Fall’s here! Fall begins with the letter “f,” kids! There are lots and lots of other words that begin with the letter “f,” now that fall is here! Can you think of any? I know can! Like…”f******” leaves to rake! “F******” snow tires to drag out of the garage! “F******” heating bills I can’t afford! “F******” pumpkin spice everywhere you “f******” turn! “F******” elections that are fixed! And “f******” sitting alone in your den, drinking heavily on a dark, rainy afternoon, cleaning the pistol your old man blew his brains out with, while you mentally flip a coin to see if you should just f****** follow suit! Can you think of any others? You can? Great! So remember: Fall means f****** fun!”
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‘Christmas in the Rockies’ (2020): Romance, lumberjack games, & WWE chicks for the win
Flying hatchets. Running with chainsaws.
These people will do anything for $50,000. But in this economy, who can blame them?
Continue reading ‘Christmas in the Rockies’ (2020): Romance, lumberjack games, & WWE chicks for the win‘Psycho IV: The Beginning’ (1990): Anthony Perkins returns in pay cable sequel
Entertaining, casually lurid unofficial “official” prequel/sequel to the iconic Hitchcock horror/suspense classic.
Continue reading ‘Psycho IV: The Beginning’ (1990): Anthony Perkins returns in pay cable sequel‘The Oklahoma City Dolls’ (1981): Skip the Super Bowl. Watch THIS instead!
Okay, now look: if you’re stupid enough to actually watch the Super Bowl this year believing that the fix isn’t in, now that the globalist Uni-Party has paid the curiously asexual PSYOP/singer to “hook up” (rrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiight) with the bone-headed “clot shot” shill, all in service of the eventual President Bumbles endorsement, well…I don’t know what I can tell you. You’re probably beyond reach.
Continue reading ‘The Oklahoma City Dolls’ (1981): Skip the Super Bowl. Watch THIS instead!‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Anthony Hopkins hams it up in shallow true crime performance
So, wait: Lindbergh willingly sacrificed his kid to Nobel Prize-winning biologist Alexis Carrel in some Abrahamic gesture to provide Carrel a body for eugenics experimentation that went wrong…and then covered it up? That promotion for a new whack-job book conspiracy theory came over my news feed the other day, and sucker though I am for any and all looney conspiracy theories, it immediately reminded me of NBC’s 1976 long, long telemovie, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, where the real crime wasn’t the kidnapping, but Anthony Hopkins’ deliciously awful Emmy-winning performance.
Continue reading ‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Anthony Hopkins hams it up in shallow true crime performance‘Crawlspace’ (1972): Excellent TV thriller a reminder to not invite strangers into your home
As with any kid—whether it’s your own or some crazed Manson hippie living and crapping in your crawlspace—you eventually just want them gone.
Continue reading ‘Crawlspace’ (1972): Excellent TV thriller a reminder to not invite strangers into your home‘Sweet Hostage’ (1975): Martin Sheen kidnaps Linda Blair in TV exploiter
A must-have primer for every would-be romantic kidnapper out there…although the only way Sweet Hostage would be remade today is if Bradley Cooper kidnapped Dylan Mulvaney.
Continue reading ‘Sweet Hostage’ (1975): Martin Sheen kidnaps Linda Blair in TV exploiter‘The U.F.O. Incident’ (1975): Fact, fiction, or Hollywood entertainment?
Can’t some bug-eyed outer space piece of sh*t abduct me the hell out of what passes for America today? Oh, well…one can dream.
Continue reading ‘The U.F.O. Incident’ (1975): Fact, fiction, or Hollywood entertainment?‘Frankenstein: The True Story’ (1973): Miniseries brings Mary Shelley’s classic monster to life
It’s Shock-tober, everyone! That’s right—time to take out a second mortgage to pay for your groceries this week. So, let’s lighten our loads by doing what I’ve been since I was in a playpen: escaping reality by obsessively watching TV. And what better way to block out the possibility of six more years of the Didy-in-Chief, than to watch one terrifying horror movie after another until one’s senses are completely numb.
Continue reading ‘Frankenstein: The True Story’ (1973): Miniseries brings Mary Shelley’s classic monster to life‘The California Kid’ (1974): A spare, surprisingly grim little suspenser
A clean, trim, hard-boiled little gem of a suspenser, from the golden days of network made-for-TV movies.
Continue reading ‘The California Kid’ (1974): A spare, surprisingly grim little suspenser‘Satan’s Triangle’ (1975): Decades later, occult thriller is still a winner
You know what would be the perfect vacation for this particular Fourth of July, Independence Day? In today’s America, I mean? Cruise to the Devil’s Triangle. But you say you just can’t let Beelzebub see your bikini bod this year? Well…you could check out Satan’s Triangle, the 1975 made-for-TV occult classic starring Kim Novak and Doug McClure, that originally appeared on the beloved anthology series, ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week (there’s a nice print streaming on Prime right now).
Continue reading ‘Satan’s Triangle’ (1975): Decades later, occult thriller is still a winner‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do’ (1979): Forgotten TV movie is a true gem
Worthwhile, even remarkable-at-times, made-for-TV drama; perfect viewing for post-football withdrawal…if you’re a real man.
Continue reading ‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do’ (1979): Forgotten TV movie is a true gem‘The Deadly Tower’ (1975): Questionable—but suspenseful—re-telling of real-life Texas killings
In a post-holiday mood for something light, I happened upon an older Warner Bros. Archive Collection disc of The Deadly Tower, NBC’s 1975 made-for-TV movie with Disney alumnus Kurt Russell starring as infamous University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman.
Continue reading ‘The Deadly Tower’ (1975): Questionable—but suspenseful—re-telling of real-life Texas killings‘Christmas in the Smokies’ (2015): Saving the family farm has never been so romantic
It’s a story as old as the hills where it’s set, and that’s A-OK when you want some down home, feel-good holiday viewing.
Continue reading ‘Christmas in the Smokies’ (2015): Saving the family farm has never been so romantic‘The Beasts are On the Streets’ (1978): Hanna-Barbera’s family-friendly disaster flick
Well…if everything else seems to be a disaster right now, it couldn’t hurt to watch some disaster flicks, now could it?
Continue reading ‘The Beasts are On the Streets’ (1978): Hanna-Barbera’s family-friendly disaster flickAlice in Wonderland (1966): BBC version is the one to watch!
Strange, unreal…frightening.
Continue reading Alice in Wonderland (1966): BBC version is the one to watch!‘Someone I Touched’ (1975): What’s going on down there? TV movie answers
…a.k.a.: First, You Drip.
Continue reading ‘Someone I Touched’ (1975): What’s going on down there? TV movie answers‘Superdome’ (1978): Skip the Super Bowl. Watch this instead
“Tomorrow we’ve got 75,000 people in the Dome…and a psycho on the loose.”
Continue reading ‘Superdome’ (1978): Skip the Super Bowl. Watch this instead‘Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure’ (1979): Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing
Attention! Attention fellow American lockdown inmates!
Continue reading ‘Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure’ (1979): Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ (1976): Impossibly hopeful teen romance scores big
Uh…they couldn’t just adopt?
Continue reading ‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ (1976): Impossibly hopeful teen romance scores big