Robert Aldrich Smackdown: …All the Marbles (1981)
Robert Aldrich’s directorial swan song, the underrated wrestling comedy …All the Marbles / aka California Dolls (1981), is covered through the magic of dead home video format CED!
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CED: … All the Marbles / California Dolls (1981)
Robert Aldrich’s final film as director is a suitable career swan song, packed with the type of working class characters, tough circumstances, and raw language typical of his rough comedic work, and reverberating with memorable performances by a veteran and two newcomers…
Kennedy, Kemper, and The Killing of America (1981)
Review of The Killing of America (1981), a grim chronicle of violent America from director Sheldon Renan and co-writer Leonard Schrader, making its North American home video debut via Severin Films on Blu.
BR: Killing of America, The (1981)
A mainly Japanese production that purports to be a hard, no-holds barred chronicle of America’s evolution into a violent, ugly culture, the filmmakers’ thesis says that everything was stable until Lee Harvey Oswald and an accomplice blew apart John F. Kennedy’s head, footage the filmmakers play in slow, ghoulish detail…
Revisiting Bubber: Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966)
Revisiting Arthur Penn’s film version of Horton Foote’s The Chase (1966), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
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