6 ‘n 90! Da Man reviews six movies in ninety seconds.
Speedy Gonzales–racing to a theater near you. Oh, and don’t forget about Marvin the Martian. He’s on his way to earth so he can destroy… Christmas?
The Islander. Nancy concludes her interview with Vincent Arcaro, founder, president, and executive producer of Dark Light Pictures. What will his final movie picks be to take with him on a desert island?
Unpublished Playboy interview with Stanley Kubrick/Bernard Knowles.
Interview by Anonymous.
Early in 1968, Playboy magazine contacted me about the possibility of interviewing Stanley Kubrick. It was an offer I eagerly accepted. 2001: A Space Odyssey had just opened, and critics, whether they loved the film or hated it, were united on one point: nothing like it had ever been seen on a movie screen before.
But was that really true?
In 1965, with little or no fanfare, a movie containing many of the same elements as 2001 had been released. I was in complete ignorance of this film, but by the end of my interview with “Mr. Kubrick,” I would learn more about it and the film’s director, Bernard Knowles, than I ever cared to know.
6 ‘n 90. Da Man reviews six films in ninety 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 Vincent 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?”
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 of the Damned, Queen of the Damned). Now, add to the list: The Damned United. And, no, it’s not a movie about a bunch of airline passengers stuck on the tarmac for three hours.
Michael Sheen plays an English soccer coach who takes a winning team from first to last place. It’s sort of like The Natural, except with soccer, and not only do they lose the big game, they never even make it to it. Hey, happy endings are overrated. Anyway, this is a damn good story about the loss of loyalty and friendship. I’m in!
Admiral (It’s a trap!) Ackbar, a team mascot? Before any final decisions are made, the Misfits have some suggestions 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.
Back in my years as a teenaged Cinema Misfit, I gobbled up any film that was made in the 1930′s…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. Here are some of the reasons why:
The Misfits take a final look back at the January and February movies. How did the big ego/small expectation, almost direct-to-video, and test-screening flops do?
6 ‘n 90. Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds.
The Islander Part 2. Nancy concludes her interview with character actor James Karen, who shares his final movie picks to take with him on a desert island.
MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. With a title like Midnight Meat Train, I was hoping for a little softcore action, but no, it wasn’t to be (sadly, the filmmakers chose a different direction to go in). No. No. No. No. No. What we have here is an OK movie that might have received a theatrical release with a different title. Course the stupid ending doesn’t help, and the film could definitely do with a little more, shall we say, female meat. Lucky for Midnight Meat Train, they don’t grade movies like they do meat, ’cause no way is this thing getting the USDA Choice Prime rating. It’s more like ground chuck–a day or two from expiration. Still…I’m in!
Join the Misfits for an evening at the Oscars — or anyway in front of a big screen TV, watching the Oscars. All the predictability and tedium of the original three and a half hour show in less than a third of the time. It’s a show Lou enthusiastically describes as “nice.”
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Up. Maybe we’re just a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies who missed the bandwagon, but even so, nothing is going to stop us from putting in our two cents about Up. It’s great! So there.
6 ‘n 90. Da Man reviews six films in ninety 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 character actor James Karen. Among his many TV appearances are roles on Seinfeld and The Larry Sanders Show, and on the big screen he has appeared in Poltergeist, The Return of the Living Dead, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster, and many other films.
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