Movie/film thread: resurrected

Today: ALMOST HUMAN. Thomas Milian + Henry Silva + Umberto Lenzi directing + Milan crime flick = maximum mayhem.

I'm watching District B13.  One of the finest displays of athleticism I have EVER seen.

1 of the guys in B13 played the first bad guy in Casino Royale and he was amazing, the other guy just recently showed up in Live Free or Die Hard, and again was amazing. 

Broken Trail - Robert Duvall, Thomas Hayden Church, good pot boiler western about a uncle and nephew on a horse drive who unwittingly rescue 5 Chinese women sold into prostitution.  AMC cable TV produced the film.  Thumb up.

Last Run - Fred Savage in a rather surprising role of a heartbroken accountant who turns into a sex maniac.  Sold as a romantic comedy but it plays heavy handed in some scenes, more like a dark comedy with some romance. Thumb up.

Tonight's feature:
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS. Iron town teens form a punk band and inadvertently start a movement. Diane Lane, Laura Dern, The Clash's Paul Simonon, The Tubes' Fee Waybil, the Sex Pistol's Steve Jones and Paul Cook, and the late, great Black Randy & The Metro Squad. Written by Jonathan Demme. I don't think it had much of a theatrical release back in '81, even though a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures) produced it.

 I remember first seeing it on Night Flight in 1985 (night Flight was the best damn music show on American television. It predated MTV by half a year and was vastly hipper. For example, you could see 3 Stooges shorts, cult movies, concerts from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and The Residents, Nam Jun Paik video art, stand-up comedy, and music videos from obscure bands of the era like Nitzer Ebb and Uta Hagen alongside mainstream stuff like Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson, with some Laurie Anderson and Kiss thrown in the middle, and it featured the wonderful New Wave Theater which showcased all manner of west coast punk: every Friday and Saturday night from 11pm until 6am and ran until 1988).

I have two flicks to watch for the show: BLOOD FREAK - a southern Florida cheapie from the seventies whose monster is a blood-drinking Turkey-man who came into being because the host organism (some biker) smoked tainted dope!

No joke!

Good or bad, that one's definitely making the cut.

The other is a film by the late Larry Buchanan called DOWN ON US, which claims to tell the "true story" of how the C. I. A. were behind the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin!

If it's as funny as its plot then it may very well be the final movie for the show.

Meet the Robinsons is the best kids' movie I've seen in a long time.  Laughed out loud on the plane several times

Air Canada has a tiny flatscreen TV in every seat! And their touch screens, and you can choose from a pretty big menu just what you want to watch! 

I take back every hateful thing i've ever seen about the airline.

Air Canada has a tiny flatscreen TV in every seat! And their touch screens, and you can choose from a pretty big menu just what you want to watch! 

It sounds like they took notes from Cathay Pacific.

Tonight's feature: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Seventies-era revenge film.

Tonight it's a double-feature of the late Richard Franklin's PATRICK and its unofficial Italian sequel, PATRICK STILL LIVES.

Tonight it's Kinji Fukasaku's boryokudan epics  BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR & HUMANITY 1 & 2.

300 Collector's Edition DVD, wonderful extras on this one including additional scenes and documentaries.

Mulan, possibly my favorite Disney film not counting Pixar's output of course.  I like Eddie Murphy as the Mushu the dragon a lot better than Eddie as the donkey in Shrek.

Grumblegrumble 300 won't be out on DVD here till the 21st August!! I'll just have to sit tight and look forward to Simpsons on Friday. First Czech food and beer, followed by Simpsons, followed by more good beer. Or, in my case, various kinds of non-alcoholic fizzy drinks

Wasnt Either of them another actor? Forgot his name - he was also in that movie with Beyonce where he went back to his town to sing in a church choir?

Tom Selleck in the "Stone Cold" (Jesse Stone) trilogy, based on Robert Parker's books.  Not earth-shattering, but an amusing watch, anyway.

Studio Ghibli's "Tales from Earthsea".  I love their animations.

Started watching NCIS - same format as CSI but in the US navy. Jethro replaces Horatio - better acting.  But I miss Horatio's 'devastating' one-liners!!