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David McK (3623 KP) rated Smokey and the Bandit (1977) in Movies

Sep 11, 2022

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

1977 | Action, Comedy

6.9

(8 Ratings)

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Late 70s 'road trip' film, essentially a star vehicle for Burt Reynolds, with Reynolds as 'The Bandit' who is hired/bet to bootleg Coors beer cross-country over state lines (at a time when that was illegal to do so), using his Pontia Firebird TransAm to run interference for the truck driver who actually has that cargo.

Along the way he picks up a runaway bride (Sally Field), and is also relentlessly pursued by Jackie Gleeson's unforgettable Sheriff Buford T. Justice.

Elements reminded me a bit of Wacky Races cartoon, or even that Roger Moore Bond film ('The Man with the Golden Gun', I think) where Bond's car has to jump over an out-of-commission bridge ...

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The Ancients

Aaron Jackson (USA)

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The towers have fallen, and the gate is closed. As Caldera settles and all eyes look outwards,...

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David McK (3623 KP) rated Agatha All Along in TV

Nov 8, 2024 (Updated Nov 8, 2024)

Possibly the best of the modern MCU TV shows since their first (Wandavision), of which this is a sort of spin-off as it follows the break-out star of that pervious series in Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness.

As the show starts, she is still in Westview and still under the Scarlet Witches spell, but it's not long - tail end of the first episode - before she is free of said spell, and travelling down the heretofore believed to be mythical Witches Road in search of her lost power in the company of several others, including Joe Locke's Teen and Aubrey Plaza's Rio Vidal, both of whom have connections to Agatha's past life in particular ...