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FILMS – AUGUST 2018

Posted by on August 31, 2018 No comments

(Salkow 1940) The Lone Wolf Strikes
(Hellings 1985) Doc­tor Who: Ep.631 ― The Mark of Rani, Part 1
(Hellings 1985) Doc­tor Who: Ep.632 ― The Mark of Rani, Part 2
(Hon­da 1966) Franken­stein Con­quers the World [aka Franken­stein vs. Baragon]
(Tenold 2018) Brandon’s Cult Movie Reviews: Franken­stein Con­quers the World
(Bridge 2015) How the Uni­verse Works: Ep.28 ― Mon­ster Black Hole
(Mof­fatt 1985) Doc­tor Who: Ep.633 ― The Two Doc­tors, Part 1
(Mof­fatt 1985) Doc­tor Who: Ep.634 ― The Two Doc­tors, Part 2
(Mof­fatt 1985) Doc­tor Who: Ep.635 ― The Two Doc­tors, Part 3
(Gian­co­la 1994) Time Chasers [Mys­tery Sci­ence The­atre Version]
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(Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Posted by on August 16, 2018 No comments

18-08-16 VIEW (Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner pic 1There is more to this bleak sto­ry of a young man in a juve­nile deten­tion facil­i­ty than just anoth­er bit of “social real­ism” or the usu­al for­mu­la of redemp­tion-through-sport. There are lay­ers and lay­ers in Alan Sil­li­toe’s sto­ry, and Ralph Richard­son’s film gets many of them across. It’s about being con­trolled, being used, being forced to play roles for oth­ers, and final­ly rebelling against it in a way that makes some sense. The actors clear­ly under­stood these sub­tleties, and avoid­ed clichés in inter­pret­ing the roles. Tom Court­ney became a star on the strength of this per­for­mance. Michael Red­grave, by then a ven­er­a­ble icon, worked every scene with him in del­i­cate bal­ance. This film still has a high rep­u­ta­tion in the British cin­e­ma, and just­ly so.

18-08-16 VIEW(Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner pic 2

18-08-16 VIEW(Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner pic 3

18-08-16 VIEW(Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner pic 4

18-08-16 VIEW(Richardson 1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner pic 5

FILMS – JULY 2018

Posted by on July 31, 2018 No comments

(Nyby 1951) The Thing [aka The Thing From Anoth­er World]
(Craven 1982) Swamp Thing
(Tenold 2018) Bran­don’s Cult Movie Reviews: Swamp Thing
(Warn­er 2012) How the Uni­verse Works: Ep.14 ― Comets: Frozen Wanderers
(Har­ris 2012) How the Uni­verse Works: Ep.15 ― Aster­oids: Worlds That Nev­er Were
(Har­ris 2012) How the Uni­verse Works: Ep.16 ― Birth of the Earth
(Ben­ner 1977) Outrageous!
(Mof­fatt 1984) Doc­tor Who: Ep.625 ― The Twin Dele­ma, Part 3
(Mof­fatt 1984) Doc­tor Who: Ep.626 ― The Twin Dele­ma, Part 4
(Borzage 1928) The Riv­er [sur­viv­ing scenes]
(Thiele 1943) Tarzan’s Desert Mystery
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FILMS – JUNE 2018

Posted by on June 30, 2018 No comments

(Almod­ó­var 1983) What Have I Done to Deserve This? [¿Qué he hecho yo para mere­cer esto!!]
(Five­son 1979) The Clonus Hor­ror [Mys­tery Sci­ence The­atre version]
(Oswald 1964) The Out­er Lim­its: Ep.22 ― Spec­i­men: Unknown
(Hitch­cock 1940) For­eign Correspondent
(Dante 2013) Trail­ers from Hell: Joe Dante on Earth vs. the Fly­ing Saucers
(Sears 1956) Earth vs. the Fly­ing Saucers
(Wilder 1956) Wit­ness for the Prosecution
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(Mankiewitz 1959) Suddenly, Last Summer

