SYNOPSIS: “The year is 1936. Archeology professor Indiana Jones narrowly escapes death in a South American temple with a gold idol – by poison dart, fall, and finally a giant boulder that chases him out the front. An old enemy, Rene Belloq, steals the idol and then orders Hovito Indians after Indy. Indy, however, escapes back to the USA, where …
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Film Review: Crucible of Terror (1971)
SYNOPSIS: A group of people staying at the home of a reclusive artist are killed off one-by-one by a mysterious murderer. REVIEW: Even though it was made back in 1971 I didn’t know a whole lot about Crucible of Terror. I’d heard of it and knew that it existed but I had no clue what it was about or anything …
Read More »Film Review: Making the Grade (1984)
SYNOPSIS: Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie’s gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the the scheme …
Read More »Film Review: The Final Programme (1973)
SYNOPSIS: “After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious ‘Final programme’ developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who literally consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius’s help …
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