Friday Foster (1975)
Friday Foster was appearantly a comic that run for some years in the 70s. Friday was a photographer that went on various adventures in often glamourous environments, like the fashion industry. So I guess this film was pretty comic book accurate, but IMHO it also isn't really a typical gritty 70s Pam Grier flick like Coffy or Foxy Brown (with the more bad ass Pam characters we all love).
A slight disappointment in that sense, but there's of course still some entertaining action scenes here. Also a fun cast with Yaphet Kotto ("Colt Hawkins", you knew he had to be a bad ass PI), Eartha Kitt and Carl Weathers (who isn't even mentioned on the poster, only a few years before his later fame). You gotta love that movie poster though; As usual in the 70s there's some hilarious character descripitions - but here it's also actually spoiling Eartha Kitt's character's fate. Lol.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Always a fun revisit. This always holds up as partly a parody of Star Trek and partly a kinda silly but heartwharming space comedy adventure, and mostly due to the cast IMHO. RIP Alan Rickman, greatly missed and perfectly cast as the typical cliché of a british slightly pompous actor. Sigourney (who - dare I say it - never looked hotter than here at 50..) is of course great as usual, and the whole group of actors playing the aliens who contact the cast must've had great fun with their characters (Missi Pyle has always been a great comedienne IMO, and here she was both ridiculously adorable and funny at the same time. Then again, that whole group was adorable in some sense lol).
Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game (2022)
Damn, it feels like there's been so many biographies about various pop cultural things lately, and I have yet to watch e.g. Air, Tetris, Blackberry (that one interest me the most, as those phones seemed to be a thing mostly in the US). When it comes to pinball machines though, that's something I discovered as a kid in early 80s and always loved since.
Back when there were places filled with pinball machines and arcade games (like classic Space Invaders) I always actually preferred the former. There's something very physical (and IMHO terapeutical) about playing a pinball game. Today they're more or less totally gone (in my country at least). It was eventually sadly more profitable in restaurents and bars to replace them with pure gambling machines. Which is ironic considering the dilemma in this film. Just too bad they're very noisy, otherwise I definitely would have an 80s or 90s pinball machine in my apartment.
Anyhows, this film is about an era in the 70s when these things actually still was forbidden at commercial places on various parts in the US (which sounds ridiculous today, and I had no idea). Appearantly they were considered as random gambling machines, and often thought of as controlled by the mob. Which of course wasn't true. This Roger Sharpe fellow, an aspiring young writer who by coincidence had been fascinated and learned a lot about these machines, finally proved how that was totally at fault. It's not a fantastic movie, but quite sympathetic esp. if you're a pinball fan like me. And the Roger Sharpe's character's 'stache is overly impressing throughout the film, and even commented a couple of times. Just as a bonus.