Month: December 2022

The watch party last Friday featured Bride and the Beast, most famous (among a certain elite demographic) for having been scripted by Ed Wood Jr. If not directed by him, which no doubt helped in making it fairly competent technically. It also, sadly, lacks the rich, convoluted baroqueness of Wood's usual dialog. However, in…

After Cat and the Canary Sandy busted out the first episode of the latest Russian version of Sherlock Holmes, which proved to be quite fun. It's period (and one of the few shows where things especially in the slum areas look realistically filthy). It's about as faithful as, say, the Cumberbatch Holmes, by which…

So Sunday, no monsters. We had such a blast with the Tod Slaughter movie on Friday that we started with a few more of those, Crimes at the Dark House and Murder in the Red Barn. Just bottled fun. Then we watch the first 15 minutes of Treasure of the Four Crowns, which is…