THE BIG EASY (1986) – An unjustly neglected film starring the one and only Dennis Quaid, who should have been made the new Indiana Jones after The Last Crusade in 1989. The Big Easy is easily one of the most underrated films of the 1980s.
Think of The Big Easy as Cajun-blackened Film Noir, which, of course, makes it colorful and upbeat Film Noir with kickass music. Set in New Orleans (known as the Big Easy for you overseas readers) this hardboiled mystery features Assistant DA Anne Osborne (Ellen Barkin) clashing, bickering, flirting with and falling for Quaid as Lt Remy McSwain. Remy is investigating Wiseguy murders that hint at an impending gangster war while Anne is probing police corruption. Continue reading
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COUNTLESS times I raised new and old instances demonstrating that the Democrat and Republican parties are nothing but rival gangs of white-collar criminals running the country like a Mafia bust-out scheme. Virtually every member of Congress leaves office having accumulated enormous wealth or obtaining VERY lucrative employment in industries they exercised legislative authority over, giving every appearance of being rewarded for services rendered while in political office. 
In the past several years, despite the never-ending FLOOD of exposed crimes and corruption by other political figures, the ONE figure who has been targeted over and over and constantly lied about has been the outsider Donald Trump. The white-collar criminals of the Democrat and Republican parties – with sadly few exceptions – have participated in playing gatekeepers regarding who may or may not enter “their turf.” 
Yesterday’s blog post about the dystopian film Golem (1980) called to mind a pair of Robert Ludlum’s espionage novels from the 1970s. Both of them are spy thrillers but reflected Ludlum’s distrust of both left-wing and right-wing fanatics. Sadly, they also predicted a lot of what citizens around the world face right here in 2023. It’s not just science fiction that can prove virtually prophetic. 
GOLEM (1980) – This science fiction film set in a post-World War Three dictatorship was made in Poland by director Piotr Szulkin and starred Marek Walczewski & Krystyna Janda. It uses the concept of a Golem as an allegory for the creation of artificial humans and examines the motives of those who would do the creating. 
When we first meet Pernat, who has a kind of “Phil Collins in Buster” look, he is being interrogated about a murder committed in his apartment block. We observe how easily subdued and fairly lacking in intelligence he is, but ultimately the authorities release him because they don’t have enough evidence and he is just one of the suspects. 
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