It’s been a few years since I watched it, but I remember The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T dealing a lot with the aftermath and fallout (so to speak) of WWII. I think Bart’s mom was a war widow, and the friendly plumber, Mr. Zabladowski (who bore a strong resemblance to the rural mail carrier we had when I was a kid) seemed…
Needs more Killface. “Welcome to you’re DOOM”
About a week ago I found a mint condition DVD of FGF, which I bought for a dollar. A few nights later I watched it for the first time ever. I will now copy and paste my entire review of that movie, which I posted on another site, verbatim:
For the longest time, I thought Aubrey Plaza would forever be known only as the place where JFK was shot.
“Shakes The Clown” is a goddam cinematic masterpiece and I will glare fiercely at anybody who says different.
Where I live, there isn't a Trader Trader Joe's within a hundred miles at least.
I spent all damn day running around town looking for oatmeal. Winter is coming, and I want my oatmeal! This is the latest weird shortage I’ve seen locally, oatmeal and cornbread mix. I think I may have bought the last two boxes of Quaker’s in town, and I finally found a few bags of generic at Dollar Tree.
This would have been cool about 40 years ago when Carrie White was supposed to front the (pre-Ghostface) band as “Carrie and the Slashers”.
They have to grow up fast in Alaska. I would assume that by five years of age Sarah Palin would have already killed and skinned at least one bear.
“Pig” is not even “Nicholas Cage as Fred Ziffle as John Wick”. Hard as this is to imagine, it’s much much better than even that, and yes, everyone should see it.
John Larroquette was also the narrator in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Nick Cage as John Wick as Fred Ziffle.
If you want to see a truly weird, mostly funny, and absolutely, totally batshit alternative history movie, I heartily recommend “FDR, American Badass!” I had never heard of it, discovered it totally by accident, and laughed my ass off. It isn’t prestige cinema or anything, but it’s a fine way to pass an hour and a…
I live about 100 miles east of St. Louis, and I used to listen to a St. Louis morning radio show back in the late 80's (I had a big old FM antenna on a 60 ft tower in those days) so I had heard mention of Fair St Louis, and a little bit about how weird the VP stuff used to be, but I’m not surprised that most of the…
I just glanced at the headline and read it as “Jerry Lewis” and immediately my head exploded.
I think the ending to the original “Ocean’s Eleven” is pretty much perfect, cynical and downbeat, like the hangover at the end of a long weekend spent desperately partying and losing way more money than you can afford. Pure Vegas. That’s how I remember it, although, to be honest, I haven’t seen it in several years.
I have a friend is an old Navy guy (although not an Old Navy guy) who got to talking about his training at the Great Lakes naval base back in the 60's, and he told some stories that came right out of Cinderella Liberty, right down to certain details. When I asked him about the book, he said he had never heard of it. I…
My advice, which should always be taken most cautiously, is to make a double feature of ‘Tender Mercies” and “The Apostle”, for two outstanding Robert Duvall meditations on religion in America.
That hat is pure Oklahoma/Midwest. Everybody has one by their eight grade graduation. It’s the suit that seems a bit out of place.
Have you ever been in a situation where someone was desperately, wildly, frantically trying to explain something to you that they believed was critically important, and you could tell how feverishly they felt they needed you to understand, and how important they believed the information was, but you just couldn’t make…
