Tweet by Peter Nielsen Mark Kaminsky is a former FBI-agent who now works as a sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. He was forced to retire after he got a little rough with a suspect in a kidnapping-case involving an 11-year old girl. In his defense, Mr. Kaminsky says that he did what he did because the perpetrator…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Remo Williams – The Adventure Begins (1985)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen This week’s movie-choice is based on a very successful series of books, “The Destroyer”-series, written by Warren Murphy and Richard Ben Sapir. There are well over a hundred of them published so far and I actually haven’t read any of them. Bits and pieces from some of them sure, but never one in its entirety. Maybe…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Vamp (1986)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen The two fraternity pledges, Keith and AJ, finds the whole initiation mumbo-jumbo they’re being put through, stupid and immature and instead strike up a deal with the frat-leader. They are to get strippers for a big party and that’ll be their ticket in. Piece of cake, right? No, not really, and after striking out on every…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Uncommon Valor (1983)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Vietnam, 1972. Soldiers are running through water-soaked fields desperately trying to escape the enemy-fire ripping them apart. Helicopters swoop in as saving angels, but they too get caught in the crossfire. Those few that make it onboard try in vain to reach their comrades, but as the enemy-fire grows too intense the helicopters have to abort.…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: High Road To China (1983)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen High Road To China was released in Sweden in the latter part of ’83, so I was 15 years old at the time. I watched it at our local theater, “Folkan”, here in Klippan, which sadly closed down in 1992 and a year later, the building that housed the theater burned down. Most of the theater…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Timerider (1982)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Let’s go back in time, shall we? (Pun intended!) Let’s go waaayy back in time. I must have been 15-years-old, maybe 16, and my best friend Michael and I had just rented Timerider. I’ve stated this before, but we DID rent a LOT of movies back then and this one would have been right up our…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Westworld (1973)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Hi. Ed Ramsey from Delos. If there’s anyone who doesn’t know what Delos is, well, as we’ve always said: Delos is the vacation of the future, today. At Delos, you get your choice of the vacation you want. There’s Medieval World, Roman World and, of course, Westworld.” Wouldn’t you want to have the vacation of your…
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