4 December 2008 – 4:37 pm +0800
I got emailed this hilarious ad:
And it reminded me of the dirtiest ad Disney has ever put on TV (and also one of their best):
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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Posted in Movies, Reviews, Spook-A-Thon 2008, Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged american gangster, bad movie, creature from the haunted sea, film, gag, last woman on earth, monster movie, monster suit, robert towne, roger corman, screenwriter, script, voiceover
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22 July 2008 – 3:30 pm +0800
I think I’m getting a little overdosed on Bud and Lou. The more I watch, the less I seem to have to say, despite this being one of the stronger entries in the collection I bought.
At the opening of Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Bud is a wrestling manager in New York [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in General
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Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello, arab tribes, beautiful girls, Costello, DVD, easy on the eyes, film, french foreign legion, gag, joseph cotten, mirage, movie, Movies, New York, oasis, patricia medina, physical comedy, slave auction, Tangier, wrestling match
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17 July 2008 – 8:47 am +0800
Talk about your mixed bag. There are moments here that rank right up with almost any routine Abbott and Costello ever did.1 And there are interminable stretches of deadly dullness, punctuated by deadly dull songs. Seven (!) of them.
But all in all, certainly worth watching.
After Comin’ Round the Mountain opens a Manhattan [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello, Costello, family, Kentucky, Manhattan, Margaret Hamilton, McCoy, McCoy-Wakefield, movie, Movies, nightclub, review, Reviews, voodoo
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16 July 2008 – 7:31 am +0800
Dang, this one was good.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are graduating Detective School at the beginning of this one.1 They get hired by a private detective agency and work the night shift alone in the office. Their first night a man walks in with a case. He’s a boxer who’s been framed [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello, abbott and costello meet the invisible man, boxer, boxing ring, Claude Rains, Costello, film, gag, invisibility, movie, murder, private detective agency, Universal Studios
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15 July 2008 – 7:53 am +0800
Unlike Abbott and Costello Go To Mars, this is the bottom of the barrel as Abbott and Costello movies go. But the great thing is that with A&C there’s a baseline of quality to their work. However bad the script, low the budget, or awful the cast, Bud and Lou are pretty much [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello, abbott and costello movies, Alaska, Costello, film, gag, gold, joke, Mitzi Green, movie, Movies, nostalgia, Nugget, roulette wheel, San Francisco, Tom Ewell, Yukon
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14 July 2008 – 3:27 pm +0800
This movie was probably a huge influence over who I am. Frightening thought.
As Abbott & Costello movies go, it’s really not that great. Better than the worst, certainly watchable with moments that are genuinely funny, but hardly top of the line. (We’ll be getting to the top of the line next week.)
But [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello, Anita Ekberg, Central Casting, Costello, flick, Mardi Gras, Mars, Miss Universe, Movies, New Orleans, New York City, science fiction, Universal Studios, venus
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1 July 2008 – 3:38 pm +0800
Tomboy is, in its way, perfect. It’s not good. It’s intermittently entertaining in the usual sense. But it is perfectly what it sets out to be, and like The Pom Pom Girls, there isn’t a mean bone in its body.
This is the movie I referenced the other day as being precisely what [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Also tagged bad movie, Betsy Russell, charming actress, dance number, daytona 500, DVD, Eric Douglas, exploitation flicks, film, Films, movie, Movies, review, Reviews, rich jerk, School Dazed 8 Movie Collection, stock car race, stock car racing, synthesizer, teen comedy
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18 June 2008 – 5:19 pm +0800
I’m pressed for time while writing this, and still have two more movies to write up to fill out the week, so I’m not going to be going on at quite the length I did yesterday, nor will there be pictures or music.
Don’t let that fool you. It Can Be Done, Amigo is even [...]