If one genre was to stand out in the 70s that would have to be the disaster genre with films like Airport (1970), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Avalanche (1978), Damnation Alley (1979), The Swarm (1978) and Meteor (1979) populating the theatres throughout the 70s, but…
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Review
“Who in the hell would steal a subway train?” This question is asked a lot in this 1974 crime thriller by director Joseph Sargent, which was based on the hit book by Morton Freedgood under the pen name John Godey, but what is not asked often enough is, “Who in the hell would remake this…
Jaws: The Revenge (1987) – Review
No movie series epitomizes the Hollywood sequel machine and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” more than the Jaws series.
Jaws 3-D (1983) – Review
After Jaws 2 hit theatres and was the highest-grossing sequel up to that point in time, producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck were interested in making the third installment a send-up of the previous two films, entitled Jaws 3, People 0.
Jaws 2 (1978) – Review
The effect of Spielberg’s shark movie cannot be overstated, not since Norman Bates ruined showers for millions of people has a film kept so many people out of the water, so the idea of a sequel to this mega-blockbuster seems natural by today’s standards, but sequels were not the norm at this point in history.