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  • North by Northwest
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Heroes of the East
  • Once Upon a Time in the West

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  • The Wicker Man

    ★★★★½

  • Dolemite

    ★★★★★

  • Electra Glide in Blue

    ★★★★

  • Twisted Nerve

    ★★★½

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  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★★

    On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
    Martin Scorsese

    After his much anticipated King Of Comedy turned out to be a monumental flop, Scorsese must have really suffered. But if the low-scale, budget-reduced After Hours was supposed to be his atonement for that disappointment, it wouldn’t be Scorsese if it didn’t actually turn out to be something even wilder, stranger and more challenging. And boy, does he make his hero suffer.
    This ultimate one-crazy-night story feels…

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  • The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man

    ★★★★½

    Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man!

    Tired of going to the same old places everybody goes?
    Looking for an exclusive, once-in-lifetime holiday experience?

    Come visit SUMMERISLE, a picturesque small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for its tasty apples, and so much more!
    It won’t just be the attractive isle‘s bountiful harvest that will stop you in your tracks in amazement. You‘ll adore the delightful, traditional village with its inviting little shops that…

  • Dolemite

    Dolemite

    ★★★★★

    Bone-crushing, skull-splitting, brain-blasting action! 

    Now let’s see:
    That’s one half star for being the funniest, most outrageous, most absurd entry in the annals of blaxploitation. Better be called what-the-heckxploitation.

    One half star for the late, great Rudy Ray Moore, who had the glorious inspiration of bringing his stand-up alter ego, jive-talkin', ass-kickin' super-pimp Dolemite, to the big screen, without letting trifles like filmmaking or acting talent get in the way.

    One half star for the amazing  Dolemite himself, savagely chopping,…

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  • Electra Glide in Blue

    Electra Glide in Blue

    ★★★★

    Loneliness can kill you deader than a .357 Magnum.

    A cop movie like no other that deserves to be high on every 70s cult cinema list. 
    It moves to a rhythm all its own and I have a hard time comparing it to anything else out there. John Ford by way of David Lynch was the first thing that sprang to my mind, but that still doesn’t get you halfway there. Its refusal to play by the established cinematic rules…

  • The Crawling Eye

    The Crawling Eye

    ★★★½

    Nothing like a good pulpy movie poster:
    The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonising horror on a screaming world! 

    How better to describe this grand old British horror/sci-fi/monster-movie mashup that’s more dumb fun than it has any right to be. 
    Seriously, this hellishly entertaining low-budget shocker is way too often lumped among the many trashy genre misfires that usually ended up on the bottom half of poverty-row double bills or shamefully hidden away on late late night…