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Creature from the Haunted Sea, 1963

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 [...]

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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, 1950

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 [...]

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, 1951

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 [...]

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Lost in Alaska, 1952

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 [...]

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Laying claim to a gag

30 June 2008 – 2:31 pm +0800

Last week I ran into a guy I worked with for a while last year (Hi Steve!), and he attributed a joke to me that I honestly don’t remember. However, it’s brilliant, and Google reveals that nobody else has used it, at least online, so let me get this into the public record:
“I’m going [...]

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