Hooper (1978)
Hooper is a fan favorite film meant almost exclusively for fans of Burt Reynolds and the down-home country boy humor he was known for in the late 1970s. Most of the films he did...
Tagged: Hal Needham
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
I’m not sure what it is about Hal Needham that he can make a couple of fun and entertaining films like The Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit, and yet completely lose his mind when trying to...
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
A huge success at the time of its release (only Star Wars made more money in 1977), Smokey and the Bandit was the right movie at the right time, riding the wave of Burt Reynolds’ popularity, rascally...
The Cannonball Run (1981)
The Cannonball Run isn’t a great film traditionally. It’s loose, chaotic, silly, and filled with jokes and stereotypes that haven’t aged well. Critics were right to call it tasteless, mindless, sexist, racist, antisemitic, and...