Every 70s Movie
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Pets (1973)

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          Not too many T&A-driven grindhouse flicks stem from legit theater, but  Pets  has exactly that pedigree. However, it’s useful ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The Daredevil (1972)

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          Watching   The Daredevil , it’s tricky to parse whether the people involved with the project thought they were making a real movie...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Hollywood 90028 (1973)

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          Some grungy movies are such prime fodder for cultural analysis that their actual cinematic merits (or lack thereof) are inconseque...
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Monday, November 20, 2023

The Hoax (1972)

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           Featuring a plot so thin it could barely power a sitcom episode, jokes so anemic they mostly elicit indifference, and a musical s...
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Monday, November 13, 2023

A Great Ride (1979)

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           Amazingly, ten years after the release of   Easy Rider , indirect knockoffs of that seminal film were still getting made.   A Gre...
Monday, October 30, 2023

The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)

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          Even though  The Horror at 37,000 Feet  is a terrible made-for-TV supernatural thriller distinguished by a dumb storyline, a motle...
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

7 Million Views!

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Hey there, groovy people! I hope regular visitors to this blog have not tired of occasional posts celebrating readership milestones, but I’m...
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Friday, September 15, 2023

Stunt Rock (1978)

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           Delivering in a big way on both elements of its title,   Stunt Rock   is an Australian oddity depicting the adventures of an Auss...
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

The Loners (1972)

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           If it’s possible for a movie to be completely forgettable   and  deeply weird, then   The Loner s   is such a movie. On the surfa...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

It Ain’t Easy (1972)

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          Of minor interest because it contains the first real onscreen performance by Lance Henriksen, who subsequently became a cult-favor...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Hail (1972)

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           Toward the end of its scant running time,   Hail   resolves into a serviceable satire of Nixon-era political paranoia. Getting th...
Friday, June 30, 2023

The Little Ark (1972)

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All the elements were in place for  The Little Ark  to become at least a passable bit of children’s entertainment (and in fact online commen...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Half a House (1975)

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          Of minor interest to Oscar completists because it scored an out-of-nowhere nomination for its original song “A Life That Never Was...
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Chinese Caper (1975)

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Although its storytelling is more coherent than the usual under-budgeted sludge made overseas by Americans of questionable ability,   Chines...
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Monday, June 19, 2023

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975) & Find the Lady (1976)

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           Proving that ’70s Canadian producers were just as capable as anyone else of jamming multinational casts into mindless schlock,   ...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

Happy as the Grass Was Green (1973)

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           Long on humanistic sociocultural messaging and short on cinematic polish,   Happy as the Grass Was Green —subsequently retitled  ...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

6.5 Million Views!

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          Hey there, groovy people! Even though daily posting on this blog has been in the rear-view mirror for some time, it ’ s wonderful ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Why (1973)

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           Toward the end of his erratic three-decade film/TV career, Russian-born helmer Victor Stoloff got heavy into stories about group ...
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Guardian of the Wilderness (1976)

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          Again demonstrating their propensity for transforming facts into ridiculous fiction, the folks at Sunn Classic Pictures used the r...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Solomon King (1974)

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Imagine if Rudy Ray Moore possessed the charisma of a DMV clerk and didn’t tell jokes—then you’ve got an idea of what to expect from   Solom...
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Monday, January 30, 2023

The Burglars (1971)

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           Enjoyably vapid French/Italian heist thriller   The Burglars   features a typically random assortment of international actors, th...
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

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           An attempt at translating a classic fairy tale into a (somewhat) modern horror picture, the US/UK coproduction   Whoever Slew Aun...
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