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At the very least mixing animation with rotoscoping and live action gave the villains in this movie a pretty gothic vibe, which really worked with the fantasy concept. Lord of the Rings was the second in the animated movie trilogy for the adaptation of the Lord of the Rings books. Even though this movie isContinue reading “Lord of the Rings (1978)”

Watching Mickey from Rocky get in a fight with an elderly woman is an interesting experience for everybody involved… Goldie Hawn has probably her best movie about a librarian who picks up a hitchhiker getting her into a bunch of trouble when the hitchhiker asks to meet her later but also puts a macguffin intoContinue reading “Foul Play (1978)”

It’s interesting to realize that the big guy with metal teeth originally started out in a comedy with Gene Wilder. This was the next movie in the James Bond series. Bond has to get back a macguffin that can track their submarines. He attempts to get it back but there is a Russian agent whoContinue reading “Spy Who Loved Me (1977)”

Hobbit was an animated movie about a hobbit who helps some dwarves get their gold and home back from a dragon that took it from them. They go on a journey and encounter many different obstacles including trolls and singing orcs. When they reach the mountain home of the dwarves Bilbo infiltrates the place andContinue reading “Hobbit (1977)”

Mr. Twain prefers his atmosphere to be murky… Murder by Death is about five detectives who all go to a house in the country where they have been invited by a wealthy guy who wants to take them all down by giving them a mystery that has not been committed yet but will stump allContinue reading “Murder by Death (1976)”

Humphrey Bogart is in this movie about a guy who goes to a hotel on the beach and finds a couple of people who are waiting to do a deal with another gang and then take a boat to Cuba. They have the deal but the guy with their boat takes off and they haveContinue reading “Key Largo (1948)”

Peter Lorre, the mainstream person’s version of Martin Koslek. Bob Hope shows up in this movie about a cameraman who wants to be a detective but gets a lot more than he wanted when Dorothy Lamour gives him the assignment of finding her captured father who has been taken by some criminals who are tryingContinue reading “My Favorite Brunette (1947)”

Werewolf of London is about a scientist from London who travels to a remote location while looking for a rare flower so he can grow it in his greenhouse back at his home. He finds the flower he has been looking for but is bitten by a werewolf when he finds it. When he getsContinue reading “Werewolf of London (1935)”

Apparently, black face was still sometimes done in the 1970s, which was a pretty racially charged decade. I wonder what Redd Foxx thought of this scene? Silver Streak is about an ordinary guy on a train who gets caught up in a murder conspiracy when he sees a dead guy drop past the window ofContinue reading “Silver Streak (1976)”

This movie was about as explosive as the bathroom after eating a bunch of prunes. Rooster Cogburn was a western about a couple of people played by John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn who follow some bandits that have stolen a bunch of nitro when they ambush a bunch of cavalry people and steal it fromContinue reading “Rooster Coburn and the Lady (1975)”