This Week’s Homemade FAKE Criterion Cover

I remember seeing this at a nearly empty multiplex theater at a shopping mall in Gadsden, Alabama while on a weekend pass from Ft. McClellan in March 1989. It was the movie's opening weekend. I recall being very disappointed by the movie. Since then, having picked up the DVD (for cheap) and later the Blu-ray, …

Sidewinder’s View: Under Fire (1983) [Warning: SPOILERS]

In an era where self-righteous Marxism trumps journalistic integrity, of course long-forgotten, easily forgettable, yet politically simpatico motion pictures will find an appreciative audience.

Sidewinder’s View: When A Stranger Calls (1979)

From 1979, featuring one of the greatest openings of any Suspense/Horror movie of the Seventies...followed by a so-so 70 minutes, but starring an exceptional cast: Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst, Carol Kane, Ron O'Neal, Rachel Roberts, and the creepy Tony Beckley as the child-killing psychopath who escapes the loony bin and resumes stalking Kane, now a …

A Fool And His Money

When the seller couldn't even be bothered to spell the movie's title correctly, I should have known something was rotten. Serves me right.

Sidewinder’s View: Which Way Is Up? (1977)

Because it was late Seventies, R-rated Richard Pryor, I sat down to watch this picture with high hopes. I really wanted to love it. And I tried. I really tried.