A handful of new short reviews has been added to Et Al.
This update mostly concerns films that don’t quite qualify for a full review. So, we’ve got a bunch of non-sharky underwater films, a few of Roger Corman’s non-genre offerings, and a couple of proto-disaster aviation movies; as well as some purely random entries, including one film I love so much, I can only babble about it incoherently.
As opposed to, um…
#1 by Blake Matthews on May 28, 2009 - 6:45 pm
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You sold “The Man from Hong Kong” to me, Lyz. I remember seeing the first five minutes of Atlas and thinking that it was going to be a comedy. Since it was already like 1 a.m. at the time, I decided to skip it and go to sleep.
#2 by lyzard on May 28, 2009 - 6:51 pm
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Then my work here is done. 🙂
#3 by Joshua on May 28, 2009 - 8:40 pm
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“Fosters…yecchh!”
Wait, isn’t “Fosters” Australian for “beer”? Don’t tell me that the TV lied to me!
#4 by lyzard on May 28, 2009 - 9:03 pm
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Fosters: it’s Australian for “disgusting swill that we flog to ignorant furriners while rubbing our hands together and chuckling evilly”.
#5 by Ed on May 28, 2009 - 9:04 pm
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Hmm, never knew Into the Blue was a remake of The Deep. The More You Know, eh?
#6 by JessicaR on May 28, 2009 - 9:15 pm
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Lyz, because I hope to be a well traveled alchoolic what are your picks for good local brews? And I will be tracking down a copy of The Man From Hong Kong, I watched the trailer on YouTube and it left me grinning from ear to ear.
#7 by lyzard on May 28, 2009 - 9:48 pm
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I don’t know that I’m enough of a beer-o-phile to give you an informative answer to that, Jess; I’m more of a wine-drinker. (I know, I know – and she calls herself an Australian!) I also tend to favour light-bodied beers, which doesn’t suit everyone. In that capacity there’s a boutique beer from the Newcastle area called Bluetongue that I quite like (and not just because it has lizards all over the label, honest), and Cascade Lager, from Tasmania. My brother favours the James Squire brews, and another Tasmanian-sourced one, Boag’s St George. But honestly, there are so many of them, and so many different approaches – you’ll just have to try them all for yourself. 🙂
#8 by JessicaR on May 28, 2009 - 11:13 pm
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Excellent. I will then be drunk enough for the locals to sell me over priced cans of “drop bear” repellent.
#9 by lyzard on May 29, 2009 - 12:05 am
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While they rub their hands together and chuckle evilly.
#10 by Chad R. on May 29, 2009 - 12:14 am
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Hey, you can’t afford NOT to protect yourself from drop bears!
#11 by Thomas on May 29, 2009 - 4:46 am
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The real one to watch-out for is the Flabbit.
#12 by The Rev. D.D. on June 3, 2009 - 10:25 am
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The review for The Man from Hong Kong….I can’t tell if that was genius or madness. Probably both, considering the writer. Either way, it was indeed good for me too. I liked seeing your stream of consciousness on a movie like that. I imagine we won’t see anything like that for quite some time (if ever) but it had me rolling.
I think I wanna see the movie itself, even if I won’t get some of those references, seeing as how I’ve never been to your continent.
RE: Devil Winds–if you want demonic tornadoes, there’s always Tornado: Nature Unleashed starring Future War‘s Daniel Bernhardt.