The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Catholic school boys and comics.

"...only difference between these boys growing up in the Seventies and their contemporaries is that they're entering puberty under..."

June 21, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Bourne Identity

"...Identity isn't a remake of one of those taut Seventies-era thrillers like The Marathon Man or The Parallax View,..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grateful Dawg

"...in the parking lot between sets. During the early Seventies the two played together in a legendary bluegrass band..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wet Hot American Summer

Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams, largely culled from comedy troupe the State.

"...of those old summer camp sexcapades of the late Seventies and early Eighties has got the “big” nailed down..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bones

"...fully. Bones, which casts rapper Snoop Dogg as a Seventies-era pimp who returns from the dead to avenge his..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pitch People

"...Jacobs. If you grew up watching TV in the Seventies, as I did, then you doubtless have a small..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terminal Island

"...and Clyde Ventura. "Welcome to Terminal Island, baby." This Seventies exploitation gem has been repackaged a few times since..."

May 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Knight's Tale

This warped medieval yarn about a peasant who passes himself off as a knight glides by on a funny, friendly, goofy sort of goodness.

"...typically, plays hard to get. A rousing (if clichéd) Seventies cock rock soundtrack underscores the action (“Low Rider” accompanies..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Driven

"...feels desperately overscripted and straight out of an early Seventies TV movie of the week, complete with tortured egos..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Josie and the Pussycats

It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.

"...on CBS and then NBC for much of the early-to-mid-Seventies, this Day-Glo, pop-art updating is far more subversive than..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blow

"...Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta and Denis Leary. In the Seventies, George Jung (Depp) brought cocaine back from the dead,..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mister Scarface

This stylishly violent Italian crime film is by one of the pulp masters.

"...Palance, Al Cliver, Harry Baer and Gisela Hahn. This Seventies Italian crime film stars Jack Palance and is directed..."

March 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...Jr., Mandy Matthews, Tommy Flanagan and William Eadie. Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. Children in the..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...that made up the local music scene in the Seventies...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Jerry's Deli

"...filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park"..."

Nov. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jesus' Son

"...this New Zealander's gray Iowa streets of the early Seventies and the hallucinogenic aberrations of her characters. Adding to..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scary Movie

Keenen Ivory Wayans' broad spoof of the horror/comedy Scream series.

"...I'm Gonna Git You Sucka successfully parodied the whole Seventies blaxploitation genre (and did it years before Quentin Tarantino..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Filth and the Fury

"...glimpses into the cultural background of England in the mid-Seventies - a raging cauldron of economic and political chaos..."

May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

West Beirut

"...was like to grow up in Beirut during the mid-Seventies. It is also a portrait of the universal condition..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Waking the Dead

"...bounces back and forth in time from the early Seventies to the early Eighties, and the ricochet motion of..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What Planet Are You From?

"...of filmmaking styles), has fashioned a throwback to the mid-Seventies with What Planet Are You From?, a film that..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe the King

"...take-no-prisoners journey back to the bad old daze of mid-Seventies upstate New York, where 14-year-old Joe Henry (Fleiss) sad-sacks..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That's the Way I Like it

"...nail both the frustrations of coming of age in mid-Seventies Singapore as well as echo the day-to-day comedic shenanigans..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dick

"...he immediately begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam), and cluttered Seventies humor. The real humor arises not from the girls,..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

"...the purest examples of unmitigated artistic self-indulgence since the Seventies heyday of Ken Russell. So why am I feeling..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Summer of Sam

"...choice of oh-so-grainy film stock, and Elmer Bernstein's brooding, neo-Seventies score. It's too ambitious, I think, and certainly too..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mighty Peking Man

This 1977 Shaw Brothers production from Hong Kong is a gleefully silly riff on everything monster movies and was re-released under the auspices of Quentin Tarantino in 1999.

"...revitalize the currently moribund midnight movie situation, this is Seventies hokum of the purest stripe: stunningly mediocre rear projection..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Patch Adams

"...of the turbulence of the late Sixties and early Seventies; his renegade approach to medicine had parallels in all..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Velvet Goldmine

"...Early-Seventies glam-rock culture, that brief but spectacular global explosion of..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Practical Magic

"...joie de vivre than conga-lining around the house to Seventies pop tunes. Or a little more effort by the..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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