The weekly round up of reviews, interviews, and more about A/V materials, usually those that have been undeservedly overlooked (some deservedly, some not overlooked at all in some cases, but those write-ups need to have some larger interest to make this not exactly exclusive list...usually!). More to come in this week's list, sometime tomorrow...thanks to all!
Adam Ferenz: The Fly (1986 film); The Matrix
A. J. Wright: Cathy O'Donnell
Anne Billson: David Lynch; posters as art
Bhob Stewart: Vic and Sade; Trouble the Water; Jazz on Summer's Day; game show scandals
The Big Broadcast 21 August 2016:
Bill Crider: So Fine [trailer]
Bob Clark: Akira
Brent McKee: Democrats v. Republicans in choices of US tv drama
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Classic Movie Salon: A Hatful of Rain; this week's Sunday discussion:
Mister 880
Colin McGuigan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
Cult TV: The Prisoner: "Living in Harmony"; "The Girl Who Was Death"
Cynthia Fuchs: The Host (2013 film)
David Vineyard: House of Secrets (1936 film)
Elizabeth Foxwell: The 20th Century-Fox Hour: "Deception"; heist films featuring women thieves
Eric Hillis: Conversation Piece (1974 film)
Faculty of Horror: The Babadook; Goodnight Mommy
George Kelley: Muscle Shoals; Indignation
"Gilligan Newton-John": Carry On Christmas
How Did This Get Made?: Gods of Egypt
Iba Dawson: Mae West; Noir in color
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Chicago Confidential
Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Woman Who Wanted to Live"
Jackie Kashian: Karen Rontowski on tarot, comedians, etc.
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Seven Days in May
Jake Goldman: NET Playhouse: "Between Time and Timbuktu" (Kurt Vonnegut adaptation)
James Reasoner: Guns in the Dark
Janet Varney: Jessica St. Clair
Jason Abbey: Female Prisoner Scorpion
Jason Bailey: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 trainwreck film)
--courtesy Bill Crider
Jerry House: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; X Minus One: "Skulking Permit"
John Grant: The Ninth Guest
John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die: the episodes reviewed
John Varley: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Jonathan Lewis: Sabata
Karen Hannsberry: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Kate Laity: Tutti Frutti
Ken Levine: The Night Before; lost and found scripts
Kliph Nesteroff: The Frances Langford Special
Kristina Dijan: Naked City (tv series)
Laura G: The Deadline (1931 film); Arizona Bound; About Face; The Reluctant Dragon; TCM in November
Lesley Gaspar: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947 film)
Lindsey D: Internes Can't Take Money
Lucy Brown: Leaving (tv)
Maltin on Movies: Mel Brooks
Marilyn Ferdinand: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Martin Edwards: A Game of Murder; One of Us (BBC TV)
Marty McKee: Man on a Swing; Supertrain: "Express to Terror"; HellBound
Mildred Perkins: Stacy
Mitchell Hadley: Cleveland/Columbus television, 26 August 1971; TV Guide, 21 August 1971; sitcoms
Movie Sign with the Mads: Suicide Squad
Noel Vera: You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting; Lilia Cuntapay (aka Antoinette Jadaone)
Patricia Nolan-Hall: Night Must Fall and Robert Montgomery
Patti Abbott: Sabrina (1954 film); wait staff in drama
Paul Brazill: The Woman in the Window
Pop My Culture: Andre Gower and Ryan Lambert
Raquel Stecher: Song of Russia; CapitolFest
Rick: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Robert Hornak: E. T.: The Extraterrestrial
Roberto Curti: Unlikely superheroes of Italian cinema
Rod Lott: Observance; Killing Spree; The Bat People;
"Rupert Pupkin": Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon; Wild in the Streets
Ruth Kerr: American Madness with Constance Cummings
Salome Wilde: quick takes: The Damned Don't Cry; I Confess; Johnny Eager; I Walk Alone; The Devil and Daniel Webster; Ladies in Retirement; The Bat; Elevator to the Gallows; Danger 5: Season 2
Sarah Jane: Underrated films of 1976
Sergio Angelini: The Pearl of Death
Stacia Kissick Jones: Doc Hollywood
Stacie Ponder: films I love
Stephen Bowie: TV series that took a while to find their feet
Stephen Gallagher: TV drama anthologies and adaptations; Jurassic Park when new
Television Obscurities: Slattery's People
Tim Lones: WJAN, Canton, OH
Tynan: October: Ten Days That Shook the World; She Done Him Wrong
Victoria Loomes: You'll Never Get Rich
Vienna: Hitchcock's left turn with Psycho; Ingrid Bergman
Walter Albert: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Courtesy Kate Laity, who notes about the trailer, "Wow.":
The Guardian's Stuart Heritage (?) has a bit of a snarky rant about this trailer here, and it is pretty miserable:
My response to both trailer and rant:
Yes, even given trailers are the worst thing about most movies (and all you need of a film like this, most likely), if "Stuart Heritage" has never seen anything more offensive than this, I envy his life, if not his experience of the world...but, yes, there's a high ratio of flakes among the cast of award-winners, and clearly Zellweger's role was meant for Gwyneth Paltrow, but the nasal drawl was beyond the latter's ability. But, yeah. Smuglift (tm) at its finest.
[I probably didn't come up with this term...but it's useful to describe such films as the Oscar-winning Crash.]
