Cinema Narcs

Andrew sits 30 feet away from Michael Biehn at a screening of… “The Victim”!

MOVIE - “Shaft” DIRECTOR – Gordon Parks WRITER – Ernest Tidyman, John F.D. Black SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑Director Gordon Parks brings an intense visual style to “Shaft.”  That’s easy to do when you’re a professional photographer for Life Magazine.  Parks is also the co-founder of Essence Magazine; Parks’s Hitchcock cameo is as the [...]

MOVIE – “Chronicle” DIRECTOR – Josh Trank WRITER – Max Landis SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW –If the name Max Landis sounds familiar to you, then that’s because you’re a fan of Masters of Horror. He wrote the episode Deer Woman, which was directed by his father. His father? Why, he’s none other than [...]

MOVIE - “Crank” DIRECTOR – Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (as Neveldine/Taylor) WRITER – Neveldine/Taylor SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are as up-close and personal as you can get. During Crank, Neveldine and Taylor were the directors, writers, and even operated the cameras. The two got their start in [...]

MOVIE - “The Family” AKA “Violent City” DIRECTOR – Sergio Sollima WRITERS – Massimo De Rita, Dino Maiuri (story ); Gianfranco Calligarich, Sauro Scavolini, Sergio Sollima, and Lina Wertmuller (screenplay) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑This movie has been released multiple times in the United States alone.  In 1970, it was released as Violent City, [...]

CINEMA NARCS BREAKFAST SERIALS SERIES – Ace Drummond DIRECTORS – Ford Beebe, Cliff Smith WRITERS – Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe SIX DEGREES OF CAST AND CREW – Actor Robert Warwick can be seen in the Joan Crawford thriller, “A Woman’s Face” (1941). Joan also starred in 1954′s “Johnny Guitar”, co-starring a young [...]

Andrew battles time travel and the debate whether James Belushi looks more like a Belushi or a Quaid, in a review of 1997′s “Retroactive”!

Andrew’s first blaxploitation review is a powderkeg with… “T.N.T. Jackson”!

Andrew nearly has a “The Room” level aneurysm trying to review… “For Hire” (1991)

CINEMA NARCS BREAKFAST SERIALS SERIES – Ace Drummond DIRECTORS – Ford Beebe, Cliff Smith WRITERS – Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe REVIEW Might as well try making up for my lack of Ace Drummond reviews by doing two within days of each other, so let’s get crackin’! Chapter Four – The Radio Riddle [...]