It’s still Christmas time around the Mavis household (passed-out relatives under the tree only disappear when the tree does), so in an effort to find different holiday-related movie fare (because I swear to god if I see the outrageously overrated A Christmas Story one more goddamn time…), I happened upon the tight, suspenseful chamber piece… Read More ‘Cash on Demand’ (1962): Trim little Hammer outing is almost-great
So…while we’re all waiting for Dick Van Dyke to kick off (please…you think anyone’s going to care the day after he hits 100?), there’s currently not much else to do in the popular culture than celebrate the upcoming Christmas holiday. And what’s the best way to do that? Why, with early 70s German soft-core porn,… Read More ‘Schoolgirl Report #1: What Parents Don’t Think Is Possible’ (1970): What do schoolgirls want this holiday season?
Ahhhhh…the falling leaves. The soft, orangey twilight at day’s dimming. The pumpkins. The apple cider. The grown adults decorating their houses and lawns with plastic skeletons and ghosts and asking you, apparently the only neighbor left who likes to keep to himself, what you think of it with their idiotic grins, pissing themselves because they’re… Read More ‘Lisa and the Devil’ & ‘The House of Exorcism’ (1973/1975): Bava’s arty failure gets exploitation makeover
Next Tuesday is the 70th anniversary of the death of actor James Dean (Google him)…which is probably going to elicit hardly a peep on social media, where such trivia are now noted by posters desperately looking for hits, facilitating amateur “comedian commentators” to make insufferably lame jokes, and where certifiably insane advocates—for every cause and… Read More ‘September 30th, 1955′ (1977): The Waltons’ Richard Thomas obsesses over James Dean
Oh okay so now, supposedly, we’re in big trouble, not only politically but economically? But four years of a shadow government no one elected…and not a peep from the corrupt media that was helping to hide it? Got it.
Reduced, these past few weeks, to basically laying flat on my back (they took out 37 feet of my guts—I’m basically a soda fountain now), there hasn’t been much I can do but watch TV and movies. And certainly patterns of comfort TV-watching manifested themselves fairly quickly, including hours and hours of 70s TV (Emergency!,… Read More ‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy
Okay so wait…so it’s news that Katy Perry rode some giant cock-shaped thing just to be more famous? Doesn’t she do that every day? And isn’t the fact that Gayle King rode anything cock-shaped the real story here? God I can’t keep it all straight.
“I don’t care if you have one arm, one leg….or six eyes!” An inspiring true-life sports tale that we might have watched as a team when my mates and I battled for state baseball titles in the early ’90s. But we never faced adversity like softballer Katelyn Pavey.
So, wait: Lindbergh willingly sacrificed his kid to Nobel Prize-winning biologist Alexis Carrel in some Abrahamic gesture to provide Carrel a body for eugenics experimentation that went wrong…and then covered it up? That promotion for a new whack-job book conspiracy theory came over my news feed a while back, and sucker though I am for… Read More ‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Deliciously awful Anthony Hopkins takes home the Emmy
I’ve been saying this for over a week now: if they only had Chuck Heston, George Kennedy, and Marjoe Gortner still in town, that goddamn fire would be out already.
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