Monthly Archives: April 2010
Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 11: Interview with Vincent Arcaro, How to Train Your Dragon, and Clash of the Titans
6 ‘n 90. Da Man reviews six films in 90 seconds.
The Islander is where guests are interviewed by Nancy and asked to pick the ten films they would take with them to a desert island. Nancy’s guest this week is Vince Arcaro, founder, president, and executive producer of Dark Light Pictures.
After watching How to Train Your Dragon, it’s difficult not to ask yourself the question, “Are the only films that don’t insult an audience’s intelligence being made for kids?”
Clash of the Titans. The Misfits come to a unanimous decision: It stinks!
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Da Man’s Fun Size Reviews
THE DAMNED UNITED. Movies with damn in the title — they’re a small but blasphemous bunch. You got your damn musicals (Damn Yankees), you got your damn historical adventures (Damn the Defiant!), and you got your damn horror flicks (Village … Continue reading
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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 10: Mascots Taken from the Movies, Alice in Wonderland, and Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
Admiral (It’s a trap!) Ackbar, a team mascot? Before any final decisions are made, the Misfits have some suggestions of their own to make about which movie characters would make a good mascot.
6 ‘n 90! Da Man reviews six movies in ninety seconds.
Robert Culp and Corey Haim remembered.
We’re late, we’re late, for a very important date. So put on your breastplate, helmet, and shield, because we’re going to…Wonderland?
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster. A lost episode of Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds? Allen: What’s your take on the current economic situation, Mr. Frankenstein? Frankenstein: …. Allen: And your point of view on this, Spacemonster? Spacemonster: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! (rips off Allen’s head) Or is it a low budget, sci-fi film packed with stock footage and babes in bikinis? Maybe, it’s just an early, blatant example of product placement, shilling for Vespas.
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Holiday (audio review) Plus Backstory: Gertrude Sanford Legendre
Back in my years as a teenaged Cinema Misfit, I gobbled up any film that was made in the 1930s…romances, musicals, screwball comedies, gangster movies, even Paul Muni films…I saw and loved them all. Now, as I move into the sunset of my life (or at least the mid-afternoon), my ardor for some of these flicks may have waned a bit (I’m looking at you, “Bringing Up Baby”), but “Holiday” has always retained a hold on my heart. Continue reading
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