The presence of the dancing (and singing) Christopher Walken almost – but not quite – makes the Golan-Globus produced family movie Puss In Boots worth slogging through.
Archive for January, 2019
I give it the boot
Jan 27
With the skill of the legendary director Isaac Florentine, Special Forces overcomes its limitations, succeeding more than it stumbles.
Doesn’t build up to much
Jan 8
The makers of The Carpenter managed to get Wings Hauser in the title role, but like a carpenter without his tool belt, Hauser had little to work with.
Holiday stuff is still technically relevant until Sunday. Or if that doesn’t convince you, just pretend I’m Russian Orthodox…
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), in which an interesting experiment in franchise theory goes careening off the rails…
Horror Express (1972), in which what sounds like an Agatha Christie riff is actually a fair approximation of “Who Goes There?”…
Murder by the Clock (1931), in which the “clock,” for the record, is the methodical operation of the villainess’s mind…
and…
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), in which I still don’t entirely believe what I saw.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.