A teenager (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend (Mischa Barton) find a gun in his mother’s closet and on their way to school, decide to rob a bank. They take hostages, issue threats, and soon, the FBI and their lead negotiator (Burt Reynolds) try and put a lid on the situation. The kids are mostly making it up as they go along; taking their cues ( Read more... )

Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds. Hal Needham. A documentary on any one of these subjects would have been fascinating. The filmmakers of The Bandit try to cover all three in the course eighty-four minutes. It’s a daunting task ( Read more... )

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HEAT (1986) ** ½

Heat gets things started with a terrific opening scene. Burt Reynolds plays a down and out bodyguard-for-hire named Nick “Mex” Escalante who is spending his evening getting shitfaced in a bar. He sees a blonde in a booth and begins hitting on her. When her boyfriend objects, Burt steals the guy’s toupee and taunts him with ( Read more... )

Mel Funn (Mel Brooks) is a washed-up director who wants to make a silent movie as his big comeback picture. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) agrees to let him make the movie, but only if he gets some big name stars in the flick. So Mel, along with his two associates (Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman) set out to sign stars like Burt Reynolds, James Caan ( Read more... )

Burt Reynolds stars as a luckless scamp in the old west who gets conned into finding a shipment of lost gold for widow Angie Dickinson. He gets a team of divers together to find the gold in the wreckage of an old sunken steamboat. Once he gets his hands on the gold he then has to figure a way to smuggle it INTO the U.S. Mint ( Read more... )

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STICK (1985) ** ½

Burt Reynolds stars as Ernest “Stick” Stickley, a badass who is released from prison and almost immediately gets caught up in a money exchange gone wrong. He hides out from the bad guys by becoming a chauffeur for millionaire George Segal who loves hiring ex-cons because it makes him feel tough. Stick also falls in love with ( Read more... )

SEMI-TOUGH (1977) ** ½

Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as football players who live together with the team owner’s daughter, played by Jill Clayburgh. When Kris announces he and Jill are going to get married, it makes Burt realize that he’s in love with her too. Burt then sets out to win Jill back by any means necessary ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX* BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK (1972) **

Woody Allen wrote and directed this comedic adaptation of the famous book by Dr. David Reuben. The flick is broken up into seven chapters and because of its episodic nature; it’s patchy as all get out. Most of the good stuff is weighted towards the end, but none ( Read more... )