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Ken Recommends Black Friday sales on Amazon…

Time sensitive, obviously. I'm going to highlight a couple of anime series (I know, sorry), because Amazon has a zillion things on radical sale today and there's too much normal content to try to get to much of it. OK, OK, I will say you could do FAR worse than the fantastic '50s TV…
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Watch Party tomorrow….

I should have done one last week. However, I'd just returned from Texas, and had developed a bit of a travel cold, and frankly just forgot. Then I forgot to mention doing one this week earlier than today. Still, I think I'll do one tomorrow, and if there's a really small attendance available, I'll…
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Monster of the Day #3309
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Monster of the Day #3309

We wrapped out with our traditional (at least in the ballpark of a) T-Rex movie, with Harryhausen's classic Valley of Gwangi. This was the last classic we hadn't gotten around to after 18 years. I'm starting to think maybe we should find a new theme for the capper once we hit out 21st Fest.…
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Monster of the Day #3308
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Monster of the Day #3308

So weirdly I myself showed Conquest because it looked goofy (it was made during that period when Italian sword and sorcery films were incorporating Star Wars-y stuff, like the Wookies above, ala the Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies) and I had just bought a heavily discounted copy of the Blu Ray. The film still looks…
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Monster of the Day #3307
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Monster of the Day #3307

We finished up the day shift with Virgins from Hell, a pretty fun and predictably crazy Indonesian action flick about a wonderfully garish female biker gang fighting a jungle crimelord. The first and third acts are great, the middle section, which tries as hard as it can to be sleazy in a country that…
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Monster of the Day #3306
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Monster of the Day #3306

Sandy decided to bust out his William Grefe box set--we live in an age of wonders, and were just glad he didn't bust out his Al Adamson box set (again). In the end he opted for Whiskey Mountain, a Hickploitation film starring Christopher George and his wife, frequent costar Susan Day George. Or so…
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Monster of the Day #3305
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Monster of the Day #3305

Whew! Back to the real world, and sadly, a Texas-sized pile of make up work at the office. Oh, well. I'll talk about the off-Fest showings later, but we started T-Fest 18 with a cheese classic, The X From Outer Space. Needless to say, it was met with great enthusiasm, and remained one of…
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Sorry everyone…

I didn't meant to disappear like that. I could take the easy excuse and say I was recovering from watching Staying Alive on Amazon Prime. It...wasn't that good. Really, though, I was just elliptically aware that this weekend's T-Fest was fast approaching. And I barely planned nor prepared for it. So this week that's…
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Monster of the Day #3304
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Monster of the Day #3304

In honor of Godzilla Day yesterday, Toho posted on the Godzilla Channel on YouTube a new short, Godzilla vs Gigan Rex. It's very fun, and it's always thrilling to hear Ifukube's music. It's also got a great neato Godzilla design. They quickly pulled down the Godzilla vs Hedorah short earlier this year, so watch…
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