The title of this post was stolen from my husband, who was maybe half paying attention to the movie while next to me on the sofa. I first saw Young Frankenstein long before I saw The Bride of Frankenstein, so I always assumed that its amazing production design and cinematography were more modern inventions from Mel Brooks’s team. It would be years before I saw the original and realized that James Whale did it first. And that The Bride of Frankenstein wasn’t the quaint, dusty old relic that I’d…

The 1960s saw a rise in nostalgia for media from the 1930s and 1940s, including everything from Old Time Radio to pulp magazines to movie serials to comic books. It was then only natural that there would be a television adaptation of the popular radio show The Green Hornet. The show starred Van Williams as Britt Reid and his alter ego The Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Britt Reid's valet and partner in fighting crime Kato. It debuted sixty years ago today, on Friday, September 9, 1966.The Green…

Drag Race UK All Stars is coming next fall, but not to BBC in the UK, as the show and its spin-off have been cancelled.

That was a perfect movie for me to watch with the folks of the Cologne Film Club. It has been silently sitting in my collection for years without me procuring the capacity to watch it; too many things surrounding the creation of the film had built up a feeling of complexity and profundity that may be hard to stomach on a typical movie night. But that’s what a film club is for: Watching weird shit that you don’t have to apologize to your friends and family for afterwards while still being…

"Is it a football match tonight?" No, no, it's just a giant mass of leather men, kiffers, puppies and other assorted kinksters in the street having a nice time. #folsom #folsomBerlin #folsom2027 #folsomEurope #kink #fetish #leather #gay #queer #lgbtia #lgbtqia

Surprisingly heartwarming! Others have noted the anti-capitalist themes, which are certainly here, and made more relevant by the movie almost not seeing release so Warner could write it off on their taxes. It's also got some solid jokes and Will Forte is always great. I didn't love how the movie looked; the animation is all 3D made to look like hand drawn, and it ends up looking like a video game. All and all, good fun.

Tribute to Dick ClarkHe Wanted it so muchHe got it so muchLegally very muchAnd now, he's deadtracklist01 - Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) (1959).mp302 - John Lee Hooker- I Need Some Money (1960).mp303 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Money (1961).mp304 - Skip Cunningham - Money ((962).mp305 - Jennell Hawkins - Money (That's What I Want) (1962).mp306 - The Beatles - Money (That's What I Want) (1963).mp307 - Etta James ~ Money (That's What I Want) (1963).mp308 - Marty Wilde - Money (That's What I…

Theda Bara in 'A Fool There Was' (1915).They say there's a first time for everything. And this Sunday will be my first time with Theda Bara.And that seems surprising. After all, I've been doing silent film music for 20 years. In the hundreds of movies I've accompanied, you'd think the list might have included ONE Theda Bara film. But nope! A combination of scarcity (very few of her films survive) plus lack of availability of good-looking prints has led to a prolonged Theda Bara drought in my…

We have a(nother) trailer for the upcoming Prime series, Carrie. If you’re not familiar with the original novel or the movie, it’s about a girl—Carrie White—who has latent psychic powers and lives with an religiously oppressive mother. She tries to navigate high school and puberty but struggles amongst a lot of shitty people at home and school. This comes to a head when she is made Prom Queen but a group of kids play a horrible prank on her which has deadly consequences. The new series…

Coming toonI saw Dave Green's Coyote vs Acme and-- surprise surprise-- liked it. Didn't sound promising. The premise itself is looney tunes-- that Wile E. Coyote would finally come to his senses and attempt that most American of undertakings, file a lawsuit against the Acme Corporation; that the case would blow up into a congressional hearing commanding nationwide attention; and that this whole silly drama would be material enough to fill a hundred minute feature. Not to mention the real-world…

In my headcanon, Einstein (Doc’s dog) is constantly baffled by the stupid shit the humans in the movie are getting up to constantly. Why are humans like this? Table of ContentsWhy Back to the Future?The MovieConcluding Thoughts Why Back to the Future? Back to the Future is the fifth movie on the list of movies I am going through for the CineCat project. It also happens to be a movie I have seen referenced endlessly for yers and years so I happen to be familiar with the various objects and lines…

Ralph Forbes, Ronald Colman, and Neil Hamilton star in 'Beau Geste' (1926).Welcome to September! Four screenings in four different states are the silent film adventures coming up for me in the next week.The line-up includes...• On Wednesday, Sept. 9, I'll accompany the original silent film version of 'Beau Geste' (1926) at the Leavitt Theatre in Ogunquit, Maine. Showtime is 7 p.m.; tickets are $18 per person. Lots more info about the screening and the film in the press release that's pasted in…

📺 Watched: Star Trek The Original Series S1E5 "The Enemy Within" Aka Shatner chews the scenery. This episode is considered by some to be a "classic", and I enjoyed it, but it was a bit of a letdown after "The Naked Time". The short version is: a transporter accident splits Kirk into his gentle side, and his evil side. The "good" Kirk struggles with his capacity to make decisions as the episode continues, realizing that he needs "the enemy within"1 to be a complete person and that everyone has a…

by Cláudio Alves With 16 overall nominations, BEEF’s second season is our likely frontrunner. But who cares? It’s over, finished. The TV Academy has broken us – Eric, Nathaniel and I – with the dullest Limited or Anthology Series race in eons. Make that races, for even the acting categories leave something to be desired, with rampant category fraud and some egregious snubs. How did Jamie Bell miss out for Half Man? How in hell did every one of Beef’s leads get a nod except the season’s MVP? And…

