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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Orca (1977)

Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Captain Nolan: He loved his family… more than I loved mine.” Let’s stay in the 70’s a little while longer, shall we? I mean, there were a lot of great movies made in that decade too, wouldn’t you agree? The movie I’ve chosen this week is certainly one of them. Well… at least in my opinion…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: The Glove (1979)

Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Wanted: Dead, NOT Alive!” This week I’m taking a look at the second movie on the drive-in double feature DVD that I mentioned last time. The Glove was actually the main reason for buying it, because A: I’ve never seen it, and B: the awesome cover art! I remember seeing the VHS cover way back in…

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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Two-Minute Warning (1976)

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 Warning. It’s kind of made…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Duel (1971)

Tweet by Peter Nielsen David Mann is an ordinary businessman on his way to an ordinary appointment with a client on an ordinary day. Or rather… that’s what he thinks! On the road he comes across a slow-moving, beat-up tanker-truck which he overtakes, only to have it roar past him a couple of minutes later. It gets in front of…

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