The project has begun, and I'm already behind! 6 movie review capsules after the cut.


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I'm watching more movies lately, after a summer largely spent playing computer games. Thought I'd toss off some review capsules, since it's easier than writing something coherent for Mark of Zorro (maybe tomorrow on that one.) Here come those reviews now...


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Hello, kiddies. Time for another Friday of Fear! But before we get to that: VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Sunday night/Monday morning, in TCM's new weekly "foreign film" timeslot: two remarkable Japanese horror films from the 1960s.

2:00 AM       Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
      Alien creatures turn plane crash survivors into vampires. Cast: Teruo ( Read more... )

This weeks horror flicks, kind of a mixed lot:

19 Friday
6:00 AM     Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
      A scientist keeps his wife's severed head alive until he can find a new body for her. Cast: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel. Dir: Joseph Green. BW-70 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM     Soul of a Monster, The (1944)
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Here's this weekends horror movies on TCM:

12 Friday
6:00 AM     Wild, Wild Planet, The (1965)
      Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders. Cast: Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero. Dir: Anthony Dawson. C-94 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
7:45 AM     From The Earth To The Moon (1958)
      Lifelong rivals collaborate on a 19th- ( Read more... )

Well, crap. I thought they were running these movies Friday nights, but it turns out they're all day! Fortunately, they're starting with mostly crap. The good stuffs on tonight. Here's the list:

10:30 AM       Vampire, The (1957)
      An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vampire. Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth ( Read more... )

Note: TCM comsiders the day to begin at 6AM for scheduling purposes. This is important this month, because every single day is themed around a specific star. Thus, the films listed for 2AM Friday, are actually Friday night aka Saturday morning. Hope this isn't too confusing.

3 Friday Joan Crawford Day

2:00 AM     Berserk! (1967)
      A lady ( Read more... )

15 Friday
5:00 PM     It Happened One Night (1934)
      A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC
 Funny, sexy, romantic Capra classic.

8:00 PM     Nancy Drew--Detective (1938)
      A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy ( Read more... )

So, OK, I missed a day. Nothing was really on last night anyway.

9 Saturday

8:00 PM     African Queen, The (1951)
10:00 PM     Rain (1932)
12:00 AM     Beachcomber (1954)
1:30 AM     Return To Paradise (1953)
3:15 AM     Cat's Paw, The (1934)

Tonight's theme is "missionaries" for some reason. Bogart and Katherine Hepburn star in "African Queen," a nifty ( Read more... )

Friday, May 18
8:00 PM: 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
10:00 PM: Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
A pair of George Pal-produced fantasy films. Both are well-regarded. “Jack” has apparently been hard to come by since some dinks bought it in the 1970s and re-edited it into a musical(!). This airing will be the original version (featuring sub-Harryhausen stop- ( Read more... )