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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Robert Redford
Last post by ER - September 16, 2025, 09:34:17 PMIn the '90s A River Runs Through It, which he directed, was one of my favorite movies.[/i]
#72
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by ER - September 16, 2025, 09:30:12 PMQuote from: chainsaw midget on September 15, 2025, 03:22:48 PMWhen I was just a wee little young 'un and my age was still in single digits, I had a yellow plastic cup with a black owl design on it. It was The Owl Cup. If I got something to drink, it needed to be in my Owl Cup. I mom brought me a glass of water at bedtime, it had to be in the Owl Cup.That's a sweet story. Thanks for sharing it.
Then one day, I was practicing for T-ball and we put the ball I was going to swing at on top of the cup... and that was the end of the Owl Cup.
Just a few days ago, I happened to stumble upon them on e-bay. A set of 4 for $10.
And now I have my Owl Cup again.
#73
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Trevor - September 16, 2025, 09:27:43 PMQuote from: chainsaw midget on September 15, 2025, 03:22:48 PMWhen I was just a wee little young 'un and my age was still in single digits, I had a yellow plastic cup with a black owl design on it. It was The Owl Cup. If I got something to drink, it needed to be in my Owl Cup. I mom brought me a glass of water at bedtime, it had to be in the Owl Cup.
Then one day, I was practicing for T-ball and we put the ball I was going to swing at on top of the cup... and that was the end of the Owl Cup.
Just a few days ago, I happened to stumble upon them on e-bay. A set of 4 for $10.
And now I have my Owl Cup again.
☺️☺️🙏🐢
#74
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - September 16, 2025, 08:58:53 PMI wonder what would happen if somebody welded a leading link for on top of a girder fork & mounted it on their motorbike.......
#75
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - September 16, 2025, 06:52:20 PM"Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse" (2024)
Cartoonist and illustrator Art Spiegelman got his start in the underground comix scene of the 70s and created the Garbage Pail Kids in the 80s, but he's best known for Maus, his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel which used cats and mice to tell the story of his parents' experience during the Holocaust. An engrossing documentary that made me want to investigate more of the man's work
Cartoonist and illustrator Art Spiegelman got his start in the underground comix scene of the 70s and created the Garbage Pail Kids in the 80s, but he's best known for Maus, his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel which used cats and mice to tell the story of his parents' experience during the Holocaust. An engrossing documentary that made me want to investigate more of the man's work
#76
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - September 16, 2025, 06:50:07 PMMIDNIGHT LACE (1960):
This seemingly forgotten mystery/thriller rolled out in the year of PSYCHO but was pretty clearly (directly) inspired by Hitch's DIAL M FOR MURDER - with a phone-centered damsel-in-distress plot plus two of DMFM's supporting actors, Anthony Dawson and John Williams (not the composer). It's also got the major/twin drawbacks of DMFM (as well as many other Hitchcock films): a lead female character who mostly behaves foolishly or helplessly played by a vacuous blonde mannequin with meager acting ability. In MIDNIGHT LACE it's Doris Day (taking a rare break from fluffy romcoms) instead of Grace (bleh) Kelly, yet as often is the case in Hitchcock there are plentiful enough ancillary pleasures to make the film worth watching.
In an instantly gripping credits sequence, Day walks home through a dense London fog and is stalked/threatneed by an unseen high-pitched voice, which then begins making daily phone calls to her flat, promising her impending demise. Her wealthy businessman hubby (Rex Harrison) seems sympathetic and supportive enough, but almost everyone else that enters the frame sends off Prime Suspect klaxons: John Gavin as a dashing construction foreman with some admitted psychological problems, Roddy McDowell as a slimy young grifter, Harrison's gambling-addicted embezzling partner, an overly involved PYT neighbor, and creepy-looking Dawson as a gun-toting weirdo who's constantly hanging around the neighborhood. Even stiff-upper lipped Scotland Yard chief inspector Williams (yes, the exactly same role he played in DMFM) is awfully eager to cast doubts on Day's accounts - is he helping to gaslight her?
At last Day's "Aunt Bea" arrives from the States to comfort her. Yes, her name is "Aunt Bea"
and she's played by 55-year old Myrna Loy, who looks younger and foxier than Doris Day (and of course, being Myrna Loy, can really act). Surely Loy will take up Day's defense and save her from danger, right? Alas, by this point Day's character is acting like such an unreliable dingbat that the viewer can't blame her aunt or her husband or Scotland Yard for wondering if the whole affair is contrived purely out of Day's feverish imagination. Okay, Day's performance for much of the film doesn't help - she's flailing and rolling her eyes one scene, staring dully into the middle-distance the next, and so on. It's a good thing she's surrounded with so many pros: Loy, Harrison (clearly having a ball in a non-musical dramatic role), Williams, McDowell are all great... and how 'bout that John Gavin? In one year he does PSYCHO, SPARTACUS, and this movie, where once again he's got Elvis Presley good looks with Shatneresque intensity and gravitas. What happened to that guy's career???
I digress. The good news is, Day pulls it together just enough in the
authentically suspenseful and exciting finale to leave one's final impression of MIDNIGHT LACE a mostly positive one. The identity of Day's stalker isn't a shock when it's revealed, but my chief suspicions had been sufficiently misdirected to another character so at least the twist doesn't land w/ a complete thud. Also, MIDNIGHT LACE looks great in technicolor and particularly the lighting is extremely creative and moody. Actually, I thought this was at least as strong or stronger than most Hitchcocks I've seen.
