Because it had something for everyone: Pacifist hippies getting beaten up by rednecks. Semi-Indian decidedly non-pacifist kinda hot friend-of-the-hippies beating up the rednecks. Quaker teacher rape. Howard Hessman prepping for his WKRP role. And soooooo 70s: a peace-and-love … [Read more...]
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Why does David Frum hate the Founding Fathers?
‘Tokyo Story’* tops film directors’ lists
Woody Allen's list is predictably middlebrow and encrusted with aspic. Tarrantino's is worse, and as juvenile as you'd expect: The Bad News Bears? I like … [Read more...]
Whereas the correct answer is ‘Psycho’ (1960)
Saw this coming since the restoration a few years back: [Read more...]
‘And thusly I tweeped: ‘I wrote Spartacus, and #IAmAndrewBreitbart”
Carnivale screenwriter Daniel Knauf: But last night, something snapped. 12 years of silence. 12 years of cowardice. 12 years of humiliating self-censorship. 12 years of hiding what I … [Read more...]
Trailers From Hell, Volume 2: so what did I think?
Thanks to Trailers from Hell for sending me a review copy of Volume 2 of their B-movie-trailers-with-commentary. So here goes: [Read more...]
It’s true, kiddies: the Seventies were… different…
Kids in movies were either always getting killed or always killing somebody, for one thing. Slate.com: No scene from a horror movie today is as startling as the act of violence against an innocent child … [Read more...]
‘Humanoids from the Deep’ (1980) (NSFW video)
Nice background stuff on Roger Corman's Jaws ripoff, Humanoids from the Deep. More entertaining stuff on the flick from [Read more...]
Greatest number of scary moments in one film?
As well as the most parodied poster art? Cinema Retro: It's hard to believe that it was 35 years ago today that Steven Spielberg revolutionized the film industry with … [Read more...]
But just think of all the great restaurants!
That's right, ladies! You can go back to enjoying them after the doctors take the wires off your jaws... Police are investigating three separate … [Read more...]
‘If comedians can’t be offensive, who can?’
Via Spiked: So when Carr said, ‘Say what you like about these servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re going to have a fucking good Paralympic team in 2012’, guess how those present … [Read more...]