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
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.
Not “horrific” by today’s standards…but acceptably frightening and strange.
Considering it’s now official that we live in a Third World banana republic (when the illegitimate ruling junta doesn’t even bother to cover its tracks when trying to zap its chief political opponent, the “golden days” of the American republic are well and truly over), can you blame anyone who’s looking for a little escapism?… Read More ‘Beach Party’ (1963): Sun, music & surf for your summer blues
Flipping through some possible DVD choices on a typically fetid, humid summer night here in the Great American Middle West, I popped in director Frank Tashlin’s spy spoof Caprice from 1967 (I needed something with snow in it), starring the one and only Doris Day.
So I see the media is back to predicting the demise of movies, now that new incarnations of Mad Max and Garfield are flopping, and Ken-doll dreamboat, Ryan “My Eyes are Set So Close Together I Can’t Use Binoculars” Gosling, can’t draw flies with his ludicrously unnecessary The Fall Guy reboot. One of the reasons… Read More ‘The Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection’: Troy Donahue mingles with the ladies in four ’60s romances
We’ve had a week of dark, cool, rainy fall weather here in the Great American Midwest, a seasonal siren call that compels me, on an irresistible genetic level, to watch a few dark, cool, rainy 60s British movies. Add in the Halloween spirit that gets an early start around these parts (quite simply: the Midwest… Read More ‘The Sorcerers’ (1967): Grungy sci-fi/horror exploiter has a unique, unexpected tone
It’s springtime here at the Movies & Drinks world headquarters, and that means we’re getting ready to say goodbye to our “Seven Sisters” interns who have been scurrying around here since January, typing up reviews, emptying ashtrays, keeping filing cabinets fully stocked with the owners’ secret libations of choice…only to pour said soused owners into… Read More Joe Sarno’s Inga Collection: Nobody under 18 will be admitted to this DVD collection
Purim peplum. And yeah, I know it’s late, and yes, I know it has nothing to do with Easter, but neither does The Ten Commandments and you don’t see that stopping ABC, now do you.
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