Adam Ferenz: The Fly (1986 film); The Matrix
A. J. Wright: Cathy O'Donnell
Anne Billson: David Lynch; posters as art
Bhob Stewart: Vic and Sade; Trouble the Water; Jazz on Summer's Day; game show scandals
The Big Broadcast 21 August 2016:
- 7 p.m. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
“The Chesapeake Fraud Matter” Parts 4 + 5 (CBS, Original airdates October 20 and 21, 1955) - 7:30 p.m. Burns and Allen
“George's Allergy Problem” (NBC, Original Airdate September 5, 1946) - 8 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Kitty’s Killing”, episode 285 (CBS, Original airdate February 2, 1958) - 8:20 p.m. The Adventures of Superman
“Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field” Part #6 (Mutual/MBS, Original airdate May 9, 1940) - 8:30 p.m. Dragnet
“Sullivan Kidnapping” (NBC, Original airdate September 10, 1949) * - 9 p.m. The Whistler
“Murder at Twin Pines” (CBS, Original airdate April 10, 1949) * - 9:30 p.m. Dimension X
“With Folded Hands” (NBC, Original airdate April 15, 1950) - 10 p.m. Suspense
“The Man Who Knew How” (CBS, Original airdate August 10, 1944) - 10:30 p.m. Inner Sanctum
“Birdsong For a Murderer” (CBS, Original airdate June 22, 1952)
Bob Clark: Akira
Brent McKee: Democrats v. Republicans in choices of US tv drama
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Classic Movie Salon: A Hatful of Rain; this week's Sunday discussion:
Mister 880
Colin McGuigan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
Cult TV: The Prisoner: "Living in Harmony"; "The Girl Who Was Death"
Cynthia Fuchs: The Host (2013 film)
David Vineyard: House of Secrets (1936 film)
Elizabeth Foxwell: The 20th Century-Fox Hour: "Deception"; heist films featuring women thieves
Eric Hillis: Conversation Piece (1974 film)
Faculty of Horror: The Babadook; Goodnight Mommy
George Kelley: Muscle Shoals; Indignation
"Gilligan Newton-John": Carry On Christmas
How Did This Get Made?: Gods of Egypt
Iba Dawson: Mae West; Noir in color
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Chicago Confidential
Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Woman Who Wanted to Live"
Jackie Kashian: Karen Rontowski on tarot, comedians, etc.
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Seven Days in May
Jake Goldman: NET Playhouse: "Between Time and Timbuktu" (Kurt Vonnegut adaptation)
James Reasoner: Guns in the Dark
Janet Varney: Jessica St. Clair
Jason Abbey: Female Prisoner Scorpion
Jason Bailey: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 trainwreck film)
--courtesy Bill Crider
Jerry House: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; X Minus One: "Skulking Permit"
John Grant: The Ninth Guest
John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die: the episodes reviewed
John Varley: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Jonathan Lewis: Sabata
Karen Hannsberry: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Kate Laity: Tutti Frutti
Ken Levine: The Night Before; lost and found scripts
Kliph Nesteroff: The Frances Langford Special
Kristina Dijan: Naked City (tv series)
Laura G: The Deadline (1931 film); Arizona Bound; About Face; The Reluctant Dragon; TCM in November
Lesley Gaspar: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947 film)
Lindsey D: Internes Can't Take Money
Lucy Brown: Leaving (tv)
Maltin on Movies: Mel Brooks
Marilyn Ferdinand: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Martin Edwards: A Game of Murder; One of Us (BBC TV)
Marty McKee: Man on a Swing; Supertrain: "Express to Terror"; HellBound
Mildred Perkins: Stacy
Mitchell Hadley: Cleveland/Columbus television, 26 August 1971; TV Guide, 21 August 1971; sitcoms
Movie Sign with the Mads: Suicide Squad
Noel Vera: You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting; Lilia Cuntapay (aka Antoinette Jadaone)
Patricia Nolan-Hall: Night Must Fall and Robert Montgomery
Patti Abbott: Sabrina (1954 film); wait staff in drama
Paul Brazill: The Woman in the Window
Pop My Culture: Andre Gower and Ryan Lambert
Raquel Stecher: Song of Russia; CapitolFest
Rick: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Robert Hornak: E. T.: The Extraterrestrial
Roberto Curti: Unlikely superheroes of Italian cinema
Rod Lott: Observance; Killing Spree; The Bat People;
"Rupert Pupkin": Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon; Wild in the Streets
Ruth Kerr: American Madness with Constance Cummings
Salome Wilde: quick takes: The Damned Don't Cry; I Confess; Johnny Eager; I Walk Alone; The Devil and Daniel Webster; Ladies in Retirement; The Bat; Elevator to the Gallows; Danger 5: Season 2
Sarah Jane: Underrated films of 1976
Sergio Angelini: The Pearl of Death
Stacia Kissick Jones: Doc Hollywood
Stacie Ponder: films I love
Stephen Bowie: TV series that took a while to find their feet
Stephen Gallagher: TV drama anthologies and adaptations; Jurassic Park when new
Television Obscurities: Slattery's People
Tim Lones: WJAN, Canton, OH
Tynan: October: Ten Days That Shook the World; She Done Him Wrong
Victoria Loomes: You'll Never Get Rich
Vienna: Hitchcock's left turn with Psycho; Ingrid Bergman
Walter Albert: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Courtesy Kate Laity, who notes about the trailer, "Wow.":
The Guardian's Stuart Heritage (?) has a bit of a snarky rant about this trailer here, and it is pretty miserable:
My response to both trailer and rant:
Yes, even given trailers are the worst thing about most movies (and all you need of a film like this, most likely), if "Stuart Heritage" has never seen anything more offensive than this, I envy his life, if not his experience of the world...but, yes, there's a high ratio of flakes among the cast of award-winners, and clearly Zellweger's role was meant for Gwyneth Paltrow, but the nasal drawl was beyond the latter's ability. But, yeah. Smuglift (tm) at its finest.
[I probably didn't come up with this term...but it's useful to describe such films as the Oscar-winning Crash.]
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