The Frock Flicks team is taking a last bit of time off as fall begins,

We have “visited” Skellig Michael before at Kuriositas, but this video is a wonderful, personal tour of the island and its famous monastery (as featured in Star Wars!). Nine miles off the coast of County Kerry in what most people would call the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the island is home to lots and lots of birds and, of course, the monastery, which operated for 800 years. Irish comedian, actor and writer Tommy Tiernan takes a trip to the island, and it has a profound effect on him. One of…

Barbara Stanwyck was one of the few actresses, or female actors if you prefer (seems a clunkier way of saying it, but stresses that it is after all THE SAME JOB), who William A. Wellman liked. He had no patience with women fussing with their appearance. He did marry the excellent Dorothy Coonan from WILD […]

... of Jason Eskenazi!

Yesterday we spent a wonderful day at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival -- where, I'm glad to report, we snagged one of the last open parking spots at the Holiday Inn next door to the Nuart Theatre.Over the course of the day we saw half a dozen movies, one 10-minute Vitaphone short, and three Technicolor shorts from Paramount. It was quite a full day!I wasn't particularly enthused with the first film, MY LADY'S LIPS (1925). (What a title!) It was a silent melodrama starring William Powell,…

It likely won a Darwin Award.

A few groups of ultimate badass killer burglars get into death feuds with each other because nobody can act professional for just a few seconds at a time. A couple of love triangles here: hot dancer Mona is dating extreme badass Chow Yun-Fat (in his extreme badass era, same year as Hard Boiled) then when he disappears she bounces to sniveling ponytail weenie Anthony Wong. And Wong bounces from his best friend Chow to gay magician Simon Yam, falling in with Yam’s gang of villains (a girl named…

The first recording today starts with the end of Roman Mysteries. There’s a trail for Deadly 60. Then it’s a repeat of Dinosapien – Critters. Media Centre Description: Drama telling the story of 15-year-old Lauren, whose father mysteriously disappeared on a fossil expedition. Lauren must protect Eno, an intelligent dinosaur, from the dangerous Diggers – dinosaurs that are hunting Eno and trying to kill him – and from the mysterious palaeontologist Dr Clive Aikens. Lauren and Kit go to find Eno,…

Movie opens with Ho Lik-Wong going to prison, chest full of bullets, getting on everyone’s bad side… that’s right, according to my version’s perverted subtitles, the lead guy in Riki-oh: The Story of Ricky is not even named Ricky. The local toughs try to set the new guy straight, but Ricky beats the absolute hell out of them, quickly escalating matters to the higher toughs – there are so many toughs in this prison, really brutal dudes, and Rick One-Punch-Man‘s most of them into gory blood…

by Cláudio Alves Greer Garson earned herself five consecutive Oscar nominations during WWII. For BLOSSMONS IN THE DUST (1941), MRS. MINIVER (1942), MADAME CURIE (1944), MRS. PARKINGTON (1944), and THE VALLEY OF DECISION (1945). She won the Best Actress trophy in 1942 for William Wyler's first Best Picture champion. TIFF is almost upon us, so my Alternative Oscar History series will have to take a break. In the meantime, in this last post for a while, let’s look at the period between 1940 and…

Thursday, September 8, 1966 is a very important date in television. Many know it as the date that the classic Star Trek debuted, but other important shows also debuted on that date. One of them was Tarzan, starring Ron Ely, the first television adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's hero. Another was That Girl, starring Marlo Thomas. While it would not leave as big a footprint on pop culture as Star Trek, in many ways That Girl was equally important. Quite simply, it was the first television show…

South Park’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced that they are changing the show’s name. Variety: “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of ‘South… More

Today marks 60 years since the official premiere of Star Trek, the cult classic television programme about an, at the time, unusually diverse cast of folks exploring space in the not-so-distant future. Since then, the franchise has seen an additional 11 television series, four miniseries, 14 movies, and an uncountable quantity of spin-off media. Something in the Star Trek canon has been in production for virtually the entirety of those six decades. I’ve banged on a lot about being a furry on…

Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and truly his own – an impressive feat given Pertwee’s longevity and popularity in the role. He himself would acknowledge from time to time the crucial help he had in this from Elisabeth Sladen, who as Pertwee’s final companion had a season’s worth of experience on the show when he himself came onboard, and the camaraderie the two enjoyed with Ian Marter was a big help too. Two and a…

By Juan Carlos Ojano FILIPIÑANA has the potential to break the Philippines’ Oscar-less streak… if it gets submitted. The Film Academy of the Philippines was set to announce the country's official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards last September 4. However, a statement was issued instead, postponing the whole thing to give way for further deliberations. This comes after the Filipino theatrical release as well as the US theatrical release of the supposed…

In the 21st 23rd 22nd Century (probably), the mining ship Red Dwarf was subjected to a lethal radiation leak that killed the entire crew. The ship's AI, Holly, aimed the ship out of the Solar system to prevent contamination. Sealed in the hold of the ship, a pet cat named Frankenstein had a litter of kittens. Their descendants, over three million years, evolved into a humanoid lifeform. There was a huge religious war, the result of confused race-memories of their god/owner, Cloister the Stupid,…