Two races of intergalactical robots – the Autobots and the Decepticons – have been waging a century-long war on planet Cybertron for power of the AllSpark, a cube that keeps the surviving race alive. The former is led by Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and the latter is led by Megatron (Hugo Weaving), who has been long since frozen inside the...

This movie helped George Lucas move onto bigger and better things (like the Star Wars saga) and helped make stars out of Paul LeMat, Mackensie Philips, Harrison Ford, Candy Clark, and Richard Dreyfuss (I didn’t include Ron Howard since he was already well-known from the Andy Griffith Show). In this movie, the viewer is treated to the era Lucas...

You have to figure that by 1983 James Taylor was having serious regrets about being one of the four stars of “Two Lane Blacktop”. Dennis Wilson’s 1983 drowning had been proceeded by Warren Oates’ 1982 heart attack and Laurie Bird’s 1979 suicide (she was just age 25). But somehow Taylor has dodged the “Two Lane Blacktop”...

Anti-hero Kowalski has had an eventful and troubled life as a Vietnam vet, policeman, motorcycle racer, and off-track racer. He is now reduced to the more mundane job of a car delivery driver. In his latest assignment – delivering a car from Colorado to California – he starts down a path of self-destruction for no apparent reason. The car,...

This classic cop thriller starring Steve McQueen helped define the “cool cop” genre, along with the Dirty Harry movies and a few others such as the original “Shaft”. It is amazing just how well this epic tale has aged, for watching it one is not really very aware of the decades that have passed other than by the dress and car...

“The Gumball Rally” is really a cult-classic. Overshadowed by the later Burt Reynolds “Cannonball Run” films, “Gumball” is a movie that will please any true automobile enthusiast. Although it was filmed as a comedy, it is just so much more entertaining than the pathetic Burt Reynolds movies. There is a much, much...