Sunday, November 29, 2020

What a disaster: There's got to be a morning after


THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1972
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoiler alert: a little bit more than moderate, a little bit less than high

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Opie on Opie


HILLBILLY ELEGY

2020
Directed by Ron Howard
Written by Vanessa Taylor (based on the book by J.D. Vance)

Spoiler alert: man, this guy is doin' fine

Friday, November 27, 2020

Cardboard Science: Challenger of the unknown


THE LOST WORLD

1960
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Charles Bennett and Irwin Allen

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

What a disaster: Nobody dies on my airplane, not me, not him, not them—not even you, you son of a bitch


SKYJACKED

1972
Directed by John Guillermin
Written by Stanley R. Greenberg (based on the novel Hijacked by David Harper)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Monday, November 23, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Who cares if they've got a plot or not when they've got a lot of dames?


DAMES

1934
Directed by Ray Enright
Written by Robert Lord and Delmer Daves

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Moon blinked


OVER THE MOON

2020
Directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs
Written by Audrey Wells

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

What a disaster: Crystal healing


THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

1971
Directed by Robert Wise
Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Michael Crichton)

Spoiler alert: a little bit higher than moderate, but there's no way to talk about it without at least alluding to the ending

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Blonde Sunday


I MARRIED A WITCH

1942
Directed by Rene Clair
Written by Robert Pirosh, Mark Connelly, Dalton Trumbo, Andre Rigaud, and Rene Clair (based on the novel The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith and Norman H. Matson)

Spoiler alert: well, the title's a dead giveaway

Friday, November 13, 2020

Hoping that her next leap will be the leap home


POSESSESSOR

2020
Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg

Spoiler alert: moderate

Monday, November 9, 2020

Census Bloodbath: For me to poop on


MADHOUSE
aka And When She Was Bad aka There Was a Little Girl

Halloween might be cancelled, but it's still October but it's still early November, for which I apologize, though now that the true terror and pain is over, perhaps we can catch up.  Either way, it's still within the general timeframe prescribed for that mix of peanut butter and chocolate we call The Switcheroo, with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture and Alternate Ending doing my weird, gross, nostalgic 1950s sci-fi thing for a spell, whilst I do some nice, wholesome slashers from the brightest days of the 1980s.

1981
Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis
Written by Stephen Blakeley, Peter Sheperd, Roberto Gandus, and Ovidio G. Assonitis

Spoiler alert: moderate