[10] Peter Bogdanovich adapts Larry McMurtry’s nostalgic coming-of-age tale, creating a film so believably rooted in a lonely time and place (the early ’50s Texas dust bowl), that you have a hard time shaking it when it’s over. The film chronicles the sexual indiscretions of its ensemble of characters, which include a high school infatuation between Duane (Jeff Bridges) and Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), as well …
[9] Several years ago, Dr. Anton Phibes raced to the hospital after learning his wife had died on the operating table. His car crashed off a cliff and he was burned alive. Or was he? After a series of elaborate murders rob London of its top doctors, Scotland Yard is on the case, barely able to keep ahead of the eccentric doctor as he exacts …
[9] Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon play one of cinema’s most unusual but endearing couples in Harold and Maude, a delightfully twisted romantic comedy from Hal Ashby. Harold is a rich, sheltered boy obsessed with death, and Maude is a carefree spirit with an overwhelming zest for life. Once they hook up, wacky adventures and life lessons follow. Colin Higgins’ screenplay never approaches sentiment or …
[9] The Beguiled is a period suspense drama that spirals into claustrophobic horror. Clint Eastwood plays against type as a dying Union soldier rescued by a little girl who brings him to her finishing school in the Confederate south. The Beguiled has all the makings of a sweet drama or light comedy as several of the young women become infatuated with Clint during his convalescence. …
[9] Clint Eastwood stars as his most iconic character, ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan, a gruff, no-bullshit San Francisco police investigator on the trail of a psychotic sniper who calls himself ‘The Scorpio Killer’. There have been many cat and mouse chase movies over the decades, especially in the paradigm of cop vs criminal, but Dirty Harry left a mark so indelible on the sub-genre, that it …
[9] A teenaged girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Luc Roeg) are stranded in the Australian Outback after their father begins shooting at them, catches the car on fire, and blows his brains out. They manage to survive for a few days, but ultimately come to rely on a young aborigine (David Gulpilil) who crosses their path. The boy is on ‘walkabout,’ a rite of …
[9] Gary Grimes stars as Hermie, a sensitive teenager spending his summer on Nantucket Island, idling away the hours reading comic books, watching movies, and wandering the beaches with his friends. But when he meets a kind, twenty-something newlywed named Dorothy (Jennifer O’Neill) who’s waiting for her husband to return from the battlefront, he becomes infatuated with her. While his friend Oscy (Jerry Houser) obsesses …
[8] A fifteen-year-old boy (John Moulder-Brown) begins working at a British bathhouse where a young woman (Jane Asher) goads his sexual awakening. The boy begins obsessing over the woman and her fiancee. He stalks them at night and tries to break them up. Once the boy and woman consumate their unhealthy relationship, things take an even darker turn. I found Deep End to be acompelling coming-of-age story …
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