LIE #9: Back in the day, MAD magazine called it “Rollerbrawl”

[Sci-Fi Month at LERNER INTERNATIONAL continues, rolling into the future!]

Rollerball (1975; Norman Jewison) is perhaps the reason the fast-forward button was invented.

The sequences on the Rollerball track are perfect, and beautiful to watch as sport and cinematography work together making kinetic art—an action movie lover’s dream.

LIE #7: The Director as Metaphorical Henchman (a reassessment of Peckinpah’s “The Killer Elite”)

The Killer Elite (1975; Sam Peckinpah) is hardly flawless, but Peckinpah’s much maligned anti-spy meta-thriller is worth another look—especially if, like me, you’d seen it ages ago, didn’t quite like it then—

and then recently wondered why you didn’t like it.