Jan 21
With The Legend Of The Titanic, I have now reviewed *both* Italian-made animated movies concerning the sinking of the Titanic. Which movie is worse? Hoo-boy. Well, this one got help from a foreign country… though that country was North Korea.
What happens to ordinary people after a great traumatic experience? Fragments (a.k.a. WINGED CREATURES) provides an interesting and insightful look at the various things that can happen to these people..
…well, obviously not gloom of night.
Nothing, it seems can stop our fireworks from going ahead, which over the last three years have thumbed their noses at the worst bushfires we’ve ever had and two different manifestations of a pandemic.
So of course I had to share:
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Things are pretty disastrous here, so I can only hope that life is being kinder to the rest of you. There doesn’t seem much to say beyond “Take care” and “Good luck”, so I will say both most sincerely. Here’s hoping that 2022 gives us a break—and sooner rather than later.
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(Ahem. The other thing I should say is—apologies to those people I owe emails. You know who you are. And more to the point, so do I.)
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.Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
The 1976 horror movie The Keeper is one of actor Christopher Lee’s most obscure efforts. And since it’s Canadian, it is also one of his worst.The whole extended El Santo family got breakthrough COVID infections for Christmas this year, so this update is both a week or so late and a couple reviews short. I’ll rectify the second half of that next time. For now, though:
The Lost Empire (1983), in which pretty girls with big boobs take on the mysterious final holdover of an ancient, pre-human civilization…
The Phantom Empire (1988), in which the mysterious, final holdover of an ancient, pre-human civilization is a pretty girl with big boobs…
The Stalls of Barchester (1971), in which a fusspot scholar finds the cathedral library that he’s supposed to be cataloguing a total bore until he gets to the personal papers of an extremely naughty archdeacon…
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A Warning to the Curious (1972), in which the aforementioned fusspot scholar has an altogether more direct encounter with supernatural peril.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
Dec 22
By 2002, PM Entertainment was on its last legs, at this point making movies like Con Express, where the extensive footage cribbed from other movies was in every way much better than anything they newly filmed.
I think Omega Entertainment wishes they could go back in time so that their release of the movie The Time Traveller (a.k.a. THE NEXT ONE) could then get much better DVD case art.
Shelved for 26 years (!!!) before finally getting released, the sketch comedy movie Imps has in its cast cult stars such as Linda Blair, John Carradine, Sybil Danning, Fred Willard, Marilyn Chambers, Jennifer Tilly, Jimmie Walker, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean. What it doesn’t have, unfortunately, are any laughs.I always enjoy an all-over-the-map update after one as narrowly focused as last month’s:
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959), in which the bank robbers were ready for anything except a monster…
Dracula (1973), in which I’m not sure how you arrive at the decision to cast a cowboy in decline as frigging Count Dracula, but that’s what Dan Curtis did…
Dune, Part One (2021), in which I’m insisting on that “Part One” precisely because the producers were so determined to downplay it…
Frankenstein (1973), in which Curtis does something even more radical than casting Jack Palance as Dracula: he makes a Frankenstein movie that more or less follows the book!
Halloween: Resurrection (2002), in which the second major timeline of the Halloween franchise reaches an ending even more ignominious than the first one’s…
Superchick (1973), in which she may have a secret identity, but her only superpower is polyamory…
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972), in which I saved the sleaziest for last with regard to my recent giallo binge.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
Nov 22
The British family Christmas movie Get Santa might have been passable or even very good had it not heavily aped the worst of American Christmas movies.