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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…

Mr. Rational July 4, 201614

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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…

Ken Begg July 4, 201520

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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…

Ken Begg May 31, 201535

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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…

Ken Begg March 2, 20154

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Fantomas II: Juve vs. Fantomas (1913)

Click here to read about the previous film, Fantomas in the Shadow of the Guillotine. With our cast introduced in the first film, our second hour-long feature can hit the ground running. As the title indicates, our hero moves closer to center stage this time. Indeed, he’s joins Fantômas with his own opening montage…

Ken Begg March 1, 2015No Comments

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Fantomas in the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)

Before there was Mabuse, there was Fantômas. The thing about movies is that they haven’t been around that long. Although a majority of the very earliest films are lost, you can still largely go back to the beginnings of cinema and see the foundations for the great art form of the 20th century being…

Ken Begg February 28, 201512

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Halloween (1978)

I won’t embarrass myself by trying to express the sort of warm human emotions I have little facility for. I will simply note that the comradeship of the various members of the Cabal, past and present, through the last 15 years has been one of the great blessings of my life. To that can…

Ken Begg November 27, 201439

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Swept Away (2003)

In one obvious respect, Madonna is an atypical focus for this roundtable. She has, after all, starred or costarred in a dozen movies over the years. Not for her the route of, say, Tony Bennett in The Oscar, who gave a performance so famously awful that he never worked as an actor again. One…

Ken Begg August 29, 201440

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The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)

1981 was shaping up to be a big year for werewolf fans. Long neglected except for cheesy drive-in fare like Werewolves on Wheels or The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, lycanthropy was due to return to the silver screen in a big way. Fans remain divided on the results. John Landis’ American Werewolf in London…

Ken Begg February 25, 201327

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Zombi 3 (1988)

Zombi 3 is perhaps the most famous film Bruno Mattei is associated with. This might seem sort of ironic, given that he is responsible for somewhat less than half the film. Mr. Mattei stepped in after the original director, Lucio Fulci, became so ill he couldn’t continue the project. And therein lies the tale.…

Ken Begg November 26, 201246