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Posted on 05.24.09 by Widge @ 6:08 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  So there's plenty of opportunities to see movies on the big screen in Atlanta. I'm not just talking about stuff like Gone With the Wind, no. I'm talking about the healthy horror-loving community that we have here. There's a group called the Silver Scream Spook Show that puts on a film each month in the badass Plaza Theatre, which is an old single-converted-into-a-double cinema house. Generally, I'm too damn busy to make it. For example, a little ways back they showed Demons--and you can imagine my heartbreak when I couldn't see a movie about infectious demons running amok in an old cinema--in an old cinema. But when I heard they were doing Creature From the Black Lagoon...in 3-D...well, we carved out time. You simply have to for a flick like that. Especially since somehow I didn't even know there was a 3-D version out there. I don't remember that from my Universal Legacy edition of the film or its commentary, so I'll need to refresh my memory when I watch it again this Halloween. So this was my first Spook Show performance, and it was an absolute hoot. Hosted by Professor Morte, there's also his sidekick Retch, along with the lovely Pandora (whose Creature-inspired outfit was fantastic) and Persephone (who sang a Creature tribute to the tune of "The Rainbow Connection"--also fantastic). They also enlisted the help of the wildlife-chasing witch doctor Mumbobo, who took them to the location of Creature's production in a special film. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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Posted on 05.22.09 by Widge @ 8:19 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  As promised in my previous report on the first evening's entertainment where Cinematic Titanic brought their madness live to the stage, there was a second evening of movie riffing. And seriously, people who are still awaiting the tour to hit your hometown or somewhere nearby: do both nights. That is my advice to you. Because as funny as the crew tackling East Meets Watts was...well, let me put it to you this way. Joel revealed when they finished mauling the movie that this was their first time on Tiki Island--and if this was a rough draft, then when this show finally makes it to DVD, it will go down as a classic in riffdom. I do not make this claim lightly. But we were laughing our asses off pretty much non-stop. And with the audience being even more engaged than the previous crowd, it was like an ever-increasing whirlwind of hilarity. And you could tell the crew on stage were happy with the results. We in the audience were freaking ecstatic. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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Posted on 05.20.09 by ScottC @ 2:19 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.   Film: Written by: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Michael Kane, and William Roberts based on characters created by George W. Trendle Released by: Lions Gate My Advice: Avoid It John Reid (Spilsbury), a newly minted lawyer from back East, goes back West to help his brother, a Texas Ranger, bring some justice to this lawless land. John is no stranger to the savagery the West can give when as a boy his parents were murdered by the savage outlaw, Cavendish (Lloyd). Now he and his brother ride out with a posse to bring him to justice. But it turns out to be a trap and everyone except John is massacred. John is saved by Tonto (Horse), an Indian who helped him after his parents were killed. Now John takes on the guise of the masked man to stop Cavendish's fiendish plans and bring law and order to the Old West. This is The Legend of the Lone Ranger. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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Posted on 05.17.09 by Rox @ 8:40 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  This past Saturday, I decided to donate a small amount of coin to the Nuts on the Road cause. That coin would have been ear marked to go see Star Trek or something. It is not like I am a cheap person and yes I can donate and see a film, but in the true sense of donations giving it should come as a small sacrifice of some sort to help others. (Widge's note: Thank you, Rox! Mwaaa!) After listening to the afternoon edition of Nuts on the Road and seeing the new addition to the Technocave secret hideout I ventured out to my Five Points to run an errand or two. I stopped at a store that is right next to our newly renovated 5 Points Theatre. There was a crowd milling about as a feature film from Jacksonville's 2009 Film Festival was getting out. Living in a small section of Jacksonville in the historic area of Riverside Avondale area is pretty much like a small town where one runs into folk you know all the time. Today was no exception. I chatted with an acquaintance I know who was very gracious in giving me a screening pass for the Saturday Bloody Saturday Horror Short Films screening. What goes around comes around. I gave a gift in good faith and through some good karma I was given a ticket for a movie showing. So I did not miss out on a movie night. Wheel of Fortune if you like. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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Posted on 05.16.09 by Widge @ 12:52 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  Larry Chin has come to the United States in search of his brother. He finds himself shortly thereafter handcuffed to Stud Brown and they do make good their escape. Thus begins one of the most fu-less fu films in the history of...well, fu. The film is not so much punctuated as smothered in ellipses as characters seem to spend most of their time walking places and not doing much of anything, but looking vaguely retrotastic as appropriately frightening music plays. Baddie James Hong (Needcoffee fave and looking really scary in 70s mode...see below) gets so little respect that at one point they forget to mic him. And the fight sequences are so boring that you wish they'd go into full-on Jason Bourne Shakicam mode just to give us all something to look at. While this sound like the perfect thing I'd watch at home, why would anyone in the right mind pay money to see this on the big screen in a real theatre? Because just like with any bad movie, the fun is in the people you see it with. Here at the site we've been saying for the past eleven years that any really egregiously bad film should not be seen unless MST3K does a show on it. With Cinematic Titanic Live, you're basically getting to hang out with five of the coolest movie riffers in our poor sliver of reality: Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl, and J. Elvis Weinstein. So you get to watch the masters at work as they vivisect this poor unsuspecting film before your very eyes. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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