‘Wicked, Wicked’ (1973): The only Duo-Vision movie ever released has us seeing two

Okay, enough. I swear to god if I hear my kid “lecture” me one more time about how essential it is to see The Second Coming of Christ’s director Christopher Nolan’s latest portentous snoozefest in its proper “cinematic form,” I’m going to lose it. This is the kid who’s never seen Lawrence of Arabia or… Read More ‘Wicked, Wicked’ (1973): The only Duo-Vision movie ever released has us seeing two

‘Hitler’s Madman’ & ‘Hitler’s Children’ (1943): Der Fuhrer doubleheader

In my very few moments of sobriety, when the background fuzz partly clears and gives way to bits and pieces of actual audio/visual information that land, one of the constant drones I encounter lately is that I’m no longer living in a democracy (which is curious…since we’ve always been a constitutional republic), but rather a… Read More ‘Hitler’s Madman’ & ‘Hitler’s Children’ (1943): Der Fuhrer doubleheader

‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy

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

‘The Sorcerers’ (1967): Grungy sci-fi/horror exploiter has a unique, unexpected tone

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