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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Monster of the Day #1386 (Update)
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Monster of the Day #1386 (Update)

One of the reasons Universal reigned supreme with horror was that while the larger majors all wanted a piece of that sweet horror box office, they were clearly embarrassed to be making such fare. Hell, even in the '50s Jack Warner went out of his way to attempt to sabotage Them!, which despite his…
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Monster of the Day #1385
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Monster of the Day #1385

Let's try more obscure '40s films. I'm sure I'll do some repeats. Again, I have to whip up a records of these things one day. Anyhoo, these are generally cheaper films, and so the monsters will usually be inexpensive, briefly seen and mostly just guys in make-up. This first one is a deviation from…
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Monster of the Day #1382
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Monster of the Day #1382

This is the one I saw over the weekend. I wasn't even aware of it, but it's available on Netflix. It's not as good as the guy's best film, but that's a legitimate candidate for the greatest film of the last 20 years, so I'm no surprised. It's pretty good, though.
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Monster of the Day #1381
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Monster of the Day #1381

The film ends with the hero literally fist fighting Satan, who as you can see was played by Liberace. You don't see that sort of thing very often.
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