More of Laura Antonelli, or the same amount as usual actually, and recommendable only to those who haven't yet seen all there is of her, or who can't get enough. For others, a bareness different from that of Laura Antonelli will be the salient feature of this Italian sex comedy, …
A good spine-tingling touch: the frazzled heroine, locked accidentally inside a bedroom by a prowling sex murderer who hadn't noticed her hiding in the closet, slides a newspaper underneath the door, probes through the keyhole to jiggle the key loose, and on the the other side of the door the …
The basic idea -- to show skip-tracers as the urban descendants of Wild West bounty hunters -- is fertile enough to fill out an average movie, if not fertile enough for, let's say, a whole television series. The action scenes are excitingly staged, but the moviemakers throw away their chances …
Marooned in the Arctic by shipwreck, three American whalers, ca. 1900, are nursed and adopted by Eskimos, who embrace these strange, full-grown foundlings as "dog-children." The ensuing discoveries of Eskimo culture, through inquisitive and suspicious Western eyes, are assumed, with good reason, to be at least as satisfying to the …
Another of John Cassavetes's warm-hearted films made among friends -- his wife Gena Rowlands, his mother Katharine Cassavetes, his mother-in-law Lady Rowlands, and his good buddy Peter Falk. Characteristically, the director seems interested in, and intimate with, the people themselves, and quite indifferent, or blind, to the people's jobs, pastimes, …
Mel Brooks’s insular spoof on the old Universal Pictures horror series — it doesn’t reach very far in any direction, but it expends a good deal of comic energy within the narrow confines. Basically, it resembles the sort of affectionate parody of old movies common on the Carol Burnett Show, …
A classically styled heroic myth, set in a remote, thoroughly imagined future society, where there still exists a class division, of a sort, and a hairy, naked, virile Sean Connery fights to restore death to the pale privileged class, cursed with immortality. Frugally made, but not obviously stretched too thin; …