Rare Exports
“I didn’t know you could mix Santa Claus and horror movies,” my son Max told me this morning (y’all met him last week when he guest blogged on my behalf). He was referring specifically to his and my...
View ArticleMack Daddy, Daddy Mack
[Slapsticon, the greatest film event of the year, has been canceled this year. To grieve it, I am devoting the entire month of July to posts about slapstick comedy.] He was the Roger Corman of comedy....
View Article“Lesbians, Martial Arts, High Heels and Science”: More Marketing Madness from...
As a former editor, I am annoyed that the items listed in the tagline above are not parallel: After all, it should be “Lesbians, Martial Arts, High Heels and Sciences.” But, then again, that is the...
View ArticleThe Face of Fear — Don Knotts in “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”
I really wanted to contribute something to this Halloween blogfest, so I offer a little nonsensical coda about a movie I’m sure a lot of us have seen many times and probably enjoy. Funny + spooky has...
View ArticleThe Spring Lineup
Before delving into some highlights for my upcoming calendar film program, which has everything from singing cannibals and Robby the Robot to sex addicts and Pam Grier (in-person!)… I’d like to...
View ArticleSnapshots of the Fall: Part II
In my last post I provided a look behind the curtain for the first five weeks of film programming for my fall film calendar. This week we look at the remaining 24 titles that round out the schedule....
View ArticleExtruded plastic dingus, for kids
Last week I posted here some embarrassing anecdotes about my experiences as a color timer in the early 1990s—and I’d intended to immediately follow it up with a sequel. The first post was about Even...
View ArticleWaging War on Christmas
There are many pop culture traditions at Christmastime that are important to me. Charlie Brown Christmas, of course—its power only grows over time. The Grinch (the original 60s cartoon). A Christmas...
View ArticleThe Funny Old Dark House
“Don’t big, empty houses scare you?” “Not me. I used to be in vaudeville.” That wry exchange is one of the many little asides that typifies The Cat and the Canary (1939), airing in prime time this...
View ArticleKeep an Eye Out for The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
For reasons known only to the movie gods, Hollywood embarked on a decades-long love affair with the idea of grabbing the rights to successful French-language comedies and remaking them for American...
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