I was a bit concerned when we got The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother in the mail from Netflix last December. I loved it to itty bitty pieces when it came out, at which point I was 13 or 14 years old. At the same time, I also adored a short-lived television series entitled Fantastic Journey, which died a sadly-deserved death after ( Read more... )

We rewatched Conan the Barbarian recently (we had both seen it on TV, but not ever sat down and watched the whole theatrical release), which is just such a quintessential popcorn sword-and-sandals movie, we both really enjoyed seeing it again. I really dug Sandahl Bergman as Valeria, and we went looking for her other movies (we have Red Sonja, ( Read more... )

There were some parts of this movie that I liked extremely well, and others that I didn't - overall, I would still say that I enjoyed it quite a lot despite the flaws. Some curious feminist issues going on. (SPOILER ALERT)( here be spoilers )

We got this on DVD from Netflix in August ( Read more... )

Somewhere or other we acquired a boxed set of 50 "classic" sci-fi movies on DVD. We figured it was a treasure trove of really bad movies, and we were right! Laser Mission is actually one of the more recent flicks included, but oh, it's BAD. It's also fun - it's the kind of bad movie that's good with popcorn and laughter ( Read more... )

Spectacularly bad movie from 1967 that looks a bit like Time Tunnel except with a much, much smaller budget. I mean, the tape reels on the computers in the background don't even go around! It starred Anthony Eisley, whom we liked in Hawaiian Eye, and some other people who needed a paycheck (but probably not a very big one ( Read more... )

TODS was away at a conference last weekend so I picked a movie to watch that he wouldn't mind missing. Strangely enough, he did not grow up watching Josie and the Pussycats every Saturday morning during middle school like I did! So that was the movie I watched ( Read more... )

( miscellaneous thoughts on the movie )

One reviewer called this a "joyless slog" and that was perfectly apt. It was long, dark (I mean, physically dark most of the time), and boring. The 3-D was ho-hum. I didn't think it would bear much resemblance to the original myth, which is good, because it bore virtually none, but I did think it would be a fun adventure romp, and it wasn't. The ( Read more... )

Free from Jaman.

Blame it on Fidel: Meh.
Love Songs: The French title (Paroles et Musique, Words and Music) was better; the Jaman description made it sound like it was chiefly about the affair between the characters played by Catherine Deneuve and Christopher Lambert, but that was only part of it; it was really about two rock performers (one who ( Read more... )