Top Gun (1986) – First time watching it in over 30 years, and I had forgotten pretty much everything except the “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” scene. Apparently, the message is the chicks will find you irresistible if you’re a pushy horn-doggin’ showoff who happens to be Tom Cruise. This is the movie that “made”…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Oh yeah, this! I hit the end of my sketchbook, so that threw me off my game. No more sketches of the day until the next one’s full.
Movies Seen Recently: One of My Wives is Missing, A Gunfighter’s Pledge, Forbidden Planet
One of My Wives is Missing (1976) – The title unfortunately makes it sound like a comedy, but it’s actually a mystery/thriller TV-movie based on a stage play called Trap for a Single Man (and my daughters have seen a production under the title Catch Me If You Can). Jack Klugman is a small-town police…
Movies Seen Recently: Wrongfully Accused, Screamers, John Wick 3
Wrongfully Accused (1998) – Leslie Nielsen in a spoof of The Fugitive, with Richard Crenna playing the Tommy Lee Jones part. Along the way there are other callouts and sight gags referencing Braveheart, North by Northwest, The Seven-Year Itch, and plenty of others. If you like this kind of movie, this is the kind of…
Movies Seen Recently: The Resonator: Miskatonic U, Interstellar, 2019: After the Fall of New York
The Resonator: Miskatonic U (2021) – I love to see Charles Band’s Full Moon production empire return to its roots — in this case, back to the Lovecraftverse spawned by Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986), re-telling the story of Crawford Tillinghast as a university student continuing his father’s work on the dimensional “resonator” which…