CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974)

“Pal… I’m gonna win!!!” So says George Segal’s Bill Denny as he’s being flattened by the pressures of his overdue gambling debts, his irritated bookie, and being stuck in the unenviable position of having run out of personal items to sell for gambling money. It should also be said that he’s been on one hell […]

THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)

Philip Marlowe has been asleep. Whether it’s been a literal and continuous Big Sleep that has lasted since 1946 is unclear. But there are clues scattered about which suggest that it is. First off, genius screenwriter Leigh Brackett is back with another adaptation of a Raymond Chandler novel just as she was all those years […]