Thanks for that - still confused about the cops-street racers-criminals thing. Are they street racers who were drafted into the cops like the Mod Squad was? Criminals who steal only from worse criminals? Cops who act like criminals and do street racing on the side? My hope is they save a big twist for the end, where…

Somehow, despite being a huge fan of Cannon’s fine 80s work, and everything else I’ve ever heard about this movie indicating that it could not be more squarely in my wheelhouse, I’ve never seen Ninja III: The Domination. One of these days I must correct that. Don’t have TCM any more, sadly.

Never have seen any of these. But I know from the trailers that there’s plenty of talk about “family” between people who don’t even seem to be related! It seems practically an obsession with these people. Then of course they hop in their cars and do stunts. I thought they were a simple gang of street racers, but it…

I thought he was called ALPH because he was from Alpha Centauri. But I think we can agree that ALPH has not made a lasting impact on the cultural landscape. I myself never watched ALPH, though I do recall that ALPH himself loved cats.

“Tapper? I didn’t even know ‘er!”

Man o man, I went to see that Pet Sounds tour. It was fantastic. If something like that happens again (Wild Honey tour, Brian?), I’m definitely taking my dad.

Now, just what is he a baron of? Where is his barony located? Who are his subjects, and do they know they’re his subjects? When Boris Johnson visits, is this baron able to smell his blood?

This reminds me of ALPH, a forgotten show about an alien puppet who lives with a family of morons.

Klinger’s wedding to Radar

by Lynzee Cadham
Spokane Post-News

VANCOUVER, Canada

It’s time to pull out one last dress.

Jamie Farr, the actor who portrayed the transvestite Max Klinger on the beloved 1970s-era television show M*A*S*H, is getting ready to marry one of his co-stars from that very same show.

“I tell people…

An error or omission on the IMDb??? Perish forbid!

That’s interesting. Corman was usually pretty good about keeping promises like that (see the story behind Hollywood Boulevard as an example), so there must have been some other factor that kept Damon from directing anything. Maybe A.I.P. wouldn’t allow it?

Pleasance would have been great, no argument there. I think AIP always wanted to sneak this in as one of the Poe pictures, which is why they called it The Conqueror Worm in the US. As to Price’s performance, I believe it was achieved only after a lot of conflict between him and Michael Reeves, but that Reeves in the…

I think his best work was probably in Witchfinder General.

Premature Burial is worth a look - it was the only one of the Poe Cycle in which the great Dick Miller appeared, for one thing. And, absent Price, it still features most of the virtues all of the movies have.

A fantastic story! I’d love to have heard Price declaim in that way. I was at a similar event featuring Peter Ustinov though, which was fantastic. But I still never got to see Theatre of Blood on the big screen.

Clearly this is no SHADOWS & FOG.

Where on earth is that little dance scene from Bande à Part? Simply classic, captures your heart. Or the entr’acte in Holy Motors? Accordion to some, it’s a must see.

He doesn’t have a core.

I like that McBride followed this movie up with a softcore adaptation of the Archie comics called Hot Times, also known as A Hard Day for Archie. Again, ahead of his time. Featuring “Mughead.”

Remember all those farm pictures that came out back in 1984, like Country and The River and Places in the Heart? This seems like one of those, which is no awful thing.