"Shaft" Sticks It To The Man!

This week marks a very important one in black cinema history, 40 years ago Richard Roundtree played the leading role as John Shaft in the film Shaft. The film did so well at the box office that it spawned two films after that, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa.

One Great Sleuth

One of the greatest sleuth's (Detective for you non mystery types) and television icon has passed away today, Pete Falk aka Columbo. Columbo was one of my favorite detective shows of all time that I used to watch as a kid. He was always snooping around, being a problem and always barking up the wrong tree but he always solved the case. He wasn't a clean cut Magnum P.I. type of guy but more of the wrinkled care free cigar smoking detective with a very unforgettable personality.

Raiders of The Lost Ark

This past weekend the entire Indiana Jones movies were on and of course on a rainy Sunday when there's nothing else to do I watched alot of television. Raiders is one of those movies that I always watch but have never over watch it to the point where it gets old. I've seen it in the theaters, on cable when it made its debut, network television with commercials on DVD and and even owned the Atari 2600 game and it still has the same effect.

RIP Irvin Kershner

RIP to Irvin Kershner, director of Empire Strikes Back which in my opinion is the best of the three original trilogy.

The Legend, Bruce Lee!

Today marks the birthday of the "Best to ever do it", Bruce Lee. His movies have kept me up late nights for years!

The Hot Cool and Vicious

Here's a flick that I haven't seen in some years. I'm usually a Shaw Brothers type of guy but everyone once in a while one of the other companies will put something out worthy of viewing.

Travelin thru time

Here's a promo for the TV show Time Tunnel that I used to watch alot of. I pulled out a VHS last night to go thru a few eps to see if I still enjoyed it and I actually did, no enough to watch a complete season but to watch from time to time.