21 November 2008 – 1:08 pm +0800
Here’s the poster I’m seeing everywhere for Jim Carrey’s new (irritating-looking) vehicle, Yes Man:
Every time I see it, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve seen it before.
And recently.
Like this past summer.
As part of the promotional materials for Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, there was this poster for one of his character’s previous Oscar-baiting [...]
20 November 2008 – 3:38 pm +0800
Thanks to all of the various people who’ve ordered things from Amazon through the links on this site, I got a credit, and ordered a gift for myself.
It wasn’t supposed to arrive till tomorrow, but I got it today!
I’m going to have some fun this weekend. (I almost want to [...]
20 November 2008 – 2:17 pm +0800
This is the movie Vincent Price made right after The House on Haunted Hill, it seems, and you can sort of see why he agreed to be in it. It’s another gimmicky story, set mostly in one location, that seems like it should be having fun bringing the audience in on the joke.
Except that [...]
5 November 2008 – 7:12 am +0800
This is a silent movie (of course, given the year), and as such will be of limited interest to most people. However, it is worth seeing at least once.
The main reason to see it is John Barrymore’s performance as the two titular characters. While saying that he pulls off Hyde without [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged ACTING, altruist, distinct characters, dr jekyll and mr hyde, drug, horror, horror film, horror show, john barrymore, makeup, Mill Creek, nita naldi, performance, pleasure, premises, public domain, self denial, silent movie, soul, surrender, temperance, temptation, transformation, woman
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4 November 2008 – 8:38 am +0800
A comment from Quint’s A Movie A Day review of Flying Tigers:
Many years ago I had a friend who was a combat pilot in Vietnam. He would tell the story about his old fight commander (let’s call him Frank), who had been one of the pilot the military loaned to Republic for the production of [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged combat pilot, emergency landing, engine trouble, flying tigers, green berets, John Wayne, touchdown, true story, twenty five years, uso tour, vietnam
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3 November 2008 – 3:46 pm +0800
Kurt Russell won’t be getting invited to Inside the Actors’ Studio anytime soon1:
“To go on about acting as art is ridiculous. You don’t have to be gifted just to hit a mark and a line. As far as I’m concerned that’s 90 per cent of the job. Anyone who finds acting difficult just shouldn’t be [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged actors studio, angst, art, craft, job, kurt russell, line, mark, melodrama, metrosexual, real man
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3 November 2008 – 8:13 am +0800
Suppose you were in charge of a government operation. The purpose of that operation, for the moment, is to transport some hazardous material cross-country, without drawing attention to it. Suppose further that you don’t have much knowledge of how dangerous (or not) this material might be. And that it came from Mars, [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged 1970s, Alpha Incident, andromeda strain, backstory, boring, buck flower, cheapie, girl, government, government operation, hazardous material, hick, hillbilly, jiggle, low rent, Mars, pressure changes, Ralph Meeker, real actor, scientist, station, tense days, train, train engineer, train station, viking probe
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2 November 2008 – 8:54 pm +0800
Yeah, I’m something like two weeks behind on the Spook-a-Thon. I’m not quitting, though. I’ve just had to deal with some personal stuff, which was, as per usual, emotionally draining.
I think I’m going to take some time on at least one of the posts. I intend on re-watching and re-reviewing Night of [...]
27 October 2008 – 7:52 am +0800
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Peter Falk was a badass.
This film was interesting, and would make an excellent companion piece to Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith’s Bucket of Blood. They were produced the same year, a continent apart (Bucket in Los Angeles, Brood in Toronto), and both examine the beatnik life in [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged badass, beatnik, bohemian, bucket of blood, cafe, charles b. griffith, companion piece, control, death, heart attack, horror, horror film, intelligence, jazz, messenger, murder, palate cleanser, peter falk, power, roger corman, saul bass, telegram, Toronto
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26 October 2008 – 10:47 pm +0800
Ah, Gamera.
One of the major joys of Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the onslaught of Gamera movies (dubbed courtesy of Mr. Sandy Frank) in the third season. I saw every one they did, and have since seen at least one Gamera film that eluded them (the dubbing of that one provided, somewhat more competently, [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged american actors, atomic bomb, bad movie, brian donlevy, detonation, Evolution, fighter jets, flick, gamera films, gamera movies, giant monsters, Japan, japanese children, kaiju, lighthouse, Mars, Monster, mystery science theater 3000, precambrian era, sandy frank, soviet fighter, turtle
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25 October 2008 – 2:55 pm +0800
Produced and directed by Roger Corman, but without a script by either Richard Matheson or Charles B. Griffith. That should be enough to tell you, assuming you are a bad movie lover, more or less what level this movie is playing at.
If not, then allow me to clue you in. It means that [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged amazing discoveries, bad movie, bee farm, board meeting, monster movie, quarter revenues, queen bees, roger corman, royal jelly, scientist, susan cabot, wasps
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23 October 2008 – 10:39 am +0800
A bunch of people get lost in the fog, and somehow all end up at the same dark, mysterious, not very large mansion, which overlooks a graveyard near an abandoned village. They spend most of the time rehashing (or flashing back to) their personal lives, and some of the time getting stalked and killed [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged fog, gothic, graveyard, italian, mansion, narrative, personal lives, vampire, village, zombies
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22 October 2008 – 8:50 pm +0800
Christopher Lee.
Peter Cushing.
And… Telly Savalas?????
Yes, Telly Savalas. His role is more of a glorified cameo than a full part. It is, however, quite glorious.
Somewhere in remote China, around about 1910, Christopher Lee has dug up something that will set the scientific world back on its heels, a body that he thinks is a [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Tagged Beijing, brain, brains, Britain, cameo, China, christopher lee, corpse, Devil, Dinosaur, drawing, film, horror, missing link, monk, Monster, movie, murder, peter cushing, police, police inspector, russian nobility, scientist, Shanghai, siberia, station, stowaway, telly savalas, thief, train
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21 October 2008 – 12:22 pm +0800
This movie kicks ass.
Really, need anything more be said?
OK, I guess I could go on a bit.
Years ago, I had a religious experience when I read Roger Corman’s autobiography, How I Made 100 Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime. This movie gets heavy mention in it because a critic once [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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