Fleapit of the Mind (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
SUSPIRIA not withstanding, DEEP RED is my favourite Dario Argento movie by a big margin. I'm not an Argento fanatic by any means but despite his sometimes alarming lack of narrative skill ( something he shares with other Italian horror directors such as Lucio Fulci and even the great Mario Bava) you can't deny the man is a true stylist. After the disappointment of the awful MOTHER OF TEARS I decided...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Go away. Aren't you gone yet? Why not? What is it about my little mountainside that drew you here and what can I do to erase that drawing? You want a reading, and then you'll go? I think I can arrange for that to happen... right now, in fact. Here you are: You are interested in art and music, but lack talent, especially at the former. You are hyper, as well as moderately intelligent -- enough to get...
New Film Dimension (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
The last few weeks have been devastating in the world of entertainment and it hasn't stopped yet. Another great actor has passed on, however, this time it was because the full run of his life ended naturally and that's a change - I'm not trying to sound morbid but with all of the recent deaths that were either from disease or other has been crazy lately. Anyhow, actor Karl Malden passed away just before...
Eye of Polyphemus (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes is almost embarrassingly minimalist in sets and casting. The former can be rationalized by the setting being a post-nuclear war Ape City and a completely destroyed forbidden City of radiation humans who will eventually become those bomb worshipers of the 40th century. The casting is a little harder to defend. Perhaps they broke the...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
The disaster movie cycle was finished by 1980, pretty much killed off for good by AIRPLANE! but it’s not like the films themselves didn’t have something to do with it. THE CONCORDE-AIRPORT ’79 is absurd, THE SWARM is hysterical, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is lame, but WHEN TIME RAN OUT… is about as bad as it gets. Any degree of guilty pleasure entertainment that was once...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 30/05/2009
Someone was asking me the other day what my favorite fight scene of all time is. Now, of course, this is something that comics fans go back and forth about all the time. Most of us who grew up on Marvel comics of the 60’s and ’70’s have an idea of superhero comics as being action movies [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Night Slaves (1970) may just be the dullest, cheesiest, most deeply silly TV movie of the seventies. And remember, I've seen Killdozer . It's a long, difficult slog through 75-minutes of ridiculous...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 15/02/2009
• I forgot to mention the winners of the Lovey Awards, given out last weekend at Chicago’s Love Is Murder conference. The Best Novel commendation went to Lifelines, by C.J. Lyons. Libby Fischer Hellman’s Easy Innocence was named the Best P.I./Police Procedural. And Tasha Alexander’s A Fatal Waltz won for Best Historical. A full rundown of the winners can be found here.•...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Your birthday today: You are ambitious, but can be easily discouraged. You give up too easily where you might accomplish great things. You are kind, just, generous and have an artistic temperament. Cultivate perseverance and confidence in your ability. You are fond of children. So, it would seem, is Cheryl Ann Cottrell B.1947, and these other persons of note seem to have persevered, until they succeeded:...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
Q.On an episode of "The Golden Girls," two police officers stayed in the women's home to protect them. I'm quite sure the younger officer was played by George Clooney. Am I right? - Elaine Levin, Denver
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