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Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 March 2025

Bank Shot (1974)

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 "I'm learning how to swim, and I'm coming after you!" This is... well, it may not be the greatest comedy ever made, but i...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

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 "Christianity isa ratiional system of belief, Peter." Once again we have one of the BBC's once annual Christmas ghost stories...
Saturday, 11 September 2021

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

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 “Trial by twelve good men and true... is a sound system I have read, probably, more of Agatha Christie's ouevre than not, although all ...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974)

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“Who are you?” “Commander first conquest of Earth, from the third planet of the black hole, outer space.” This is most certainly one o...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

Captain Kronos- Vampire Hunter (1974)

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"What he doesn't know about vampirism wouldn't fill a flea's codpiece." This is a film that, whatever its virtues,...
Saturday, 4 November 2017

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

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”Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer..."  I've always thought, before seeing both films again lately, that whilst ...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

Chinatown (1974)

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"Middle of a drought and the water commissioner drowns..." SPOILERS Best film about utilities and nonces ever. Ironic, seein...
Saturday, 17 June 2017

Young Frankenstein (1974)

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"He would have an enormous Schwanstucker!" Ok, so Gene Wilder excels, in the best performance I've ever seen by him, as Vict...
Tuesday, 13 December 2016

The Odessa File (1974)

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"You are not even worth a bullet..." Frederick Forsyth is one of those guilty pleasures; hardly a literary writer, prose that ma...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

Foxy Brown (1974)

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"You pink-ass corrupt honky judge, take your little wet noodle outta here and if you see a man anywhere send him in because I do need...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

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"Why is everything so hard for me? Why can't I play the piano like I can breathe?" I've been fascinated by the story...
Monday, 7 March 2016

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

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"I admit it's a little kinky..." It says a lot for the recent high standards of Bond films that, while The Man with the ...
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Monday, 11 January 2016

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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"My family's always been in meat..." This is the template for a certain kind of slasher and, surprisingly, whereas the budget ...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

Black Christmas (1974)

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"That's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing their annual obscene phone call." Er, merry Christmas, folks. This film is s...