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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Duel (1971)

  • September 23, 2011
  • Tagged as: 70's movies, 70's thriller, chase movie, Dennis Weaver, Duel, Richard Matheson, scary truck, Steven Spielberg, trucker movies

by Peter Nielsen David Mann is an ordinary businessman on his way to an ordinary appointment with a client on an ordinary day. Or rather… that’s what he thinks! On the road he comes across…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Convoy (1978)

  • September 16, 2011
  • Tagged as: 70's movies, Ali MacGraw, big rigs, C.W. McCall, Convoy, Ernest Borgnine, Kris Kristofferson, Rubber Duck, Sam Peckinpah, smokey, trucker movies, Trucks

by Peter Nielsen C.W. McCall released the song ”Convoy” in 1975 and it became an instant hit on the country charts and actually on a couple of charts around the world too. It also helped…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

  • September 9, 2011
  • Tagged as: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Smokey and the Bandit, trucker movies

by Peter Nielsen Welcome to the second edition of my trucker special. I’m happy to see that many of you came back this week too. Let’s see some hands here! How many of you came…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Breaker! Breaker! (1977)

  • September 2, 2011
  • Tagged as: 70's action movies, action, Breaker! Breaker!, Chuck Norris, karate, kicking butt, martial arts, trucker movies

by Peter Nielsen For the next month or so, I’ll be doing reviews with a certain theme to them. Sound good? Or at least slightly interesting? Maybe you’re thinking that my mind has taken a…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: The Last Dragon (1985)

  • August 25, 2011
  • Tagged as: 80's action, Bruce Leroy, Christopher Murney, Kung Fu, martial arts, Sho'Nuff, Taimak, The Last Dragon, the Shogun of Harlem, Vanity

by Peter Nielsen Let’s take another trip down memory-lane! It’s 1985 and my 17 year old self was at a late-night screening in Copenhagen, Denmark. My chosen movie for the evening was The Last Dragon…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Red Dawn (1984)

  • August 18, 2011
  • Tagged as: 80's action movies, 80's war movie, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thompson, Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe, Red Dawn, what if, William Smith, wolverines

by Peter Nielsen I think I was 17 when I first saw Red Dawn back in 1985. I never caught it in the theater so that’s why I didn’t see it ‘til then, but I…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Running Scared (1986)

  • August 11, 2011
  • Tagged as: 80's action-comedies, Billy Crystal, buddy cop movies, drugs, Gregory Hines, Jimmy Smits, Joe Pantoliano, Running Scared

by Peter Nielsen I must admit that I had totally forgotten how friggin’ awesome this movie is. I’ve seen it a couple of times before, but it must be at least 15 years since the…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Barbarella (1968)

  • August 4, 2011
  • Tagged as: 60's scifi, Barbarella, cult classic, Jane Fonda, psychedelic movie, Queen of the Galaxy, spaceships, The Excessive Machine, trippy

by Peter Nielsen As we stroll down the big movie highway, we turn left at road’o’classics and then another left at cult-classic alley and then come to a full stop when we reach Barbarella. Sprung…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

  • July 28, 2011
  • Tagged as: 80's comedies, B&W classics, classic detective story, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Humphrey Bogart, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Steve Martin

by Peter Nielsen This is my favorite Steve Martin-movie! Sure, he’s made other funny movies too, like for instance The Jerk, Three Amigos and All of Me, but he was never better or funnier than…

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Peter’s Retro Reviews: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

  • July 21, 2011
  • Tagged as: 70's horror movies, creature feature, Kingdom of the Spiders, spiders, tarantulas, William Shatner

by Peter Nielsen ”A Living, Crawling Hell on Earth” As a teen I used to pass this movie many, many times in the horror section. I’d pick it up, read the back, look at the…

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