Remember September: Respectful Reel Review #17 — Escape from New York (1981)

MOVIE TITLE: Escape From New York IMDB YEAR RELEASED: 1981 GENRE: Dystopian / Science Fiction, Action STARRING: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Charlie Cyphers, Season Hubley, and Tom Atkins DIRECTED BY: John Carpenter SUMMARY: In a future with out-of-control crime, Manhattan island has been […]

CODE NAME – CAPRICORN: ENTER THE DRAGON

A SECRET AGENT GOES TO A CRIME LORD’S ISLAND FORTRESS WITH OTHER FIGHTERS TO COMPETE IN A MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT! ENTER THE DRAGON is a 1973 martial arts/secret agent/action film directed by Robert Clouse, produced by Fred Weintraub, Paul Heller, and Raymond Chow, and written by Michael Allin. It stars Bruce Lee, John Saxon, and […]

Codename Capricorn: The Making of a Secret Agent

After watching the movie Hanna (2011) which I thoroughly enjoyed, I figured that I would take the opportunity to continue to enjoy the story in the series that began in 2019 on Amazon. It contained some of the same characters and amplified some of the themes that were proposed by the movie. My expectations for […]