Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
Rating: ★★
Apr 2, 2004Nuclear Missile Silo Hijacking
Robert Aldrich makes a thriller in which rogue general Burt Lancaster hijacks a nuclear missile silo and demands the truth about the Vietnam War be released. A big muscular production that attained some controversy at the time

The Final Countdown (1980)

The Final Countdown (1980)
Rating: ★★
Jul 29, 2002Aircraft Carrier Time-Travels Back to Pearl Harbor
A big-budget film that has one of the great SF premises - what if a modern aircraft carrier were transported back in time to the eve of Pearl Harbor - only to end up blowing it.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Rating: ★★
Jan 15, 2020Scarecrow Enacts Supernatural Retribution
Frank De Felitta was mostly known for writing the novel that became Audrey Rose. He directs this tv movie where intellectually handicapped Larry Drake is killed by a lynch mob only to return from the dead as a scarecrow

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 10, 2001Black Comedy/Divine Intervention
One of the Coen Brothers’ strangest films – imagine a homage to a 1940s Howard Hawks film conducted on giant oversized sets like something out of Brazil with a blacker-than-black sense of humour and angels in the mix