Mar

20

Worse than “Reign of the Gargoyles”?

March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Howard the Duck.
Why? As a comic I’m sure it had its moments– I remember thinking so at the time, though I’ll be damned if I can remember what any of them were. I hoped to see the film just… to see what they did with it. Then I found I couldn’t sit through it.
Ooof.
Stranger than the […]

Mar

19

Reign of the Gargoyles: Reign of Fire Meets the Empty Mirror

March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sci-Fi Channel will seemingly greenlight just about any crap that comes into their heads… There must be a whole cottage industry churning out crap like “Reign of the Gargoyles” just for the Sci Fi Original Picture market. Nazis use Gargoyles as “flying monsters to rule the sky”? “Unleash Hell” indeed.

Mar

12

Matt Helm: The Ambushers

March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

No time for a full-out post, but here’s a thought for the day: The hell of 500 channels is filled with reruns of Matt Helm movies. Who the hell greenlighted any of these movies?!?
James Bond was half-Scots, half-Swiss, but I’m stranded watching archaic spy spoof The Ambushers and Dean Martin’s Helm spyspoof is some kind of bizarre […]

Mar

8

Quickie: The Empty Mirror (a.k.a. “Inside Hitler’s Head”)

March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Channel surfing again, when I should be working on something else… I come across The Empty Mirror – a particularly bizarre little fantasy about what might have cycled through Hitler’s mind after the war was over, had he survived… and the dictation (by a great dictator, aptly) of a rambling new manuscript. All the top […]