Tag Archives: Action
The Warriors (1979)
Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) intends to make the viewer uncomfortable from the very start. He plunges us into a New York City overrun with street gangs, with no traditional audience surrogate, no Serpico. The opening credits of red spray … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Action, Dystopia, Gangs, Science Fiction, Subway, Walter Hill
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Mad Max 2 (1981)
Two years after the benchmark Ozploitation film Mad Max (1979), director George Miller returned to the world of violent punks and souped-up cars with Mad Max 2 (1981). The film was cautiously retitled The Road Warrior for the U.S., because … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Action, Australian, Car Chase, Feral Kid, Mad Max, Mel Gibson, Post Apocalyptic, Punk, Science Fiction
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The Lost World (1925)
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Lost World in Strand Magazine in 1912, he was allowing his name to be associated not just with his creation Sherlock Holmes, but with the likes of speculative fiction authors H. Rider Haggard … Continue reading
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Tagged 20's, Action, dinosaurs, lovable animals, prehistoric, Silent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stop Motion, Wallace Beery, Willis O'Brien
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