Movies ala Mark

POINT BREAK is the one where Patrick Swayze heaves a pit bull at Keanu Reeves—and you’re, what—surprised that it’s become a cult film? The terrier toss occurs during a wild foot chase, which follows...

One way to get thru the movie

EL CONDOR shot its way into 1970 with a rating of R, owing to the quotient of violence and nudity....

SEMI-TOUGH was one of the big hits of 1977, a winning combination of rom-com, sports flick and social mores lampoon.  Its amiably sharp director Michael Ritchie called it as a “strong statement for frivolousness...

Wildly misleading poster art

THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE shows his true colors during the third year of America’s struggle for independence from Great Britain. The New Hampshire t...

THE OLD MAN & THE GUN does what innumerable movies have done, fashion enjoyable entertainment out of a true story, taking expected and accepted dramatic license liberties in the telling. In the case...