T-Bone N Weasel

Made-for-TV Movies are a fascinating and forgotten artifact of American mass culture. Basically B-Movies "not good enough for the theater," they still took time and money to produce, still required name actors, and still basically all have the potential to be quality work, if only the scripts were better... but they rarely are. Steven Spielberg's …

Payday

I'm certainly not the first person to point out that the 1970's were a golden age in American cinema, where filmmakers were free to explore characters through meandering storylines rather than be forced to pack their films with explosions and plot points. Payday is written by the fairly obscure writer, Don Carpenter, and directed by …