Last weekend, I took Suzanne to see the new stop-motion animated film Wildwood. It’s a fantasy piece about a young girl who tries to rescue her baby brother, who is captured and taken to a mystical world just past the railroad tracks in Portland, Oregon. And when I say “stop-motion animation,” I’m not talking about…
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Yes, I’m ready for Godzilla Minus Zero.
There’s something to be said about a gigantic nuclear-irradiated lizard that terrorizes Tokyo with his flaming breath and big building-stomping feet. Yep. There’s a new Godzilla movie coming this November. And it’s in IMAX – which means we can see Godzilla in actual size. Wowie. To the average person, Godzilla films might seem like “you’ve…
Read More“My Cousin Vinny” on the Royale with Cheese Movie Club
For those who are new to my blog, the “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” features films that everybody in the world has seen – but I’m finally getting around to watching them. The blog feature is so named because it took me decades to get around to watching Pulp Fiction. Among other films. Last night,…
Read MoreThe Third Leg of Bruce (also known as The Dragon Lives Again)
Last week I blogged about some movies with strangely shared universes, whether it involved specific syndicates (the King Features Syndicated Universe in Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter) or who appear on a television network (the Adult Swim 25th anniversary special that will operate as a standalone episode of Robot Chicken). But now I…
Read MoreSo I read Spider-Man Brand New Day over the weekend …
It’s Saturday afternoon, and I’m at the local Regal Cinemas in East Greenbush. For me, I prefer this theater in that I don’t have to take a pre-assigned seat, and I can park outside the theater without having to walk through fifteen stores to get to the cinema. The plan this week was to watch…
Read MoreThe Joke that Censored the Three Stooges in 1933
Follow along with me on this. I only discovered this a couple of days ago, and it blew my mind. First, some background. In 1933, MGM released a motion picture called Dancing Lady, and boy did this film have a cavalcade of stars. Joan Crawford was the lead character, and the supporting performers included Clark…
Read MoreThe Royale With Cheese Movie Club: Shaolin Soccer
The Royale With Cheese Movie Club is a personal blog category where I finally watch a film that everybody else in the world has enjoyed. This is what happens when you take 20 years to finally get around to watching Pulp Fiction. And after that, I made a blog category for such movies. So ……
Read MoreThe New Christy Minstrels: The folk group that lasted for centuries
(These liner notes for a New Christy Minstrels “Best of” CD compilation were written by Chuck Miller in the late 1990’s.) To the uninitiated, “folk music” might conjure up visions of the Kingston Trio pondering where all the flowers have gone, or Peter, Paul and Mary questioning if the answer to world peace and harmony…
Read MoreObsession – what the hell did I just see?
It’s Saturday afternoon. I’ve taken some photos with some new camera gear, but I won’t know how the photos turned out until the film is developed. No matter. I have other things to do. And I’ve heard a lot of word-of-mouth about this film Obsession. Sorry, I think Obsession and I think of that 1980’s…
Read MoreThe Royale with Cheese TV Club: Fleabag
The Royale With Cheese Movie Club is a blog category where I finally get around to watching films that apparently everyone else in the world has seen. It was named after my finally seeing Pulp Fiction about 25 years after everyone else. Of late, I’ve added a TV subsection to this blog category, so at…
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