3.5/5
Admittedly I'm only a moderate Hitchcock guy.
This seemingly forgotten mystery/thriller rolled out in the year of PSYCHO but was pretty clearly (directly) inspired by Hitch's DIAL M FOR MURDER - with a phone-centered damsel-in-distress plot plus two of DMFM's supporting actors, Anthony Dawson and John Williams (not the composer). It's also got the major/twin drawbacks of DMFM (as well as many other Hitchcock films): a lead female character who mostly behaves foolishly or helplessly played by a vacuous blonde mannequin with meager acting ability. In MIDNIGHT LACE it's Doris Day (taking a rare break from fluffy romcoms) instead of Grace (bleh) Kelly, yet as often is the case in Hitchcock there are plentiful enough ancillary pleasures to make the film worth watching.
In an instantly gripping credits sequence, Day walks home through a dense London fog and is stalked/threatneed by an unseen high-pitched voice, which then begins making daily phone calls to her flat, promising her impending demise. Her wealthy businessman hubby (Rex Harrison) seems sympathetic and supportive enough, but almost everyone else that enters the frame sends off Prime Suspect klaxons: John Gavin as a dashing construction foreman with some admitted psychological problems, Roddy McDowell as a slimy young grifter, Harrison's gambling-addicted embezzling partner, an overly involved PYT neighbor, and creepy-looking Dawson as a gun-toting weirdo who's constantly hanging around the neighborhood. Even stiff-upper lipped Scotland Yard chief inspector Williams (yes, the exactly same role he played in DMFM) is awfully eager to cast doubts on Day's accounts - is he helping to gaslight her?
At last Day's "Aunt Bea" arrives from the States to comfort her. Yes, her name is "Aunt Bea"
and she's played by 55-year old Myrna Loy, who looks younger and foxier than Doris Day (and of course, being Myrna Loy, can really act). Surely Loy will take up Day's defense and save her from danger, right? Alas, by this point Day's character is acting like such an unreliable dingbat that the viewer can't blame her aunt or her husband or Scotland Yard for wondering if the whole affair is contrived purely out of Day's feverish imagination. Okay, Day's performance for much of the film doesn't help - she's flailing and rolling her eyes one scene, staring dully into the middle-distance the next, and so on. It's a good thing she's surrounded with so many pros: Loy, Harrison (clearly having a ball in a non-musical dramatic role), Williams, McDowell are all great... and how 'bout that John Gavin? In one year he does PSYCHO, SPARTACUS, and this movie, where once again he's got Elvis Presley good looks with Shatneresque intensity and gravitas. What happened to that guy's career???I digress. The good news is, Day pulls it together just enough in the
authentically suspenseful and exciting finale to leave one's final impression of MIDNIGHT LACE a mostly positive one. The identity of Day's stalker isn't a shock when it's revealed, but my chief suspicions had been sufficiently misdirected to another character so at least the twist doesn't land w/ a complete thud. Also, MIDNIGHT LACE looks great in technicolor and particularly the lighting is extremely creative and moody. Actually, I thought this was at least as strong or stronger than most Hitchcocks I've seen.
3.5/5
Admittedly I'm only a moderate Hitchcock guy.
#77
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - September 16, 2025, 06:28:27 PMIL DEMONIO is truly great. POSSESSION is still my 3rd favorite film of all time, but IL DEMONIO shambled through pastoral settings so POSSESSION could run (amok) through a subway.
Okay, gimme a do-over. Dahlia Lavi spider-crawled in order for Linda Blair to spider-walk? No, that isn't it either - 'cause Lavi is doin' laps upside-down on all fours!
Okay, gimme a do-over. Dahlia Lavi spider-crawled in order for Linda Blair to spider-walk? No, that isn't it either - 'cause Lavi is doin' laps upside-down on all fours!
#78
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - September 16, 2025, 05:37:15 PMIl Demonio (1963) - I clicked on this because the lady on the cover was hot and actually thought it was going to be in Spanish. In reality, it's Italian and isn't a Bava esque horror movie but is an excellent, basic but brilliant film that reminded me of Pasolini or something. The IMDB description of it being about a "sexually uninhibited woman" or something is not accurate. It's pretty much a combination of fancy pants high art Italian film and horror Italian film, leaning towards the former.
A hot but crazy seeming lady in a Italian rural peasant existence tries to use a hex of some kind to retain a lover who is going to get arranged married. It's never clear whether she actually possesses any powers or anything. This starts a serious of events which leads to her becoming public enemy number one in the superstitious village. At one point they take burning sticks and attempt to "burn the air" where she walked to purify it against Satan. That's pretty superstitious! It's not to say there was some massive "twist", but I just had no idea how it was going to end leading up to it, which impressed me.
5/5 I will certainly revisit this one
A hot but crazy seeming lady in a Italian rural peasant existence tries to use a hex of some kind to retain a lover who is going to get arranged married. It's never clear whether she actually possesses any powers or anything. This starts a serious of events which leads to her becoming public enemy number one in the superstitious village. At one point they take burning sticks and attempt to "burn the air" where she walked to purify it against Satan. That's pretty superstitious! It's not to say there was some massive "twist", but I just had no idea how it was going to end leading up to it, which impressed me.
5/5 I will certainly revisit this one
#79
Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by lester1/2jr - September 16, 2025, 05:11:18 PMI Plead the Filth
#80
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
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