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Tweet by Dave Umbricht There is a void in the world since Roger Ebert’s passing last month. One of the great film fans and the world’s most famous critic is gone. Roger Ebert amazingly transcended media. He started in newspaper, evolved to television, and embraced the internet. It was that last phase when he touched . . . → Read More: Join the Great Movies Film Club! Share
Tweet Mr. Ray Harryhausen, legend. by Peter Nielsen I seem to remember that the first glimpse I got into the world of Ray Harryhausen was a short scene from The Beast From 20.000 Fathoms (1953). It was the scene where the rhedosaurus grabs and eats the policeman… I was just a little kid and . . . → Read More: Thanks for the magic, Mr. Harryhausen Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen [Editor's Note: Special thanks and congratulations to Peter for contributing his 100th movie review to Forgotten Flix!] ”They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland, which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here… and sea fog… and eerie stories… That’s not because there . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: The Uninvited (1944) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen If I mention the name Alistair MacLean, you all know who I mean, right? He’s the author of 28-29 novels in the action-thriller genre. I’ll throw a couple of titles at you to jolt your memory… Breakhart Pass, The Way to Dusty Death, Caravan to Vaccares, Force 10 from Navarone, Where Eagles . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: Fear Is The Key (1972) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen “Tanner! This is Denton! This whole town is infested with killer cockroaches! I repeat… KILLER COCKROACHES!!” This movie starts with a bang! Literally! Only minutes after Damnation Alley opens, the world as we know it has ended. Two Air Force officers, Tanner and Denton, have just started their shifts at the . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: Damnation Alley (1977) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”The first time seems like the worst time, but it’s the one time you’ll never forget!” Ladies and gentlemen, we haven’t done a romantic comedy in a while, have we? So I thought it was about time! Mischief isn’t your typical 80’s teen rom-com though, since it isn’t set in . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: Mischief (1985) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Do you remember back when I did a review about the movie Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, where Robert Ginty had a small part as a helicopter pilot? I wrote that I was eventually going to “talk” about The Exterminator. Well, it took me a while, but here we . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: The Exterminator (1980) Share
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:08 — 58.3MB) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:08 — 58.3MB) Tweet Editor’s Note: Join your favorite comedy podcast chumps, Jason and Joel, as they go totally “off script” and take you into the minds of two of the most scatterbrained movie/TV nerds you’ll ever meet with all the shenanigans and . . . → Read More: Off Script with Jason and Joel: Episode 001 – The One About The Lone Ranger, The Conjuring, and Fire Marshall Bill Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Little girls, this seems to say, never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger, friend. No-one knows how it will end. As you’re pretty, so be wise! Wolves may lurk in every guise. Now, as then, ‘tis simple truth… sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth.” This particular passage is the . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: The Company of Wolves (1984) Share
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson Nightbreed was Barker’s second film as a writer and director. His first was Hellraiser (1987). Based on Barker’s novella, Cabal, Nightbreed tells the story of Boone, a young man who dreams of a hellish underworld and finds himself the prime suspect in a string of serial murders. After his psychiatrist . . . → Read More: Do You Remember… Nightbreed (1990) ShareTweet By Peter Nielsen One of the taglines for this movie was: “18 Feet of Towering Fury”, but let’s be real here folks, it’s not 18 feet. It’s not even 15 feet like they say in the movie. The bear used in Grizzly was actually 11 feet tall and was, at the time, the largest . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: Grizzly (1976) Share
Tweet Do NOT make fun of my mall bangs bitches! by Joel G. Robertson It’s interesting how many stars forget their roots. Where they came from. How they got their start. I’m not talking about their familial or ancestral lines, or the crime-ridden burg they called home as a child. No, I’m talking about . . . → Read More: Is that a Leprechaun in your pocket…? Share
Tweet By: Dayton Ward The 1980s seems to be one of those “Love it or Hate it” decades. The clothes, the hairstyles, the music, the TV shows, and even the movies all have a very distinctive vibe that just screams “EIGHTIES!!,” right? I mean…neon and pastels, acid-washed jeans, leg warmers, mullets, trimmed beard stubble, Culture . . . → Read More: Three Decades Ago, In a Movie Theater Down the Street: Ten Favorite Science Fiction Films of the 1980s Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man. I’m strong to the finnich, ‘cause I eats me spinach. I’m Popeye the Sailor Man.” Yes, yes, I know I stated in last week’s review (Django) that I wasn’t going to cover musicals here on Forgotten Flix. Well, since Popeye is . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Rewind: Popeye (1980) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen I guess by now you’ve figured out that I love all types and genres of movies. Yes… even musicals, but you won’t be seeing any reviews of them here on Forgotten Flix, though. Another genre I haven’t touched upon much yet is the Western, or more precise… the so called . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Corner: Django (1966) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey) is a quiet man. He’s a stockbroker who lives a nice suburban life and is well-liked by his neighbors. He’s the kind of man who wouldn’t hurt a fly. He doesn’t even have a criminal record. A model citizen, so to speak. Yeah, well… up until two . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Hidden (1987) Share
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:37 — 11.0MB) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:37 — 11.0MB) Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, you’re getting a “mini-sode” (or is it “micro-cast”?). Jason and Joel will tell you all about their NEW show (that’s right, a new one!). They’ll also tell . . . → Read More: 090 – TFFP: Jason and Joel Are Going Off Script! (Update episode) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen From 1981 to 1992 we had a movie magazine called ”Scandinavian Film & Video” here in Sweden. Unfortunately it deteriorated into a crappy magazine during the last 2-3 years, but in the mid 80’s it was our bible when it came to movies! I’ve talked before about the movie censorship we . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Fury (1978) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen With less than a week until the kick-off in Super Bowl 2013, I thought it appropriate to look at a movie with a football setting. I first thought about The Longest Yard, but I have a hunch that’s less forgotten than the one I finally settled on, namely the star-studded drama/thriller Two-Minute . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Two-Minute Warning (1976) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen It’s time to return to another genre I love and grew up with… the martial arts genre. During the 80s, we devoured these types of movies, and the TV and radio shop I mentioned in my last review (The Soldier) had a shit-load of these for rent. Many of them were . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Fist of Legend (1994) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Codename: The Soldier – You don’t assign him. You unleash him!” It’s time to go back to the early 80’s again or more precisely to those lovely low-budget action-movies made in that era. I grew up renting and watching tons of this type of movies on VHS. We had a . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Soldier (1982) Share
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged below water, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming. The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed-of levels of pollution where day has become almost endless night.” We’re in London! It’s 2008! It’s . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Split Second (1992) Share
Tweet By Peter Nielsen ”You know Friscoe, when we used to flush the toilet up-stairs, we always wondered where it came to…” When a drug-bust goes horribly wrong, the department blames Sgt. Sharky who’s promptly transferred from Narcotics to Vice. I love the way they’ve filmed his “descent”… It’s one continuous shot from his nice . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Sharky’s Machine (1981) Share
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:17 — 42.0MB) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:17 — 42.0MB) Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re skipping school John Hughes style as we revisit Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)! IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LISTENERS: This is the final episode of Forgotten Flix for . . . → Read More: 089 – TFFP: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Share
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by Peter Nielsen Well, my friends, since we’re in the midst of the Christmas holidays I thought it appropriate to spend this jolly time (hopefully) looking at the classic Burt Lancaster – movie The Crimson Pirate. It’s an old-fashioned and colorful swashbuckling adventure and is one I used to watch with my dad . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Crimson Pirate (1952) Share |
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