spy fictions with just a drop of Nunsploitation to spice it up. Tempting, isn't it? No surprise to see the B-movies undisputed ruler Quentin Tarantino resurrecting this underground piece for an interview to the Straight Times while promoting “Kill Bill”.

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Obviously, the name Cleopatra Wong is directly inspired form Jack Starrett's “Cleopatra Jones” (1973), just like the introductive “They call her… “ is a common pattern of the Exploitation scene, the most famous probably being the Spaghetti Western “They Call Me Trinity” (1970). Moreover seeing the coming-from-nowhere-soon-returning-to-nowhere leading actress Doris Young getting renamed Marrie Lee is certainly making her a sibling of King Bruce,...
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  • 11/11/2023
  • by Guest Writer
  • AsianMoviePulse
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R.I.P.: Lara Parker of Dark Shadows and Race with the Devil has passed away
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This month has been full of sad reports of celebrity passings… and unfortunately, today is no different. It has been brought to our attention that Lara Parker, best known for starring in the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and the 1975 horror classic Race with the Devil, has passed away at the age of 84. Her daughter confirmed to Variety that she died in her sleep at her home in the Topanga Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles on October 12th.

If you’re not familiar with Parker’s work on Dark Shadows, Variety has the information: “From 1967 to 1971, the Memphis native starred in Dark Shadows as the central antagonist Angelique Bouchard. Set in the fictional setting of Collinsport, Maine, the series follows the town’s founding family, the Collins family. In the show, Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) spurns the besotted Angelique after a brief dalliance with her, unaware that she is a witch.
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  • 10/17/2023
  • by Cody Hamman
  • JoBlo.com
Pulp Fiction Changed How Studios Saw Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk Till Dawn
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Though "Reservoir Dogs" took the Sundance Film Festival by storm in January 1992, the Quentin Tarantino brand didn't explode until 1993. The internet was available in college dorm rooms during the early '90s, but the online world belonged to nerds who got lost in multi-user dungeons (MUDs) or conversed collegially on Usenet newsgroups like rec.arts.movies about all things cinematic.

Tarantino's most vocal adherents might've been on Usenet, but his rise was largely analog, and, given the filmmaker's old-school eschewal of digital technology (at least as far as his own work is concerned), I doubt he would've had it any other way. All I know is that in the fall of 1992 when I began my freshman year at Ohio University, no one had heard of Tarantino. And in the fall of 1993, there were oversized "Reservoir Dogs" posters adorning bedroom walls all over campus.

Warner Bros. stood to benefit from...
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  • 2/14/2023
  • by Jeremy Smith
  • Slash Film
Why Rambo Only Kills One Character In First Blood
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John Rambo only kills one person in First Blood, which is a major change from his portrayal in David Morrell's novel of the same name. First Blood debuted in theaters in 1982, with Sylvester Stallone portraying drifter and Vietnam veteran John Rambo. When Rambo wanders into a small town, he is arrested for vagrancy by the vicious Sheriff Teasle (Brian Dennehy), which triggers Rambo's Ptsd and leads him to unleash a one-man war against the local police force.

Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies are a big franchise, with Rambo himself becoming one of Stallone's signature characters. While the Rambo movies are regarded as some of Stallone's most violent films, Rambo himself is significantly toned down in First Blood, at least kill count-wise. Compared to Morrell's 1972 novel, First Blood made one huge change to Rambo as a character.

Related: Rambo Has 1 Unwanted Stallone Record That Rocky Never Could

Rambo Is A Killing...
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  • 1/8/2023
  • by Brad Curran
  • ScreenRant
Ulrike Ottinger
The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Includes Terence Davies, Ulrike Ottinger, Round Midnight & More
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Sometimes it’s like they read your mind—or just notice upcoming releases as you do. Whatever the case, I’m thrilled that the release of Terence Davies’ Benediction played (I assume!) some part in a full retro on the Criterion Channel this June, sad as I know that package will make me and anybody else who comes within ten feet of it. It’s among a handful of career retrospectives: they’ve also set a 12-film Judy Garland series populated by Berkeley and Minnelli, ten from Ulrike Ottinger, and four by Billy Wilder. But maybe their most adventurous idea in some time is a huge microbudget collection ranging from Ulmer’s Detour to Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard, fellow success stories—Nolan, Linklater, Jarmusch, Jia Zhangke—spread about.

Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...
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  • 5/19/2022
  • by Nick Newman
  • The Film Stage
‘Cleopatra Jones’: ‘Lovecraft Country’ Scribe Ihuoma Ofordire To Pen Reboot Of 1973 Pic For Macro & Warner Bros
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A contemporary re-imaging of the 1973 action feature Cleopatra Jones is in the works at Warner Bros and Charles D. King’s Macro, with Lovecraft Country and Snowfall writer Ihuoma Ofordire penning the script.

The original movie directed by Jack Starrett starred Tamara Dobson as an undercover government agent who uses her day job of supermodel to go undercover, travel to exotic places and prove herself invaluable to the local cops in the war on drugs. The first movie played at a time when the Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement and, second-wave feminism were widespread.

Ofordire, who also is an actress, co-wrote Episode 8 of Lovecraft Country, “Jig-a-Bobo,” which creator Misha Green directed. Ofordire currently is developing projects with a number producers including 20th Century Studios. She is a WGA and Nebula award nominee who is repped by CAA, Artists First and Del, Shaw, Moonves.

Producers of Cleopatra Jones are Macro...
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  • 4/29/2021
  • by Anthony D'Alessandro
  • Deadline Film + TV
‘Grizzly II: Revenge’ Review: An Infamous Abandoned Film Gets Finished … Off
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After the phenomenal success of “Jaws” in 1975, there was a cash-in surge for further “nature strikes back” creature features, as mankind was successively imperiled by dogs, cats, whales, buffalo, piranha and so on. One of the most blatant of these knockoffs was William Girdler’s 1976 “Grizzly,” an undistinguished tale of hairy menace running amok in a national park. It was, nonetheless, a hit — in fact the biggest indie success story of its year, purportedly grossing about fifty times its modest $750,000 budget. As quickly as it had been rushed out to ride “Jaws’” coattails, however, a sequel was slow in coming.

Well, there’s ordinary “slow,” and then there’s the Rip Van Winkle-grade variety. After decades spent as a famously abandoned project, “Grizzly II” finally hits theaters and VOD in 2021. For reasons that remain murky, the Hungary-shot horror thriller originally titled “Grizzly II: The Concert” went unfinished after principal photography...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 1/9/2021
  • by Dennis Harvey
  • Variety Film + TV
Cleopatra Jones
Cleopatra Jones

Blu ray

Warner Archive

1973 / 2:35:1 / 89 Min. / Street Date – March 19, 2019

Starring Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey

Written by Max Julien, Sheldon Keller

Cinematography by David M. Walsh

Directed by Jack Starrett

A good-natured if rickety assemblage of action movie cliches, Cleopatra Jones is dominated by two bigger than life actresses, Tamara Dobson and Shelley Winters. The movie’s trailer promoted Dobson as the “soul sister’s answer” to James Bond but you can count Bruce Lee, Emma Peel, Shaft and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. among Cleo’s many relevant role models.

Winters plays “Mommy”, a foulmouthed mob boss who depends on the thriving Poppy fields of Turkey for her cash flow and Dobson is Cleopatra, an Amazonian fashion plate whose special agent skills range from karate to high speed car chases – her plan to wipe out Mommy’s syndicate leads to a high octane race through ‘70’s era L.
See full article at Trailers from Hell
  • 3/19/2019
  • by Charlie Largent
  • Trailers from Hell
The Losers
Inspired by an overture from Hell’s Angels’ Sonny Barger to President Johnson offering up his boys as “gorilla fighters”, director Jack Starrett and screenwriter Alan Caillou serve up quite the grindhouse mish-mash in this 1970 rarity. A brave biker gang plows into Vietnam on a rescue mission – straddling specially rigged motorcycles with armor and special weaponry, the wanna-be Rambos spend the next 95 minutes mowing down commies and popping wheelies. Later retitled as Nam’s Angels.

