Does the gag make the transition from two minutes to 86 minutes? It depends on your tastes, and “Hobo” is purposely full of that which resides on the poor side. To cult-film followers, that should be taken as a rec to rent. The great Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner” forever!) stars as Hobo — yes, just […]
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Haunted Summer
To combat this, producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus made the occasional stab at respectability, like 1988’s “Haunted Summer.” Directed by Ivan Passer (“Loves of a Blonde”), it’s a dramatization of the wild week in 1816 amid a summer Switzerland paradise when horror fiction practically was born overnight. Mind you, it’s not too high-minded; a […]
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Call Me Bwana
Its flimsiest of plots posits that a moon probe has accidentally crash-landed among the dangerous Ekele tribe in Africa, and the Americans need to nab it before it falls into the hands of another nation. The U.S. government calls upon Matthew Merriwether (Hope), a published expert on the continent who claims to have shaken hands […]