Movie Review #36 - The Anderson Tapes - Glass House - Oh Lucky Man - Scott Joplin - Coma - Hooper

A decade under the influence

Film reviews, shmilm reviews! I’ve gotta catch up on these film reviews.

Hi friends today we have a podcast available for you to listen to and perhaps even enjoy where we review 6 movies from the 70’s. If yer curious about them we will give you some insights and maybe spoil a lil bit of a 40 to 50 year old plus film. I don’t think we will do any real enjoyment damage though, I dunno, tell me different. Also if you like any of these films, you get some nice new content about it, thus strengthening our great shared experience of life.

Ok, we begin today with Sidney Lumet’s (The Anderson Tapes 1971) I can tell you that at the very least it represents trippy early 70’s filming very well. Next we review (Glass House 1972) where Captain Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce, finds himself in a very serious 70’s prison movie.

Onward cinephiles to (Oh Lucky Man 73) which according to Henry Rollins in his fun book, Get in the van is one of Sham 69 vocalists Jimmy Pursey’s favorite films. We split a lil on this one, oh what fun. When researching wiki for the spelling of Jimmy’s last name I noticed they once had a drummer called Danny fury that is NOT the same drummer as the Avengers Danny Furious, wow.

Back to review list info with (Scott Joplin 1977) Here we have usually non period piece director Jeremy Kagan giving us a period piece about the greatest ragtime performer of all time. Sounded way worse than it was, though V said it didn’t capture his life well enough. Would you like to know more?

Second to last we have (Coma 1978) O.G. Janeway and the alligator boots guy from romancing the stone star in this good but barely sci fi thriller that we figure out is perhaps not as cool as just looking at the poster makes you think it is. It does of course make it one of the greatest movie posters of all time.

Finally today yer decade under the influence crew will review (Hooper 1978). This one was fun to research, I had no idea how perfect it was for (RAD 1986) movie director Hal Needham to direct this film about stunt peeps. Jan Michael Vincent, the guy from boogie nights, and sybil drink and f shit up magically in this, enjoy. Thanks for listening.