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  • 6/11/2018
  • by Charlie Largent
  • Trailers from Hell
Blazing Saddles: An Old Western About Living in America Today
David Crow Feb 7, 2019

Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles is as timely today as it was in 1974 because it is about America’s past, present, and future.

In September 2017, a filmmaker and statesman for Hollywood days gone by named Mel Brooks gave a grim prognosis for our culture: We’d never make Blazing Saddles today. While he thinks some of his masterpieces of yore like Young Frankenstein could still exist in a modern context, Blazing Saddles would simply ruffle too many feathers.

“Never Blazing Saddles,” Brooks told BBC Radio 4, “because we have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy.” This is of course an oversimplification of the changing attitudes in our society, yet it rings with an unshakable truth. “They,” being Hollywood studios and the plethora of talent who frequent said distributors, would not touch Blazing Saddles in 2019. Which is a doggone shame since Blazing Saddles is just...
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  • 2/4/2018
  • Den of Geek
The Greatest Heist Comedies of All-Time
There’s nothing revelatory or new about adding a dose of the comedic to a crime picture, but the heist comedy is just a small corner of a vast and beloved cinematic landscape, as of recently, dominated by one filmmaker: Steven Soderbergh.

Responsible for four acclaimed entries in the genre, including Out of Sight and the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, Soderbergh has thankfully ended his so-called retirement and returned to film and the world of heist comedies with his newest, Logan Lucky, now playing in theaters. The film’s plot follows Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) a family man who plans to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina, only to find he and his crew (Adam Driver, Daniel Craig and Riley Keough) must do the job while a Nascar race is underway.

To celebrate Soderbergh’s return with Logan Lucky, we’ve decided to look back at the greatest heist comedies of all-time.
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  • 8/23/2017
  • by Tony Hinds
  • The Film Stage
"Hells Angels On Wheels' 50th Anniversary Screening, L.A. August 3
Hells Angels On Wheels La Screening with Richard Rush and Sabrina Scharf in Person

By Todd Garbarini

Richard Rush’s 1967 film Hells Angels on Wheels celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special screening at the Noho 7 Theatre in Los Angeles. Starring Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor and Jack Starrett, the film runs 95 minutes and is one of several films that Mr. Rush directed Mr. Nicholson in, the others being Too Soon to Love (1960) and Psycho-Out (1968). This is a rare opportunity to see this film on the big screen.

Please Note: Director Richard Rush and actress Sabrina Scharf are scheduled to appear in person for a Q & A following the screening.

From the press release:

Hells Angels On Wheels (1967)

Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 7:30 Pm

A bunch of hairy guys on Harleys are causing trouble again in this, one of the best-remembered examples of the biker flicks of the 1960's.
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  • 7/31/2017
  • by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
  • Cinemaretro.com
Drive-In Dust Offs: Race With The Devil
If you’re going to race with the Devil, you’ve got to be fast as hell!

Pull on up to the ’70s, when Satanic Panic fueled the nightmares of a horror-fed generation. Started by Rosemary’s Baby (1968), exploding with The Exorcist (1973), and culminating with The Omen (1976), hoofin’ with the Horned One was a popular dance at the box office. Race with the Devil (1975) is a much less grandiose ride than its esteemed colleagues, but remains a fun and interesting mesh of hot rods and Hell.

