Archive for May, 2008

  • If you’re like me, you’ve often stayed awake at night worrying that the pet food you feed your no-good ungrateful cat might be made with ground up people. The Corpse...0May 30, 2008

    The Corpse Grinders (1972)

    If you’re like me, you’ve often stayed awake at night worrying that the pet food you feed your no-good ungrateful cat might be made with ground up people. The Corpse…

  • The Spensser family is one where the father (William) is a brilliant brain surgeon, one son (Henry) is really good with electronics and the other son (Jeremy) is just an...0May 30, 2008

    The Colossus of New York (1958)

    The Spensser family is one where the father (William) is a brilliant brain surgeon, one son (Henry) is really good with electronics and the other son (Jeremy) is just an…

  • Joe (Robert Walker) is a corporal in the army with a two day pass in New York City.  Instead of doing what most of us would do with it, like...0May 30, 2008

    The Clock (1945)

    Joe (Robert Walker) is a corporal in the army with a two day pass in New York City.  Instead of doing what most of us would do with it, like…

  • Holy crap, that was long! Such was my reaction after finishing this one about two days after I started it. Lumbering, plodding, crawling, rumbling, stumbling, and finally bumbling into the...0May 28, 2008

    Cleopatra (1963)

    Holy crap, that was long! Such was my reaction after finishing this one about two days after I started it. Lumbering, plodding, crawling, rumbling, stumbling, and finally bumbling into the…

  • The Man Who Came To Dinner is a story about a guy, Sheridan Whiteside, who ruins Christmas, but since this is Hollywood, he also manages to save it in the...0May 28, 2008

    The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942)

    The Man Who Came To Dinner is a story about a guy, Sheridan Whiteside, who ruins Christmas, but since this is Hollywood, he also manages to save it in the…

  • Barbara Stanwyck plays Elizabeth Lane, a gal who writes a column for a magazine extolling the virtues of a traditional home in the country and who provides recipes and babbles...0May 28, 2008

    Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

    Barbara Stanwyck plays Elizabeth Lane, a gal who writes a column for a magazine extolling the virtues of a traditional home in the country and who provides recipes and babbles…

  • Generally speaking, a movie containing not one, but two scenes of urination would not receive a good review from this viewer. Some things are best left to the imagination. This...0May 28, 2008

    A Chinese Ghost Story (1997)

    Generally speaking, a movie containing not one, but two scenes of urination would not receive a good review from this viewer. Some things are best left to the imagination. This…

  • Producer Augusto Caminito is at it again! The man who brought us the most famous Italian Indiana Jones clone ever to use a longshoreman’s hook in The Mines Of Kilimanjaro...0May 26, 2008

    Mark Of The Scorpion (1986)

    Producer Augusto Caminito is at it again! The man who brought us the most famous Italian Indiana Jones clone ever to use a longshoreman’s hook in The Mines Of Kilimanjaro…

  • Oh, to have a dad as cool as Arch Hall, Jr! When I saw that Arch Hall, Sr. had done something like produce and write this cautionary/drive-in exploitation tale about...0May 26, 2008

    The Choppers (1961)

    Oh, to have a dad as cool as Arch Hall, Jr! When I saw that Arch Hall, Sr. had done something like produce and write this cautionary/drive-in exploitation tale about…

  • Right out of the gate this movie suffers from a major handicap: the suspension of disbelief that it requires as it relates to its casting is bigger than the size...0May 26, 2008

    Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

    Right out of the gate this movie suffers from a major handicap: the suspension of disbelief that it requires as it relates to its casting is bigger than the size…

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