A decade under the influence

Limited word space here now. Story of my life in the cyber realm, always 568 characters too many, which is shite when you think about it. Life is longer than a soundbite. Six movies today, let’s go! (Mind Snatchers 1972) is a movie about the military doing mind experiments on violent jerks starring Christopher Walken, and Cohaagen from Total Recall. (The Car 1977) is a movie about how a hick town...

8 more 70’s movie reviews in the can. Starting things off today with (Billy Jack 1971). This is a sequel to a 1967 film called Born Losers, and it is just out of our reach for us. Here is a movie written by the 2 stars in the film and directed by BJ himself. Seems like a real labor of love, and it’s pretty great and we’ll tell ya’ll about it very shortly, or we already are and your reading while y...

Six more movies reviews, don’t worry we have more showcases coming soon, but hey let’s dive in. Today we are doin it, ever so slightly differently. For you dear listener it is basically nothing, but for us or me specifically it feels like great fun. We have our five prepared reviews, and then we pause the pod car, watch the 6th then come back and give our freshest review ever. Starting off today w...

8 more movie reviews for you today, and lets dive right in. Wait! Hold up for just a second, cause today we also do a lil mini celebration of having reviewed over 225 films here. Just about halfway for film reviews according to my ever expanding list. So we share some of our favorites and not so favs from the list. Ok back to it. We start off today with (Cold Turkey 1971). Here we have Dick van Dy...

Today, your D.U.I. crew takes on the other huge mini series of the 70’s Holocaust 1978. It aired for 4 consecutive nights form April 16 to April 19th 1978. It was created and written by Gerald Green. Very interesting person, and also mini series, to say the very least about it, because you can just press play and hear all about it. We will be discussing the plot which centers around the fictional...

Can you believe it peep’s? Six more 70’s movie reviews for you. 4 from 1975, one 1978 sequel to a 1975 film, and one 1980 film that’s just there to bring some fun random chaos, and that’s not sayin anything about the film itself, we’ll get there. Starting off our 4- 75’s in alphabetical order we have Disney’s (Escape to witch mountain 1975). I’m sorry but give me just 25 million dollars and I know...

Movie reviews forever. Seven 70’s film to review, for you, today. We’ve got three greats, one really good, one good, one with a very problematic scene, and one crappy Disney film, that one of our crew has been conditioned by Disney to enjoy more than the other 2 who are less susceptible to the power of the D. That’s it were done. Not really but seriously lets roll through them quick. (watermelon m...

Film reviews, shmilm reviews! I’ve gotta catch up on these film reviews. Hi friends today we have a podcast available for you to listen to and perhaps even enjoy where we review 6 movies from the 70’s. If yer curious about them we will give you some insights and maybe spoil a lil bit of a 40 to 50 year old plus film. I don’t think we will do any real enjoyment damage though, I dunno, tell me diffe...

Hi film friends, today we’re doin a showcase of 1978’s the Big Fix, the last film in director Jeremy Kagen’s trilogy about 60’s and 70’s protest movement issues. Katherine 1975 deals with radicals turning to armed struggle, Heroes 1977 deals with broken soldiers back from Vietnam, and today we gots the Big fix which gives us a detective story about a person trying to survive and thrive with his id...

Hi film friends, today we’re doin a showcase of 1978’s the Big Fix, the last film in director Jeremy Kagen’s trilogy about 60’s and 70’s protest movement issues. Katherine 1975 deals with radicals turning to armed struggle, Heroes 1977 deals with broken soldiers back from Vietnam, and today we gots the Big fix which gives us a detective story about a person trying to survive and thrive with his id...

Reviews reviews reviews, hey ho, let’s GO! That said I’m still not a Ramones fan, though I like about 2 songs, whatever. Love them or hate em, let’s kick off another round of 70’s movie reviews. Today’s offering starts off with a 1970 made for TV movie which later did get a theatrical release titled (The Tribe). Here the dad from a Christmas story, hates that the marines are now taking draftee’s....

Roots 1977- Shot of espresso is freshly downed, cracks knuckles, let’s go. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the mini series Roots, which came into our living rooms for 8 nights starting on jan 23 1977. I remember watching at least some of this with my parents and four sisters at the young age of 6, so I think it was probably mandatory family viewing, in mine and in most cool fam...

