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Have I featured this before? VERY early stop animated dinosaur from the 1923 (!) Buster Keaton movie Three Ages. So that's two years before Willis O'Brien's Lost World was released. The goofy dinosaur design also looks forward to the Ringo Starr comedy Caveman. The dino appears very briefly, and just near the start of…

Wheee, another Monday. Those weekends sure fly by, and here in the midwest next weekend will be an hour shorter, so that that's fun. We're a few weeks away from Quiet Place 2 coming out. The first movie is on Amazon Prime, so I'll have to give that a look. The second film is…

Ahh, giant shark. That's the stuff.

It's a dinosaur and a skellington! It's like they made this cover for me.

The penultimate movie was Midnight Madness, a one time cable mainstay that inspired the 'treasure hunts' my own group of friends ran waaaaay back in high school. Not a great film, but a nice cheerful one. For the last film we (quite nearly) returned to old tradition. Back in the day B-Fest always ended…

Following Jason X we had a good long stretch of films that don't concern us here--Blackbelt II, Mother May I Sleep with Danger (not the lesbian vampire one), Flash Gordon, Airborne. Then we got Wasp Woman, 63 minutes of black and white Roger Corman cheapie goodness.

So...I've finally seen a Friday the 13th movie. (Obviously I did see Freddy vs Jason, but I mean a 'real' one.) Meh. Hey, remember when all the monsters--Jason, Leprechaun, Hellraiser, Dracula--were going to outer space?

Skipping over the perennial showing of Plan 9, we moved on to the pretty much forgotten Kull the Conqueror, starring Kevin Sorbo. Sorbo's one of those guys who comes off well in lighter stuff like Hercules but can't really project a darker anti-hero side. On the other hand, this version of Kull is surprisingly…