Eddie Coyle is a small time operator who’s going to be moving into the “Big House”  if he can’t make some kinda deal fast. But, as the old saying goes “you know who your friends are on moving day“. Join us for The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos…

The coolest of the cool, Steve McQueen stars in the high octane, crime drama The Getaway. Directed by the notorious Sam Peckinpah and co-starring the impossibly beautiful (and gun toting!) Ali MacGraw. Featuring: Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Bo Hopkins, Sally Struthers, Slim Pickens, Richard Bright and Dub Taylor. Screenplay by By Walter Hill, Photographed by…

Albert Brooks takes love to sweepingly new neurotic heights!! And takes us, as well, behind the scenes of that beautiful sausage factory called Hollywood. In his triple threat (writer, director & actor) piece of cinematic comedy brilliance, Modern Romance. Also starring Kathryn Harrold, James L. Brooks, Bruno Kirby and George Kennedy “as himself”. Join us for some laughs. After all,…

Martin Scorsese carved out his early career with films like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. Gut punch & harrowing films. But, sandwiched between those two landmark films is a lost Scorsese classic. A story of a woman desperately trying to carve out a life for herself and her teenage son. “Directed with wit, sensitivity and…

Blaxploitation was a staple of the 1970’s, and like all genres there are good ones (see Film Detour Episode 2) and bad ones. John Huston once said “We can make ’em BAD too, if that’s what they want”. Gordon Parks Jr. answered that clarion call with “Three The Hard Way”, starring Jim Brown, Fred “The…

Warren Oates is one the great screen actors of all time. He’s easily as good as Brando, De Niro or Daniel Day Lewis. In this episode of Film Detour he leads a disparate party through the Utah Desert. Captured spectacularly by cinematographer Gregory Sandor, masterfully directed by Monte Hellman, co-starring the nastiest Jack Nicholson this…

Take Dustin Hoffman in his 1970’s prime, mix him with some nitro glycerin (stir gently) and you’ve got Max Dembo, in the classic crime drama Straight Time. Brilliantly directed by Ulu Grosbard, this movie set the gold standard for all heist movies to follow. In it Hoffman delivers his most explosive performance ever as an ex-con trying to go…

Ride In The Whirlwind Monte Hellman is the great unsung hero of filmmaking in the 1970’s. A highly skilled writer, director, editor and photographer, a true Renaissance man. He created beautifully unconventional films in his unique and uncompromising style. In this two part series we will focus on two “revisionist” Westerns he made with Jack Nicholson…

Here’s an idea. Take James Bond (Sean Connery fresh out of his 007 tux), strip him down to almost naked, give him really long hair tied up in a braid, a sorta Village People handlebar mustache, red bandoliers crisscrossing his bare, hairy chest, a red jockstrap kinda thing to cover his privates, thigh high leather…