Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

Drawn back in the day when Coca Cola had cocaine it in, apparently.

AT&T seems to be doing work in the area, so we'll see if my Internet goes down again like it did yesterday. (Most annoying because I don't have a cell phone, and my land line is through my Internet connection (!), meaning I can't call the problem in until I get to work. Which…

By Monday we were down to Sandy, me and Chad R and Chad (the Rev). We started the day with German/Italian Screams in the Night, basically a hybrid krimi/giallo that kept threatening to cross over into the supernatural. It was OK, but honestly I had to look up the title off of Chad R's…

Is Fritz Lang the greatest director nobody talks about (maybe it's just in the States.) Arthur had never seen M--kids today--which might be Lang's masterpiece. I'm sure I'd put it in my top 20 films ever list. Anyway, you can never watch that one too much, so give it another look sometime. Next we…

I featured the host of Tales from the Third Dimension yesterday. The film features (duh) three tales, only the first of which is monster oriented. This really had the feel of episodes from an aborted TV pitch strung together into a film. It's better than the actually-narrated-by-Rod-Serling Encounters with the Unknown, anyway. Although the…

Galaxy Jane and Jaime had to leave on Sunday. The rest of us started the day by watching Tales from the Third Dimension (yes, as indicated by the still above, in 3-D), an anthology with a Cryptmaster like puppet host voiced by a guy doing Rod Serling. The big episode was about a grandmother…

OK, so after Invisible Invaders we watched a really obscure Italian film called The Machine (or Camera) that Kills Bad People, which is kind of a more light-hearted precursor to Death Note. Then it was Sandy's shorts (Mason and I had a horrible short but decided to hold it for when we had a…

Sandy kicked Saturday off with an old poverty row murder flick called The Mystery of the 13th Guest. It's a weirdly structured film but like most such films, literal B-Films in the original sense, it was short and moved quickly and went down quite smoothly. It didn't feature any of the down on their…

After the quiz (I won the Steel Book edition of Ultra Q...thanks, Chad R!) we headed out to dinner. My favorite slide on the quiz, which was about movie aliens, was the electronic microscope slide of the virus from The Andromeda Strain. Of course, that might be because you love the delightfully obscure ones…

So we finished the day shift with our traditional TV/shorts/quiz slot. Sandy showed the first episode of Gerry Anderson's Stingray (above), while I showed the episode of Manimal where Simon MacCorklandale exhibiting some highly dubious kung fu skills. James Hong is there and is given nothing to do. The scene where MacCorklandale buffs his…