Category: The Warriors

  • “The Warriors” vs “The Warriors”

    “You warriors are good. Real good” -Masai“The best.” -Swan There’s a great moment toward the end of the film “The Warriors” in which two of the protagonists, Swan and Mercy are on a train with some of the other Warriors. They are exhausted, covered in sweat; Swan has visible cuts and bruises from all the…

  • Finished “The Warriors”/What I am Reading

    I just finished Sol Yurick’s “The Warriors” this week, and it was an interesting ride. I’ll probably be doing a book vs. film comparison on that one, since I love the movie, and, despite the fact that the book is literally mentioned in the credits, have never bothered with it until now. The book included…

  • “Burnt Offerings”/”The Warriors”/Book vs Film/What I am Reading

    Happy Bloomsday, nerds. Earlier this year, I read “Burnt Offerings”, a book which was the basis for the 1976 film staring Karen Black and Oliver Reed. That movie scared the living shit out of me as a child; particularly a sequence with a hearse and its driver, who’s rictus grin is burned not only into…