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#122
You know why critics like Elvis Costello? / Paging Oleg, perhaps
January 28, 2013, 10:17:31 PM
Tickets for the U. of C. Folk Festival went on sale today. Oh, and the best seat in the house is closest box to stage left.
#123
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Phase IV
January 27, 2013, 12:21:47 AM
If one can get past the intial entomolgical pr0n, this promptly goes completely insane. Can we power a lab full of rack-mount shit and TV monitors with a Jeep Cherokee Wagoneer? Yes we can. Do we have to explain ourselves on the wireless to a bureaucrat who thinks all this junk can be packed up in a week? No, because we have a grenade pistol.
[Edit.--Note to brave maverick scientists: You know what actually works on ants? One-inch squares of duct tape.]
[Edit 2.--This completely collapses around Phase III. Recommended only for choice of props, which are basically the only thing even keeping this in the running with Where Have All the People Gone.]
[Edit.--Note to brave maverick scientists: You know what actually works on ants? One-inch squares of duct tape.]
[Edit 2.--This completely collapses around Phase III. Recommended only for choice of props, which are basically the only thing even keeping this in the running with Where Have All the People Gone.]
#124
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Letters from a Dead Man
January 20, 2013, 09:54:49 PM
In an unsurprising but perhaps underlooked development, the Russians knew how to do the fuck post-apocalyptic. Sorry, Testament.
[Edit.--Ah, that previewed properly the first time around.]
[Edit.--Ah, that previewed properly the first time around.]
#125
The Dead Pool / Commodone
January 17, 2013, 07:28:05 PM
Barry Altman, who attempted to resurrect the C64 in 2010.
#127
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Decay
January 02, 2013, 12:10:57 AM
Not bad for a $3000 production budget. Predictably, predictability is an issue as with the genre, but they put in a decent effort making it to the end, which I suppose is only finally predictable to a thoroughgoing cynic. Enjoyable in an updated ABC Movie of the Week sense, and it's hard to argue with the price.
#128
The Dead Pool / Fusion so cold one might not even notice
December 24, 2012, 08:33:45 PM
Martin Fleischmann passed in August.
#129
The Dead Pool / Gentlemen, the most important and fascinating sphere
December 24, 2012, 06:12:01 PM
Jack Klugman, RIP.
#130
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / The Day the Earth Caught Fire
December 21, 2012, 11:23:06 PM
I'm flabbergasted. This has got everything. Imagine an amalgam of All the President's Men, Under the Volcano, and When Worlds Collide.
[Edit.--Nutation. It has nutation. (Herstmonceux was dropped earlier, no time-ball pun intended.) Leo McKern being alarmed by the mention of nutation. This is essential viewing in the apocalyptic genre.]
[Edit 2.--Not to suggest that they get the topic anywhere near correct, but it's the thought that counts.]
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[Edit 4.]
[Edit.--Nutation. It has nutation. (Herstmonceux was dropped earlier, no time-ball pun intended.) Leo McKern being alarmed by the mention of nutation. This is essential viewing in the apocalyptic genre.]
[Edit 2.--Not to suggest that they get the topic anywhere near correct, but it's the thought that counts.]
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#132
This Bangla spook-detective entry seems promising. Has anyone caught it? (I'm looking at you, oblate membranous spheroids.)
#133
The Dead Pool / Well, who could have predicted that?
December 09, 2012, 09:58:55 PM
Local fortune-teller Irene Hughes, who also was informed by the stars that Obama would be a one-term president.
#134
The Old Feedbag / Christopher Kimball should be garroted with his bowtie
November 26, 2012, 10:18:09 PM
This give-me-your-marketing-information bastard is now mincing and prancing about "low and slow" omelet cooking on Milt Rosenberg. He forgets to fold it. Seriously, fuck you, Kimball. It doesn't take long to figure out if you actually engage in the task. Oh, and your butterflied turkey cooked atop stuffing was fucking atrocious.
