Archive for December, 2009

  • I had always suspected that those snobby British goons that tried to stifle all our basic human rights by laying a big tax on our imported tea were defeated through...2December 28, 2009

    Johnny Tremain (1957)

    I had always suspected that those snobby British goons that tried to stifle all our basic human rights by laying a big tax on our imported tea were defeated through…

  • As she did in Rebecca, Joan Fontaine plays an outsider who moves into a fancy house which harbors a dark secret and even more importantly, a rich stud (Orson Welles)...0December 27, 2009

    Jane Eyre (1944)

    As she did in Rebecca, Joan Fontaine plays an outsider who moves into a fancy house which harbors a dark secret and even more importantly, a rich stud (Orson Welles)…

  • Uh, so where the magic beans? If I’m watching a movie called Jack the Giant Killer, then I have to believe that somewhere along the way, I’m going to see...0December 26, 2009

    Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

    Uh, so where the magic beans? If I’m watching a movie called Jack the Giant Killer, then I have to believe that somewhere along the way, I’m going to see…

  • Fee, fi, fo, fum! I smell the stench of another shabby Barry Mahon kiddie picture! This is the other movie on the DVD from Something Weird that features The Wonderful...0December 25, 2009

    Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)

    Fee, fi, fo, fum! I smell the stench of another shabby Barry Mahon kiddie picture! This is the other movie on the DVD from Something Weird that features The Wonderful…

  • The first time was for his ancient Indian burial ground! The second time was for his wife’s miscarriage! Now, Thunder is back for his biggest, most destructive revenge mission of...0December 18, 2009

    Thunder III (1988)

    The first time was for his ancient Indian burial ground! The second time was for his wife’s miscarriage! Now, Thunder is back for his biggest, most destructive revenge mission of…

  • When we last saw Thunder, he was shooting arrows into cops, blowing up cars with a bazooka, and demolishing a bank and the police station in his home town with...0December 18, 2009

    Thunder II (1987)

    When we last saw Thunder, he was shooting arrows into cops, blowing up cars with a bazooka, and demolishing a bank and the police station in his home town with…

  • What Fabrizio De Angelis was able to accomplish with Thunder (Thunder Warrior in the U.S.) as a first time director is undoubtedly not unprecedented. I’m sure there’s several good examples...0December 18, 2009

    Thunder (1983)

    What Fabrizio De Angelis was able to accomplish with Thunder (Thunder Warrior in the U.S.) as a first time director is undoubtedly not unprecedented. I’m sure there’s several good examples…

  • Riccardo Freda was the director who started I vampiri, but it was cameraman and future legendary director Mario Bava who finished it after Freda got huffy and quit the movie...0December 13, 2009

    I vampiri (1956)

    Riccardo Freda was the director who started I vampiri, but it was cameraman and future legendary director Mario Bava who finished it after Freda got huffy and quit the movie…

  • The year is the far flung future of 1973. It’s a bizarre future where people don’t have muttonchop sideburns, drive AMC Gremlins or say stuff like “you dig.” In fact,...0December 13, 2009

    It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

    The year is the far flung future of 1973. It’s a bizarre future where people don’t have muttonchop sideburns, drive AMC Gremlins or say stuff like “you dig.” In fact,…

  • Having already run through this premise with Charles Laughton in 1933′s Island Of Lost Souls and a bunch of nobodies in 1959′s Blood Creature, I wasn’t too excited at the...0December 13, 2009

    The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

    Having already run through this premise with Charles Laughton in 1933′s Island Of Lost Souls and a bunch of nobodies in 1959′s Blood Creature, I wasn’t too excited at the…

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