Rollerball (1975)

"I forget which corporation is running which city" - Some Guy, Always fear the Moon Pie. I love 1970s futurism because quite frankly the 1970s style was badass so the version of the future is just badass plus. The opening few scenes of Rollerball are fantastic. You…

{Todd}

For as long as I can remember, this movie has been on my radar as one of “those movies” I constantly came across while searching for movies on the video rental store. Over and over again, I remember stumbling about it, seeing some of the clips on the TV they had there…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The "I" in "team".

matt lynch

This could’ve so easily been another cynical ‘70s dystopian melodrama, but it also layers on this thick melancholy and insight about used up athletes. Even without all the heavy handed corporate/sociological commentary, it’s still a damn good sports film first. The matches…

Jacob Knight

In 1975 I was 16. At 16 and before, the name Jonathan was a rarity. I survived through grade school that had readers with little poems like Jonathan Blake ( who, apparently, ate too much cake ) and Jonathan Bing ( who, according to the rhyme had quite a problem with…

Jonathan White

The themes are 1984 levels of timeless, but the cynicism, the grit, the bloodlust, and the immaculate production design could only have hailed from the ‘70s. Caan was so beautiful.

anna nomaly

"The game was created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort" How very timely all of a sudden. A future world where corporate elites rule under a single soulless anthem and where comfort supersedes personal freedoms. The non-players are a pampered aristocracy…

Sofa Sinema

This feels like a quintessential, visually of a 70's film replete with a sci-fi element. Rollerskating with a little touch of the ultraviolence. As much as it feels camp there is some solid rhetoric to today's day and age albeit in a distant past foil of the future. I can't…

pirateneckbeard

the tom brady story...

fran hoepfner