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Soylent Green: “How Did We Come to This?”

Soylent Green: “How Did We Come to This?”

Directed by: Richard Fleischer Released: April 1973 Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Joseph Cotton, Edward G. Robinson as Solomon Roth. As we sit here, in 2024, society is in rough shape. The gap between the wealthy and poor is ever increasing, homelessness is at an all-time high, governments and politicians are more interested in their own personal gain over the need of the people they were elected to serve, the gap between government and…

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High Plains Drifter: The Elusive Clint Eastwood Western.

High Plains Drifter: The Elusive Clint Eastwood Western.

Released: 1973 Dir. Clint Eastwood First Time Viewing Reaction               High Plains Drifter is one of those movies that has eluded me for years. I’d seen bits and pieces, but we were never in the same place at the same time. I knew it by reputation alone, and strangely never really knew what the story was actually about, other than Clint Eastwood quite literally paints the town red. So, not being able to find it on any of the streaming…

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American Graffiti: My First ‘Grown Up’ Movie

American Graffiti: My First ‘Grown Up’ Movie

Released: 1973 Dir. George Lucas      After spending years going to the cinema to see, The Jungle Book, The Love Bug, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(twice!), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, there comes a time in a young person’s life to start seeing ‘grown up’ movies. On my 10th birthday that dream became a reality, and I was scared.     Seeing a grown-up movie meant subjecting yourself to a whole new demographic of audience member, and in 1974 that included…hippies. By…

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