[Edit.--Oh, fucking hell, now he's suggesting that an "easier" method for the "home cook" to roast a chicken is to brine it (and perhaps butterfly, to simplify things further).]
[Edit 2.--No, you pig-eyed sack of shit, "roasting" does not demand a spit and open flame.]
[Edit.--Oh, fucking hell, now he's suggesting that an "easier" method for the "home cook" to roast a chicken is to brine it (and perhaps butterfly, to simplify things further).]
[Edit 2.--No, you pig-eyed sack of shit, "roasting" does not demand a spit and open flame.]
#135
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
November 11, 2012, 12:49:41 AM
I imagine this is well-known material, but holy cats. Larry David is rendered instantly superfluous.
[Edit.--What's that you say? Yes, of course it is.]
[Edit.--What's that you say? Yes, of course it is.]
#136
The Old Feedbag / Do Not Use This Beverage as Part of a Proposal
November 09, 2012, 08:47:59 PM
A word to the wise (or someone).
QuoteGaby Scanlon is believed to have suffered an adverse reaction after drinking a correctly prepared Jagermeister drink made with liquid nitrogen to produce a steaming "cauldron effect."
#137
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Ikarie XB 1
October 30, 2012, 01:33:19 AM
At a mere 20 minutes in, I will call this a case of time better spent than the whole of The Walking Dead so far or anything it's likely to have on offer going forward. The sound needs a bit of equalization (it's tinny), but the Filmexport print is more than serviceable visually.
[Edit.--One can absolutely see where the dance scene would appeal to the same sensibility that brought "Invaders from Space" to the kiddie-reel circuit.]
[Edit 2.--I will lay better-than-even odds that the Buckaroo Banzai "somebody turn off that gosh-a darn klaxon" line is a direct nod to what happens next.]
[Edit.--One can absolutely see where the dance scene would appeal to the same sensibility that brought "Invaders from Space" to the kiddie-reel circuit.]
[Edit 2.--I will lay better-than-even odds that the Buckaroo Banzai "somebody turn off that gosh-a darn klaxon" line is a direct nod to what happens next.]
#138
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Ghost Story
October 22, 2012, 11:52:46 PM
I advance this opinion without reference to the novel.
For some reason, this movie was a big deal when I was in high school, as was American Werewolf, all of this revolving around somebody who got passes to early screenings. On its own terms, it's really no worse than Exorcist 3, with the bonus of the Salem's Lot cinematography and Frank Astaire's final performance. And some toe-nipple action.
For some reason, this movie was a big deal when I was in high school, as was American Werewolf, all of this revolving around somebody who got passes to early screenings. On its own terms, it's really no worse than Exorcist 3, with the bonus of the Salem's Lot cinematography and Frank Astaire's final performance. And some toe-nipple action.
#139
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / Culloden
October 13, 2012, 10:12:27 PM
At three minutes in, I am willing to declare this a study in bad. Highly recommended.
[Edit.--In retrospect, the first three minutes are about all one needs. This is essentially a farcical precursor to The War Game, and it doesn't much work. I'm feeling less than strongly inclined to move on to the 14.5-hour Resan.]
[Edit 2.--Unless you want to see Australians in skirts falling over a lot, of course. Then hang on for the whole ride.]
[Edit.--In retrospect, the first three minutes are about all one needs. This is essentially a farcical precursor to The War Game, and it doesn't much work. I'm feeling less than strongly inclined to move on to the 14.5-hour Resan.]
[Edit 2.--Unless you want to see Australians in skirts falling over a lot, of course. Then hang on for the whole ride.]
#140
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Kiss Eight Bucks Goodbye / The War Game
September 29, 2012, 09:21:53 PM
Seems promising.
[Edit.--I'm less sanguine regarding the one about the quashing of the Didgeridoo Jacobites, though. Time will tell.]
[Edit.--I'm less sanguine regarding the one about the quashing of the Didgeridoo Jacobites, though. Time will tell.]