A Movie A Week: THE MACKINTOSH MAN (1973) Only Mackintosh can save them now… and Mackintosh is dead!

Jun 30, 2009

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next installment of A Movie A Week. [For those who new to the column, A Movie A Week is just that, a dedicated way for me explore vintage cinema every week. I’ll review a movie every Monday and each one will be connected to the one before it via a common thread, either an actor, director, writer, producer or some other crew member. Each film, pulled from my DVD shelf or recorded on the home DVR (I heart TCM) will be one I haven’t seen.] Welcome one and all to today’s installment of A Movie A Week. We follow writer Walter Hill over from last week’s Sam Peckinpah crime flick THE GETAWAY. I’m a little late with this due to a few factors, the main ones being the 4 hours I spent with the /film guys, taking part in their podcast and my time-sucking addiction to a site called flickchart.com But... [read full story]