We now return to Against the ‘70s, already in progress.
After taking most of 2024 off, I’m proud to announce that Against the ‘70s is back in business. New movie posts start in one week (Feb. 10), with a new one every two weeks. Every once in awhile, in between those, I’ll post something like a ttrpg review, or a new ttrpg product I’ve written, or some other project I want to tell you about. Anyway, expect a newsletter to go out with every new movie post.
However, this year, I’m going to go about things slightly differently. Films will be grouped by theme, with about four films per theme. This is still in pencil, but the plan is to start with a quartet of disaster movies, then an entire summer of animals gone amok, followed by a long-overdue look at Blaxploitation classics, and then close out the year with paranoia pictures.
At the same time, I’d like to bring back the Request Line in some form. I’m not sure how to do it yet, but you folks always requested stuff I probably never would’ve seen otherwise, and I value that, so I’ll find a way.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The only real announcement at this point is the first new movie post in (checks notes) 1 year, 8 months, 13 days??!? is just a week away. It’s a movie I’ve threatened to cover since the very beginning of Against the ‘70s, and now I’ve finally done it. I’ve also started creating a series of Monster Playsets for the Fear of the Unknown ttrpg, which you can learn about here. I’ll be dedicating some space to it, both on the blog and on the newsletter, in the future.
LINC’S LINKS
Submissions are still open for Fix Your Hearts or Die, a David Lynch-themed game jam hosted by Jellyfishlines. Here’s the current slate of entries. If you’re looking for weird or otherwise “thinking outside the box” ttrpgs, I can’t imagine a better place to go.
Over at The Reveal, Keith Phipps watched the 1977 zombie movie Shock Waves and reported back. I have this frustrating love/hate relationship with Shock Waves and I’m now realizing I’ll have to write about it (and other ‘70s zombie movies) sooner rather than later.
There’s less than a week left to get the Best of 2024 TTRPG Bundle, hosted by Rayney Day Games to support the Trans Empowerment Project. Just $10 for 78 products!
Steve Carlson’s Overdue Diligence Project has come back to life (hooray!) and while it’s a Patreon, he’s released his back archives to the public. Plus, going forward, he’s made every fifth movie review based on a public poll (and the resulting review is public as well). But I say join up for $2/month; for $3 month, he’ll take requests! (Oh shit, I need to do that. Get ready, Steve!) Since we’re all about the ‘70s, here’s his review of 1972’s Hickey & Boggs.
I really loved this post over by Brian C. Rideout over at Welcome To The Deathtrap: Atari Philosophy - Yars Revenge and Cairn 2e. The gist is looking at the similar design philosophies between the old Atari 2600 games and the recent OSR (Old School Revival) games. Not only did Brian sell me on Cairn 2e, he may have sold me on the Atari Pocket Player Pro.
NEXT TIME, ON AGAINST THE ‘70S:
