Movie Review #33 - Bang the Drum Slowly - Busting - The Dion Brothers - Black Moon - Welcome Home Brother Charles - Emma Mae

A decade under the influence

Espresso fueled review, coming your way, strap in my magical film fans. Six films today, and holy flipping flip, five of them begin with the letter B, wait, 4 1/2.

Let’s roll! Starting things off today is Robert De Niro in 1973’s (Bang the the drum slowly) I know I shouldn’t expect a baseball film to be amazing, but the the bingo Darth Vader Richard Pryor one seemed to do ok, also it’s well made and we certainly find things to talk about.

Next today is (Busting)1974. Here we have 2 mumbling and bumbling vice cops, played by 70’s fav Elliot Gould and Robert Blake, former little rascal and probably another famous person who got away with murder. Very icky, though I think they again got him on a civil suit. Clean up yer trash Hollywood. Film is directed by Peter Hyams who also wrote this quintessential 70’s L.A. film. I hope we can visit a location or 2 from this one sometime soon.

Moving on to (the Dion Brothers) 1974. Here is another film with 2 titles, it was originally called the gravy train, these damned films are always making things more confusing then they need to be. I was personally refreshed by the pure insanity of this one, not to build it up too much, but wow. Got a bootleg ish copy of this one, and it definitely needs a blu-ray a billion percent more than our last “Do not reccomend” film the night porter, Dominic shakes his head again, get it together people. This chaos stars Stacy Keach, Frederic Forrest, and Margo Kidder, with a story by jack Starrett. Film is about 2 brothers who give up their dead end jobs to rob an armed car so they can open up a high end seafood restaurant, and they don’t seem to know shit about seafood. I do hope y’all can see this one someday, if ya know me I’ll run it for you.

Next up is (Black Moon) 1975. Imdb says that this is about a girl who goes to a mystical house to escape a gender war. Which as much as I like the film, makes it sound better than it is, to me, still nuts and fun to look at and go “WHAT?!”

Film is directed by a French guy, and that totally tracks.

Onward to (Welcome home Brother Charles) 1975. This is the first of 3 films we’re reviewing by rad director Jamaa Fanaka, 2 of which we are doin today. Here we have a very run of the mill plot about evil murderous LA cops and their attempt to brutally kill Charles, who survives and rids the world of these racists with his supernatural penis. Oh………. that doesn’t sound boring, hmmm. Jokes aside, yes this is another rad film that melted my brain. Not perfect, but I for one am happy it was written and filmed, and that we watched and reviewed this together.

Finally today we have the other Jamaa film ,(Emma Mae) 1976. many dvd’s of this call it Black sister’s revenge, again we acknowledge the confusion master, which is also the title of an amazing metal record as well. What to say about this Compton classic except, rad, very rad, and great. Also it’s my best of the bunch and I do hope you enjoy our review, and all our reviews today. Please reach out and help spread the word if you can.

Thank you as always for listening.