Posted by on June 12, 2018 No comments

18-06-30 VIEW (Mankiewitz 1959) Suddenly, Last SummerIt’s fas­ci­nat­ing to see the twist­ing and turn­ing in this film adap­ta­tion of Ten­nessee Williams’ play. In the 1950’s, Amer­i­can film was sub­ject to gov­ern­ment cen­sor­ship under the noto­ri­ous Hays Act, and to even more dis­gust­ing self-imposed cen­sor­ship under the stu­dios’ “vol­un­tary code”. “It was like writ­ing for Prav­da,” said Gore Vidal, who script­ed the film. In a won­der­ful doc­u­men­tary called The Cel­lu­loid Clos­et, he describes his repeat­ed meet­ings with a Jesuit priest who, appar­ent­ly, had life-and-death pow­ers over any film pro­duc­tion. Appar­ent­ly, the very con­cept of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty could not be allowed to appear on film. Since this was the cen­tral ele­ment of the plot, the result is a strange, almost hal­lu­ci­na­to­ry atmos­phere in which char­ac­ters talk for ten minute stretch­es of oblique hints and enig­mat­ic gri­maces, mere­ly to avoid men­tion­ing that an absent char­ac­ter (who is dead) was gay! All this riga­ma­role is being done by Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor dur­ing the peri­od when she was a bril­liant actress, Kather­ine Hep­burn (who was always a bril­liant actress), and Mont­gomery Clift. Clift was also a gift­ed actor, but at the time, he was recov­er­ing from a car acci­dent that had dis­fig­ured his face, and was sat­u­rat­ed with pain killers. He was also a clos­et­ed gay, him­self. The scenes when all three of them are togeth­er are so filled with repres­sion and ten­sion that they count among the most bizarre and intense in film his­to­ry. A view­er who is under twen­ty-five will prob­a­bly find the whole thing incom­pre­hen­si­ble. “What the hell are these peo­ple talk­ing about, or more pre­cise­ly, why are they not talk­ing about it, what is every­body upset about it, and what on earth is going on?” was the response of one younger friend of mine. The whole thing was so alien to his expe­ri­ence and sen­si­bil­i­ties that he could make no sense of it. And I couldn’t have explained it with­out under­tak­ing a five hour dis­course on the trans­for­ma­tions in North Amer­i­can soci­ety in the lasty fifty years.

FILMS – MAY 2018

Posted by on May 31, 2018 No comments

(Yea­worth 1958) The Blob
(Cross­land 2010) Mur­doch Mys­ter­ies: Ep.30 ― Rich Boy, Poor Boy
(Meza-León 2017) Rick and Morty: Ep.30 ― The ABC’s of Beth
(Dein 1960) The Leech Woman [Mys­tery Sci­ence The­atre version]
(May 1976) Mikey and Nicky
(Berke 1958) The Lost Missile
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FILMS – APRIL 2018

Posted by on April 30, 2018 No comments

(Spiel­berg 1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark
(Wilder 1954) Killers from Space
(Trelfer 2017) Dark Cor­ners Review: (38) Killers from Space
(Reit­man 1984) Ghostbusters
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FILMS – MARCH 2018

Posted by on March 31, 2018 No comments

(Berke­ley 1939) They Made Me a Criminal
(Mar­shall 1961) The Phan­tom Plan­et [Mys­tery Sci­ence The­atre version]
(Dante 2013) Trail­ers from Hell: Joe Dante on Giant from the Unknown
(Cun­ha 1958) Giant from the Unknown
(Trelfer 2017) Dark Cor­ners Review: (17) Giant from the Unknown
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FILMS – FEBRUARY 2018

Posted by on February 28, 2018 No comments

(Hitch­cock 1928) Champagne
(Graves 2014) Game of Thrones: Ep.38 ― The Moun­tain and the Viper
(Duf­fer 2016) Stranger Things: Ep.7 ― The Bathtub
(Dante 2014) Trail­ers from Hell: Joe Dante on Mr. Arkadin
(Welles 1955) Mr. Arkadin
(Duf­fer 2016) Stranger Things: Ep.8 ― The Upside Down
(Brooks 1974) Young Frankenstein
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FILMS – JANUARY 2018

Posted by on January 31, 2018 No comments

(Pal 1960) The Time Machine
(Taran­ti­no 2012) The Uni­verse: Ep.72 ― How Big, How Far, How Fast
(Trelfer 2017) Undead 32: Mer­ry Christ­mas ― Basi­cal­ly a Lot of Mind­less Chatter
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