Monster of the Day #1410
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Monster of the Day #1410

Sorry about yesterday, Imgur was acting wonky and wouldn't find my photos. This beastie appeared before, but by mistake in another bat creature's MotD. You guys immediately figured this out and commented on it so so I left the still there. It's a great puppet, though, and deserves it's own spotlight. Certainly a better…
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 1)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 1)

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2006 – Disney Channel, Salty Pictures, First Street Films Directed by Kenny Ortega Written by Peter Barsocchini NOTE: Comments are closed for the first four parts of this piece, just to keep them together. Please jump ahead to Part 5 if you wish to comment. Thanks! PROLOGUE I suppose that at…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 2)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 2)

ACT TWO We return to East High the next day, only to find that Sharpay has decided to start her morning by digging her karmic grave even deeper.  She and her brother are still unopposed for the leads in the musical.  Yet she’s brownnosing Ms. Darbus with the gift of a scented candle, as…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 3)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 3)

ACT THREE We return from our commercial break to find Chad harassing Troy in the library.  Like Coach Bolton before him, he has decided to skip the best point he could possibly make -- that Troy needs to live up to his role as team captain -- and instead blame Gabriella for Troy’s bizarre…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 4)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 4)

ACT FIVE The next morning, Kelsi is staring glumly at the callback sheet, which has a new announcement to the effect that callbacks have been rescheduled as Sharpay requested.  All our non-Evans main characters walk in a nearby door.  When Troy and Gabriella notice the expression on their petite pianist’s face, they look at…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 5)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 5)

FIXING IT IN POST Admittedly, High School Musical is not exactly the normal fare round these parts.  If you’re one of Ken’s regular readers, you probably haven’t watched the movie.  But just from the clips scattered throughout this review, you can see it has halfway-decent pr`oduction values -- for TV, anyway -- and some…
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Our Man Flint: Dead On Target (1976)
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Our Man Flint: Dead On Target (1976)

[aesop_image imgwidth="800px" img="http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1Evo3Zm.png" align="center" lightbox="on" caption="DEAD ON ARRIVAL would have been a far more apt title." captionposition="center"] I was really unprepared for how lousy this was. Not only as a purported sequel to the two James Coburn films of the 1960s. No, I mean just how bad it is technically. I had known there…
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Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)
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Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)

  John Carradine loved to act. Well, of course he did. Actors do, generally. However, John Carradine really loved to act. Born Richmond Reed Carradine, he redubbed his own name in homage to his friend and idol John Barrymore. Mr. Barrymore was both the greatest actor of his day and remains one of Hollywood’s…
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Fantomas III: The Murderous Corpse (1913)
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Fantomas III: The Murderous Corpse (1913)

The further I get into things, the want to go into details. Surely interested readers will want to seek out the Fantômas set (perhaps through your local library) and give it a look for themselves. That said, this third film, the only one to follow a traditional cliffhanger, is easily the most morbid and…
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