Released in June, Rwtd came off the assembly line for $1.7 million Us and returned $12 million, a sizable success for a modest B-flick. Car chase movies always turned a tidy profit on the circuit, exploitation filled with wheels and women perfectly suited for drive-ins across North America. By the time Rwtd was released, satanic horror had saturated the market. But by crossbreeding it with a...
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  • 10/3/2015
  • by Scott Drebit
  • DailyDead
Better than Fast and Furious: ‘Race with the Devil’ a spare, solid, sharply paced horror/road flick
Race with the Devil

Directed by Jack Starrett

Written by Lee Frost and Wes Bishop

1975, USA

A follow up to the 20th Century Fox surprise success of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (released a year earlier), this Peter Fonda-Warren Oates cult classic is a strange hybrid of genres. One might assume the film offers a car chase with Satan himself. This isn’ t that movie; that would instead be the Nicolas Cage 2011 vehicle, Drive Angry. The result here rests somewhere between Rosemary’s Baby and Vanishing Point, featuring requisite road chases and a Satanic cult. With the mash-up of what was then, two popular fads, it is no surprise Race with the Devil was a box office hit in 1975. Action filmmaker Jack Starrett (Nowhere to Hide, The Gravy Train, Cleopatra Jones) hits his career high directing this slickly executed genre-hopping cult favourite. Race with the Devil is an entertaining,...
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  • 5/26/2013
  • by Ricky
  • SoundOnSight
Coolest of Crime Cinema: Essential Blaxploitation
After all the debates, controversies, and stereotype accusations have cleared, looking back on Blaxploitation cinema today it’s easy to see healthy portions of the crime and action genres. Using these genres and the struggles of the black community, these films were created for those that wanted to see African American characters on the big screen not taking shit from the man, “getting over”, and–above all else—being the heroes in movies. In the documentary Baad Asssss Cinema, Samuel L. Jackson gives his take on the heroes of Blaxploitation: “We were tired of seeing the righteous black man. And all of a sudden we had guys who were…us. Or guys who did the things we wanted those guys to do.”

The unsung supporting players in these films that backed Fred Williamson and Pam Grier and many other stars were people acting and making a living off of it.
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  • 12/4/2012
  • by Gregory Day
  • SoundOnSight
Ten Underrated Horror Movies for Halloween 2012
For some strange reason the horror genre has more underrated and undervalued films than pretty much any other genre. The reason for this seems to be that despite films like The Exorcist, The Thing and An American Werewolf in London being considered classics, the genre still isn’t taken seriously. Roughly 75% of the straight to DVD market consists of horror films and with so much produced with critics ready and waiting to give it a kick, it’s no surprise that a great many titles go by without any attention or love.

So as it’s Halloween here are ten horror movies that didn’t get the attention they deserved and are well worth seeking out this Halloween if you aren’t really in the mood for another Paranormal Activity film.

10. Daybreakers (2009)

Despite having one of the greatest trailers in recent memory, The Spierig Brothers vampire film Daybreakers was a...
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  • 10/31/2012
  • by Chris Holt
  • HeyUGuys.co.uk
"There's That Guy" - The Person You Say Man, He's In Everything!
..."man, he's in everything." Do you ever catch yourself saying that when you see a familiar face on the screen? You watch a film and see a character played by someone who is a "regular" in the movies. These character actors catch our attention, they really stand out. Their voice, look, screen presence. My article today consists of 5 "guys" who fit that category. 1. Jack Starrett Who the hell is Jack Starrett? Well, his performance was so…...
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  • 6/29/2012
  • Horrorbid
The Walking Tall Trilogy Review
The Walking Tall Trilogy (DVD) Directed by: Phil Karlson / Earl Bellamy / Jack Starrett Starring: Joe Don Baker / Bo Svenson Advertised as the “original revenge film,” Walking Tall is a '70s classic that I’m not sure would appeal to today’s audience even though there seems to be a resurgence in the popularity of heroes in revenge films with films like Taken. The movie was popular enough to spawn two sequels in the '70s, a television movie, a television series (albeit short-lived) and eventually a remake with its own two direct-to-dvd sequels. This review covers the '70s theatrical films that have been released as a trilogy in a single package. When Walking Tall was originally released in 1973, I was only eleven years old, but for some reason, I have a strong memory of this film’s impact. The movie was R-rated, so neither I nor any of...
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  • 6/22/2012
  • by Reed
  • FilmJunk
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 1 of 5)
With the Academy Awards for the 2011 film year in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to take a look at one of the event’s most consistently fascinating categories: Best Supporting Actor. The most interesting story in the category this year isn’t who got nominated, it’s who didn’t. More specifically, Albert Brooks was completely robbed of a nomination for his performance as film producer turned lethal gangster Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.

