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The Legend of Bigfoot, 1975

Recently there was another Bigfoot farce. The hoaxers held a press conference claiming they had a Bigfoot body1, but brought little to show — a couple blurry pictures, and DNA test results that led to some truly entertaining rationalizations.
I’ve always been fascinated by cryptozoology. When I was quite young, and gullible, I tended [...]

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, 1950

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 [...]

Tomboy, 1985

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 [...]

Lifeforce, 1985

(Not that I need an excuse to watch this magnificent misfire, but last month I came across Stacie Ponder’s Final Girl blog, specifically this post announcing the next movie for her film club. Since I’m shameless and will do anything to get links and up traffic, I figured I’d join in.)
(And I’m a day [...]

Annoyance

I upgraded to Xubuntu 8.04 a week ago, and things have gone pretty well so far. Firefox 3 Beta 5, for instance, is muuuuuuuch nicer in a low-RAM environment than its predecessor.
How. Ever.
On a lark, I popped in a copy-protected DVD, just to see if the upgrade jogged whatever was wrong before loose, [...]