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Nightbirds - interesting drama from Milligan with some doses of kink and some good performances. Not surprisingly it's pretty stagey but it's cool to finally see this.
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THE MAN WITH A CLOAK - Neat period gothic mystery about a young woman who comes to America from France to meet her boyfriend's father. She suspects his household help are trying to speed along his demise so they can get their hands on his money. A mysterious man who spends a lot of time in the neighborhood tavern takes an interest in her and fears she's in danger. Barbara Stanwyck is typically great as the money hungry servant, and Joseph Cotton is the guardian angel. There's a cool twist at the end where we learn who Cotton really is - though I guessed it pretty early on, it wasn't hard.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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I finished the Logan's Run complete series recently. The camp factor wasn't as high as I'd hoped for so at times I had to soldier through on the strength of my fetish for crummy vintage sci-fi. The first episode is an abridged retelling of the movie complete with recycled footage and the rest of the series features Logan and buddies driving around the California countryside in a solar powered lowrider. The highlight of the series was the episode that featured Satan worshiping ghosts. Robert Urich's widow plays Jessica. She's no Jenny Agutter, but she did pose for Playboy, so some side research may enhance your enjoyment of the show.Comment
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"Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"
Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.Comment
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I watched the UK blu-ray of Shame last night, and it reminded me more of a Brett Easton Ellis novel than any of the actual adaptations.Comment
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The "Le Mer" betrayal montage at the end is show-offy and oddly triumphal, but pretty great. LeCarre's complicated narratives turned reading the novel into intelligence work; this is gloriously simplified, like a first-rate post-mortem debriefing, and almost all the deductive pleasures of the film are visual. Bill Roach, the kid that Prideaux schoolmasters, becomes beautifully central: round face and specs, he's a proto-Smiley; like Prideaux, he's a loner who responds to friendship, and Prideaux's "bloody join in" feels like a betrayal; and most importantly, he's a good watcher. Just what this movie needs.Comment
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Despite the above, I do not condone pantsing of corpses.Comment
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THE GREY - thought this was very good for the most part. It's basically a backwoods slasher with a pack of wolves as the killers instead of inbred hillbillies. It does tend to the maudlin and philosophical in some of the death scenes though. Still well worth checking out, great performance from Liam Neeson.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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Playback - starts off with a fairly intense murder scene and goes down hill very quickly from there. Despite a few good kills and a cameo from Mark Metcalf (who sadly doesn't froth at the mouth or yell at anyone), I wasn't all that impressed.
Plot Of Fear - much better. Eli Wallach is rad. Tom Skerrit is also kinda rad but not as rad as Eli Wallach or the theme song. Lots of fun. Crazy porno cartoons, nudity, some Giallo-esque kills. Lots of style and nonsense. Hooray!Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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Plot of Fear is cool. I LOVE that theme. I "reviewed" it you know...Is the cartoon a real cartoon or made for the movie?Comment
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No idea and I didn't see any reference to it in the credits, though I don't really read Italian. No mention of it on the imdb either - I really have no idea where it came from.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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EL CONDOR - This is a weird one. For a good 2/3 of the film it's a fairly lighthearted action story with Van Cleef and Jim Brown as con men trying to steal a bunch of gold bars from an impreganable fortress. Near the end it gets very serious as one of them commits a cold-blooded murder of an ally, and then ends on a really down note. They have a good chemistry and there's a lot of action but it sorta left a sour taste overall.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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No Telling (Larry Fessenden, 1991). Mad scientist and wife move to country; she wants to make babies, he's a vivisectionist. I was hoping for Charles Dexter Ward meets Straw Dogs, but not quite. Low-budget, little moments, small effects: it's sustainable. I really dug the big horror reveal moment, even if no animals were harmed. Todd, you and Larry Fessenden should go for beers.Comment
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possible SPOILERS
Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - "Gimme some duct tape, and some pizza!" Fake Depp alert, very creepy. Spanish Fly freakout sequence is tops.
Barry Lyndon - If you are Ryan O'Neal, you will always make the wrong decision, no matter how right it may seem at the time.
Rampart - Woody Harrelson stars as Harvey Keitel in The Bad Lieutenant In L.A., only this time there's a lot less crack (of either kind). Cop is a total shit and uses up all of his favors and friends in a downward spiral of hate. James Ellroy worked on the script, but it seems to be missing his usual awesome third act kick in the pants, so it is a little disappointing. I liked "Street Kings" and even "Dark Blue" better than this.Comment
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Marvel Anime: IRON MAN
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