The B-Masters Cabal
Back from the Grave and Ready to Party!Brain and brain, what is brain?
Posted onAugust 31, 2013
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As it turns out, a balloon on wires with stuck-on googly eyes. Bet they didn’t tell you that in anatomy class..
THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1957)
In which a “recognised nuclear scientist” is taken over by a giant transparent floating space brain, and immediately starts making plans for world domination. He also turns into a ravening sex-maniac.
Hmm…is it just me, or is a pattern starting to emerge in the reviews I’m resurrecting?
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!Sex with androids. Have I got your attention?
Posted onAugust 27, 2013
John Malkovich and Ann Magnuson star in Making Mr. Right, a very pleasant comedy that proposes that the best man for a woman may not always be made of flesh and blood.
Behold– HUBRISFEST!
Posted onAugust 26, 2013With 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting passing the ten-year milestone back in July, I decided to do something extra-stupid to celebrate. I went and took on three of the most thoroughly discussed and dissected properties in all of science fiction:
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), in which the Doctor is an idiot, the Daleks are pushovers, and only the juvenilized Susan seems truly qualified to go adventuring through the most dangerous regions of time and space…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), in which motion is famously the thing that’s most sorely lacking…
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Star Wars (1977), in which the Force– the energy field created by Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, James Earl Jones, and a whole lot of immensely talented guys named “John”– truly was with George Lucas.
Also, I’ve got some less overreaching reviews, too:
Carnival Magic (1981), in which a tiger-tamer ain’t nothing next to a psychic with a talking chimp…
Pacific Rim (2013), in which HUGE FREAKING ROBOTS punch HUGE FREAKING MONSTERS in the face for two hours…
Phantasm (1979), in which funeral parlors are even creepier than you realized…
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Wake in Fright (1971), in which Outback mining towns make for a truly unforgettable Christmas vacation.
Surfin’ USA. And Portugal. And Morocco. And India. And…
Posted onAugust 17, 2013
The success of the 1966 surfing documentary The Endless Summer inspired a number of imitators, Follow Me being one of them. Does it find the perfect wave, or does it wipe out? Read the review to find out the answer.
Moonie loonies
Posted onAugust 7, 2013
As you know, most Canadian movies are horrifying for all the wrong reasons. However, the Canadian movie Ticket To Heaven is a scary yet well-crafted exercise, revealing how manipulative many religious cults are and that YOU could become a victim to one of them.