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#11
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:05:20 PM


What did you do when you went to Japan?
#12
Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Walter Koenig
Last post by Alex - Today at 12:00:06 PM
My favourite roles of his were Moontrap and as Alfred Bestor in Babylon 5. Rest well sir.
#13
Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Walter Koenig
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 11:49:48 AM
90 years is an epic run.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Walter Koenig
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 11:46:11 AM
And feel free to sit here, Walter...

#15
Press Releases and Film News / RIP Walter Koenig
Last post by Trevor - Today at 11:23:55 AM
Star Trek actor Walter Koenig has passed away at the age of 90.

A new course heading has been laid in for you, sir.

Second star to the right and straight on until morning.

RIP 🥺😢🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️🖖🖖🖖
#16
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:25:57 AM
66.) DOCTOR SOCRATES (1935) - watched it earlier this year - clearly it left little impression upon me!
#17
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:32:17 AM
#18
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:13:39 AM
1. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
2. Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
3. Doctor Dolittle
4. Dr. Butcher M.D.
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Dr. Strange (2016)
7. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
8. Doctor Detroit
9. Dr. No
10. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
11. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
13. Dr Giggles
14. CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967)
15. Dr. T & the Women
16. DOC HOLLYWOOD (1991)
17. Doctor in the House (1954)
18. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
19. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
20. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
21. Doctor Sleep (2019)
22. Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
23. Doctor Death, Seeker of Souls (1973)
24. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
25. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
26. The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu (1923)
27. The German Doctor (2013)
28, Docteur Françoise Gaillard (1976)
29. Doctor X
27. Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)
28. Dr. Plague
29. Doctor Vlimmen (1978)
30. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
31. The Demented Doctor
32. Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Movie
33. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.
34. The Good Doctor (2011)
35. Doctor Faustus (1967)
36. Doc Savage: Man of Bronze
37. Young Doctors in Love (1982)
38. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
39. Doc Holliday (2023)
40. La folie du docteur Tube (1915)
41. The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
42. Dokter Pulder zaait papavers (1975)
43. Doctor Glas
44. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
45. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
46. DOCTEUR (2019)
47. A DOCTOR OF LOVE (1977)
48. Docteur Justice (1975)
49. Tammy & The Doctor
50. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
51. JFK: What the Doctors Saw
52. Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
53. What's Up Doc? (1972)*
54. A DOCTOR DESPITE HIS NOSE
55. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
56. Docteur Petiot (1990)
57. Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
58. Doctor Sibelius (1962)
59. The Secret of Doctor Grinberg (2020)
60. DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS (1985)
61. The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992)
62. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
63. The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
64. THE DOCTOR (1991)

and

65. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
#19
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:01:27 AM
JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (2025): The story of Lilly, who began as a serious scientist studying dolphin communication but, driven by experiments with isolation tanks and LSD, gradually drifted into fringe theories (believing himself in contact with the extraterrestrials of the titular office). Lilly is a fascinating character (he was the basis for the scientists in Mike Nicholls' THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN and Ken Russell's ALTERED STATES); this nonjudgmental documentary by Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens covers the bases. 3/5.
#20
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:42:02 AM
GENUINE: THE TRAGEDY OF A VAMPIRE (1920):
Robert Weine made this after the boring FEAR and right before the amazing CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. He was clearly on some good $#!t in 1920! GENUINE is largely a melodrama but it's cranked up to 11 and the scenic & costume design provides a clear segue to the grandeur of CALIGARI.

As with so many films of the era, GENUINE also has problematic representation, though it appears semi-aware of those problems. A skinny old bald man in a black trenchcoat (who looks like Richard O'Brien in the 90s or Max Shreck as Count Orlok in 1922) likes to frequent slave markets and purchase trafficked foreigners.  :lookingup: His butler is an African in a loincloth and headdress who carries a tribal dagger (at least played by a real black dude). One day the old bald man purchases Genuine, a white-looking woman who speaks English and belonged to some defeated "tribe". (Romani?) Baldy brings her home and locks her in a dungeon, ostensibly for her own protection. As it turns out, it was more for his protection, 'cause once Genuine busts loose, all heck busts loose with her.

Genuine has crazy New Wave hair like Siouxsie Sioux or young Helena Bonham. She also (somehow) has a full wardrobe of goth-looking outfits that appear fashionably rent/worn by their designer. (They aren't, upon closer inspection - it's black patterns on white fabric - but they still look cool in wide shot.) Also, Genuine's a total whack-job w/ no regard for the health or well-being of anyone around her. Today we'd call her a sociopath, a narcissist, or a Borderline PD case. In 1920 this kind of lady was called a "vampire". FWIW, she does hypnotize men and she does drink blood from a goblet in one scene.

The sets are cool (though not as cool as those in CALIGARI) and one of Genuine's "victims" has cool Crispin Glover hair and a Hot Topic outfit.  :bouncegiggle: Another victim freaks out near the end and staggers around gesticulating like Heinrich at the end of POSSESSION.  :thumbup: GENUINE is 88 minutes long and probably could've been 60, yet it was worth a watch!    3.5/5