‘Casual Sex?’ (1988): When hooking up was fun!
What’s wrong with men? Can’t they commit? Is sex all they want? For your answer, just ask the Diceman.
‘The Cat and the Canary’ (1939) & ‘The Ghost Breakers’ (1940): A spooky Bob Hope double feature
Well…after being tricked (and certainly not treated) by one of my rotten kids into enduring the new Halloween Kills nightmare (woefully, even comically inept…and no, I don’t find Jamie Lee “Witchie Poo” Curtis hot anymore), it was a dire necessity for my autumnal equilibrium to scare up some old-timey nostalgic Halloween fare.
‘The Devil’s Men’ (1976) & ‘Terror’ (1978): Acceptable fun for a Saturday night
Well, it’s that time of the year again…no, the anti-vaxx gulags aren’t quite ready yet. No, we’re talking about Halloween, so here at the darkened Movies & Drinks offices (the light bill check is in the mail, people. Jesus!), when the debt collectors quit pounding on the doors and the cleaners finally throw up their… Read More ‘The Devil’s Men’ (1976) & ‘Terror’ (1978): Acceptable fun for a Saturday night
‘MacGruber’ (2010): Is adaptation of a faux adaptation a modern cult classic?
He’s crude and he’s rude, and he’s another in a long line of Saturday Night Live underachievers at the big-screen box office. Now, you can catch MacGruber again on home video! Just don’t forget the celery…
‘The Beasts are On the Streets’ (1978): A family-friendly disaster epic from Hanna-Barbera
Well…if everything else seems to be a disaster right now, it couldn’t hurt to watch some disaster flicks, now could it?
‘The Teacher’ (1974): It’s cheap grindhouse filler…but we miss it
Oh man…I miss BCI Eclipse releases like Welcome to the Grindhouse Double Feature, like I miss the drive-ins that showed cool trash like The Teacher and Pick-Up years and years ago.
‘Pick-Up’ (1975): Trash hippie hokum is good enough for the grindhouse
Oh man…I miss BCI Eclipse releases like Welcome to the Grindhouse Double Feature, like I miss the drive-ins that showed cool trash like The Teacher and Pick-Up years and years ago.
‘Queen Bee’ (1955): Does this lurid melodrama reflect Joan Crawford’s real-life persona?
“It makes me terribly cross when people oppose me.”Amen, Joan. Amen.
‘Evel Knievel’ (1971): Whatever happened to fearless America?
“Because it is part of the tradition and heritage of this country that the words ‘fear’ and ‘impossible’ do not exist.”
‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1978): Paranoid horror remake a treat for any era
Yes, he’s a pod that didn’t correctly transform. Look, he has to be, right? See—what else could explain that stumbling gait, that vacant, blank stare, that mouth agape, those sudden fits of crankiness inbetween the rather startling incoherence. Of course he’s a damaged pod.
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