As much as I’d like to say I was surprised by this, considering both the quality of performance and Brooks’ slew of nominations from other critical circles, in light of the Academy’s history of overlooking outstanding supporting performances, I simply can’t.

Following is a chronological look at a number of performances richly deserving of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination.

In some cases, the performances are in films...
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  • 5/23/2012
  • by Terek Puckett
  • SoundOnSight
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
DVD Playhouse—February 2012

By Allen Gardner

To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.

Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
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  • 2/26/2012
  • by The Hollywood Interview.com
  • The Hollywood Interview
Kill List – review
Suburban thriller meets The Wicker Man in Ben Wheatley's cleverly unsettling British horror movie

A year ago last month, Down Terrace, the first film for the cinema by the British director of TV series and commercials, Ben Wheatley, was given a limited distribution. Made on the thinnest of shoestrings for an alleged £6,000 (the same sum that in 1998 was said to be the notional budget of Christopher Nolan's Following), it was a highly entertaining black comedy largely set in the cosy suburban house of a Brighton gangster, his devoted wife and surly, grown-up son who has recently been acquitted of an unnamed crime.

A succession of low-life characters comes and goes, semi-improvised euphemistic small talk flows, and several people disappear to end up in graves on the South Downs. I described the film as "Brighton Rock reworked in the style of The Royle Family", and it made me eager to see his next film,...
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  • 9/3/2011
  • by Philip French
  • The Guardian - Film News
Joshua Reviews Shout! Factory’s Dirty Mary Crazy Larry / Race With The Devil Double Feature [DVD Review]
Over the past few years, the world of the big screen genre film has seen a massive up swing.

Thanks to films like Hobo With A Shotgun, the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse double feature, and with regards to this new “Action-Packed Double Feature” collection from Shout! Factory, something like Drive Angry 3D, the B-movie has become big time business for A-grade studios.

However, it’s also become something of a renaissance on the home video front as well, primarily thanks to Shout! Factory and their collection of Roger Corman DVD sets. While not graced with the title of a “Roger Corman Cult Classic” like Death Race 2000 or Rock & Roll High School, Shout! has released two of the most iconic car chase cult pictures that the sub-genre has to offer, in a rather brilliant 2 disc DVD set.

First up, you have the iconic Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. Overtly referenced...
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  • 4/13/2011
  • by Joshua Brunsting
  • CriterionCast
DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for April 12, 2011
Here is your list of DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for April 12, 2011. This week, we have a great high-octane double pack of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Race With The Devil and some other flicks that may tickle your fancy, so click beyond the break to see the full list.

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2033: Future Apocalypse

Format: DVD

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2033 Mexico City. In a corporation-controlled society where the population is controlled by a synthetic food called Pecti.
See full article at Destroy the Brain
  • 4/12/2011
  • by Andy Triefenbach
  • Destroy the Brain
Day of the Undead film showcase in Britain
British zombie fans can enjoy 12 hours of flesheating fun at the second annual Day of the Undead, taking place in Leicester on Saturday, November 1. Movies lined up include Jay Lee’s Zombie Strippers, starring Robert Englund and Jenna Jameson; Omar Ali Khan’s acclaimed Pakistani horror film Hell’S Ground; the UK premiere of New Zealand’s Last Of The Living, from filmmaker Logan McMillan (pictured; see the trailer below); and the original Night Of The Living Dead and Return Of The Living Dead.

There will also be zombie shorts, makeup artists on hand to turn audience members into ghouls and lots of giveaways and prizes.

Day of the Undead is the middle part of the annual three-day Far Out Festival of Fantastique Film. On Friday (which is, of course, Halloween), audiences can view the rarely screened British chiller Corruption, featuring Peter Cushing in an atypically nasty role, plus David Lynch’s uncategorizable Eraserhead,...
See full article at Fangoria
  • 10/22/2008
  • Fangoria
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