Showing posts with label Don Stroud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Stroud. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 August 2021

Joe Kidd (1972)



 
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. 

Raucous and rather inconsistent  Western obviously tries to cash in on the success and style of the Italian Spaghetti Western genre, even utilizing their Clint Eastwood persona stereotype, all with mixed results, albeit entertaining enough along the way. 

Halliwell (no star): "Rough-and-tumble star Western with untenable moral attitudes."

Maltin**: "...ordinary Western; nice photography and a rousing scene where Eastwood drives a train through a barroom." 



Thursday, 13 June 2019

The Amityville Horror (1979)



Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Below par haunted house horror that delivers the standard shocks without any sense of coherence or logic; at least the movie has an honest tagline: "For God's sake, get out!"

Halliwell (no star): "Sub-Exorcist goings on, a shameless exaggeration of some of the alleged facts retailed in the best-selling book. A shocker for the uncritical."

Maltin*1/2: "...film is yawm-inducing rehash of old schticks; not even good for laughs, with Steiger hamming it up as local priest."


Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Sunday, 24 April 2016

Games (1967)


A young couple who are into kinky "mind games" get more than they bargained for when a mysterious woman comes into their lives.