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THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTERS-Peter Graves narrates/hosts this Sunn Classic take on the Loch Ness Monster and various Bigfoots. Whatever they paid Graves was not enough. He keeps a straight face while discussing what is found in Bigfoot's fecal droppings. "Roots, berries, tree shoots...."

I wish they'd added: "Twinkies, Ho-Ho's, a human arm and the grille of a 1965 Dodge Dart. That last one may have been difficult to pass wouldn't you agree Doctor?"

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SPECIAL BULLETIN (1983) - This was a TV movie, originally aired on NBC in the US, designed as a fake news broadcast. Goes through two days of media coverage of a crisis regarding an act of nuclear terrorism that ultimately leads to the destruction of Charleston, SC. I thought this held up really well. Although there were a few segments that looked/were written very artificial, for the most part the sense of immediacy was well maintained and the coverage of the blast and its immediate aftermath was genuinely affecting.

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Godzilla Vs. Biollante - it takes a while to get going but once we get over the first forty minutes or so of set up it turns out to be pretty cool.

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TROOPER HOOK - Joel McCrea is so natural in westerns and in this late 50s one he's 100% authentic as a career army man. He's escorting a woman who was kidnapped by Indians back to her husband, who doesn't know she had a child while prisoner. This one takes some unusual twists and what you expect to happen in several situations often doesn't. It's always worth watching McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, two of the best.

THE TRAP - Fine, sort of modern western. Richard Widmark has to get wanted killer Lee J. Cobb to the big city jail but Cobb's thugs are hell-bent on busting him loose. Great, steamy desert setting and an unusually subdued performance from legendary scenery chewer Cobb. Tina Louise is one hell of a sexy woman in this, holy cow...

I unknowingly had an Earl Holliman double feature here, haha.

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THE BEAST (Kevin Reynolds, 1988). Best RED DAWN remake. Pretty great, actually. I watched it pan & scan, and given all that landscape & sky, it really suffers noticeably: is it available widescreen? The "Combat Classics" disc looks like it might, maybe...

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The Trap - decent old school crime thriller with a solid cast and some nice desert location photography making it a fairly 'sweaty' looking movie. Tina Louise, Lee. J. Cobb, Richard Widmark, Lorne Green, Earl Holliman. Kinda goofy towards the end (how did he take out that plan with a car?) but enjoyable regardless. Really fun job from the cast makes this one work well.

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Kinda goofy towards the end (how did he take out that plan with a car?) but enjoyable regardless.

Yeah, a cracked windshield is all the damage!?! Haha. I liked it though, very much a western in all but era. And sweaty never looked sexier than on Tina Louise, mama mia!

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Agreed. Wowza.

Last night? DEATH NURSE!

What the fuck???

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Agreed. Wowza.

Good thing we're not talking about Mike Ness or Dolph Lundgren or something here...

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I watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters a couple weeks ago.

Browsing thru Netflix last night, I saw Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade, and had to watch that.

Thoroughly enjoyed both.

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Gave in to all the bashing and watched Liz and Dick. I no longer think Sophia Coppola is the worst actress ever.

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God Bless America

Mutant Hunt

both on Netflix. Some great acting in Mutant Hunt... cyborgs with no lines, and they still stunk it up. Not that it didn't stink to begin with, but...

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House on Haunted Hill (1999): Started out well and Geoffrey Rush looks enough like Price but I'm glad he didn't mimic his voice at all. Soon the film devolves into CGI ghost nonsense no better than the Haunting remake. What a shame. Because the beginning was pretty good and set up everything nicely. We don't even see Chris Kattan get a great death scene for being an annoying prick and Jeffry Combs is barely in it.

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THE BIRDS from the UK Hitchcock box. Good stuff - also noticed I'm developing a taste for blondes in my old age. Tippi Hedren was quite the babe in her day!

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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Henry Silva's fakeass Korean Sinatra karate whoopdown remains a highlight, but Janet Leigh's schizo meet-cute dialogue is fine as well. It's great how everybody's crazy as a deck of red queens: I hope no commentary on the American political system was intended.

I wish I had a bookstore guy who'd pick out books at random and send them to me. But I guess that's what the internet is.