Movies Seen Recently: Hundra, Cube, Invitation to a Gunfighter
Hundra (1983) – A pseudo-feminist sword-and-sorcery flick? A nomadic all-women tribe (whose members often visit random men for procreation purposes — they toss back the boy-children) is attacked by a bunch of male barbarians. It doesn’t say much for the idea of the self-sufficient grrl-power tribe that they’re completely slaughtered, all but Hundra (Laurene Langdon),…
Repeated shootings at a presidential candidate aren’t normal.
The title is one of those sentiments you should never have to argue for, but here we are. This past Sunday, in the immediate social-media wake of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, I saw the perfect response expressed on X: “I’ve voting for the guy they keep trying to kill.” That needs to…
Movies Seen Recently: The Gateway, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Kung Fu Master
The Gateway, aka Curtain (2015) – The premise seems ready-made for a surreal comedy: A woman moves alone into a cheap apartment, and finds that her shower curtain keeps disappearing. Finally setting a camera up to observe it, she finds that it’s being sucked into… nowhere. But it’s not played for laughs. Danni (Danni Smith)…
Movies Seen Recently: Trollhunter, Flesh & Blood, Predestination
Trollhunter (2010) – A terrific mockumentary about three Norwegian college filmmakers who think they’re tracking down and documenting a poacher — a mysterious outdoorsman who parks his shabby camper in various campgrounds and drives out into the woods and night… But nope, he’s actually the Norwegian government’s one-and-only troll manager, hunting down and dispatching trolls…
Television Through the Wire!
I found this left as a forgotten bookmark (not mine, I’ve never been to Cleveland) in a 1983 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: One NBC affiliate, two ABC, one CBS, three PBS, and four independent. Plus C-Span, USA, MTV, the Weather Channel, ESPN, CNN, and all the filler that nobody ever…