Posts by Ken Begg

This is how I feel every time I'm forced to get into my Google account. IT also looks like a typically dumb Hitchhiker episode. Especially the Klaus Kinski one with the homicidal stereo system. Watch Party this Friday. Nearly Christmas! Crazy.

THRILLING WONDER STORIES...The Sci-Fi Magazine for People who Love Transparent Travel Bubbles! By the way, if that's the new, gender-swapped Clarice Savage, Jr., sign me up. That woman can wear some jodhpurs. Happy Friday, everyone! Watch something stupid this weekend.

Look, I get that magazines are going to imitate popular movies. But really? You couldn't have ripped off Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure a little less obviously?

Best...pet shop...ever....

Hmmm. I'm intrigued, but am I 15 cents intrigued?

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…

We ended Friday night, the eve of T-Fest 18 (already covered) with another foreign vampire film. This was one of China's uniformly marvelous hopping vampire films, Mr. Vampire 4. You just cannot go wrong with that series, merging horror, comedy, martial arts, a soupcon of romance and lots and lots of fascinating Chinese sorcery.…