Espresso fueled review, coming your way, strap in my magical film fans. Six films today, and holy flipping flip, five of them begin with the letter B, wait, 4 1/2. Let’s roll! Starting things off today is Robert De Niro in 1973’s (Bang the the drum slowly) I know I shouldn’t expect a baseball film to be amazing, but the the bingo Darth Vader Richard Pryor one seemed to do ok, also it’s well made a...

Movie review time. Swigs coffee………… I need to, or this will just sound proper and normal, and that simply just won’t do. Today we start with a cheeky one, it’s $’s, or dollar sign the movie, or as it stands now, (Dollars 1971). Wait it’s still dollar sign the movie on IMDB $. Anyway it stars Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, and Robert Wagner, in a plot that involves money, hijinks, and car crashes, and...

Well this all starts with me going to goodwill over 20 years ago and getting a book on films. It has a picture of Darth Vader walking down the middle of the street with a bunch of young peeps and Diahann Carroll. It looks fierce AF, and just like the film for me. It also looks like a big picture, so why was it buried. I couldn’t get a copy, and there was little info on it. Made me want it more. So...

Well this all starts with me going to goodwill over 20 years ago and getting a book on films. It has a picture of Darth Vader walking down the middle of the street with a bunch of young peeps and Diahann Carroll. It looks fierce AF, and just like the film for me. It also looks like a big picture, so why was it buried. I couldn’t get a copy, and there was little info on it. Made me want it more. So...

Espresso fueled quick review synopsis. Seven more 70’s movies to review for you today. Let’s begin with Lee Remick, some Fonda’s and Paul Newman in the film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s (Sometimes a great notion 1972) The review will be a breeze and we’ll all agree because this story isn’t dark or complex in any way. Next up is an even more light hearted romp about a scared teens journey to try to ge...

Hi  Today we’re scientists in an unground lab  trying to stop borg ants from killing us all. Actually our friend Tim brought over the trippy sci fi cult film Phase 4, and only Tim has seen it. We watch it and discuss it and all it’s weirdness. Sadly some insects were killed durning the filming of this, they’ll be in their trailers, in the sky. I joke but it’s a bit of a bummer.  Als...

Hi  Today we’re scientists in an unground lab  trying to stop borg ants from killing us all. Actually our friend Tim brought over the trippy sci fi cult film Phase 4, and only Tim has seen it. We watch it and discuss it and all it’s weirdness. Sadly some insects were killed durning the filming of this, they’ll be in their trailers, in the sky. I joke but it’s a bit of a bummer.  Als...

Movie reviews oh movie reviews. We are just cranking through the 70’s films. Today we add 7 more to the vault for your listening pleasure. Let’s review our reviews. Today’s offering begin’s with (Kelly’s Heroes 1970) I love Donald Sutherland very much but this darn accent. Get ready for Kojack and explosions.  Next is (Kotch 1971) where Walter Matthau puts on the old man make up and rambles....

Hi film friends. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the entire ruling class, with our long knives drawn. Actually we just take on the movie (The ruling class 1972) which takes on the class system in English specifically and the world in general.  A mighty task indeed. Peter O’toole and Director Peter Medak in preparation for this epic went to Ireland for a couple of weeks, th...

Hi film friends. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the entire ruling class, with our long knives drawn. Actually we just take on the movie (The ruling class 1972) which takes on the class system in English specifically and the world in general.  A mighty task indeed. Peter O’toole and Director Peter Medak in preparation for this epic went to Ireland for a couple of weeks, th...

Six more 70’s movie reviews for you, and they are more disconnected than usual.  It doesn’t matter but usually our movie reviews have at least a lil thread that combines at least some of them, consciously or unconsciously. I guess 2 of these do, gawd. Anyway let’s start.  First up is (Cotton comes to Harlem 1970), an early blaxploitation film that is as weird as the term blaxploitation....

Hi film friends, today we gots seven new reviews for you starting off with (Emperor of the north 1973) where 2 train hoppers are brutally hunted by the cab driver from escape from New York.  Next up is (A warm December 1973)  Here we have Sidney Portier once again showing racist asshats that people of color are capable of anything they are. (Your three minutes are up 1973) is up, and this hard to...

Stuff makes zombies! And we are done.  Today we tackle the epic cult masterpiece Dawn of the dead 1978. Much has been podcasted about this one, so of course, here’s over 2 hours more. We are watching and discussing the theatrical cut. Chosen for its 70’s pure-ism, but seriously I would of been happy watching almost any cut of this. Dive in with us as we ask “what are the doing why do they com...