Catching up on Olympics stuff and hey, they played fIREHOSE’s “Brave Captain” after the men’s street skateboarding final! #aside
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Date: July 2024
Catching up on Olympics stuff and hey, they played fIREHOSE’s “Brave Captain” after the men’s street skateboarding final! #aside
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Rugby sevens is my new favourite sport: it’s fast paced, high scoring and, best of all, a whole match is done within 20 minutes! #aside
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Finally nabbed a good deal for something I’ve had on my Discogs wantlist for a bit #aside
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So, this Olympic opening ceremony… everyone put in a lot of effort, except the TV director who should be sacked #aside
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Subbed to discovery+ for the Olympics and we need quite the convoluted set-up to watch it because they can’t be arsed providing an Xbox app in Ireland #aside
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New song from Mamaleek, with a video directed by SST alumnus and Werner Herzog’s favourite axe-wielding scuba diver, Henry Kaiser #video
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Let’s be honest, this one drags a lot when the fire takes hold and it puts much of the drama on pause to document the procedural aspects of fighting such a deadly blaze (and Newman and McQueen roll up their sleeves as the men in charge). That adds a lot of valuable verisimilitude, such that beyond the fashions and decor that are decidedly of the time, this hasn’t dated very much at all. But obviously what’s sacrificed there is spectacle: everything you see on the screen is technically impressive, but not all of it is particularly exciting. They wouldn’t make it like this today, that’s for sure. I’m not certain they’d make it any better, either. More…
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Big Trouble in the South China Sea, more or less. Mostly less. The action is appropriately silly, and the practical effects gloriously gloopy. The CGI, however, is rotten. More…
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One small thing #AEW could do for me is merge the International and Continental titles. They’re useless as is (especially the latter) so make them one championship and make it mean something #aside
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I feel like this is one of those ‘the director wanted one thing but Golan and Globus wanted another’ Cannon flicks because the title and the main plot conceit are garbage but the production design and cinematography are actually fantastic. Nearly everyone looks like a junkyard New Romantic in an underground industrial nightmare shot in moody browns and blues, the kind of Brazil-nodding look that Jean-Pierre Jeunet would make his calling card a few years later. But this was Albert Pyun adapting a movie poster for lunch money so he was never going to get those flowers. More…
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Tonight I learned that the band on stage in MST3K favourite Hobgoblins features half the lineup of Surviving You, Always-era Saccharine Trust #aside
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RoboCop is absolutely a film that’s greater than the sum of its parts. But its parts are pretty great too, and this four-part, five-hour docu does a pretty entertaining job of breaking it all down to discover how the magic was made. It also really benefits from having so many of those involved in the production giving their piece, warts and all. More…
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Jessica Rothe got in absolutely rock-hard shape for… this? More…
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I have zero recollection of previously watching this, six years ago. But I stand by what I apparently said before. More…
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A paint-by-numbers thriller where you’ll figure things out far too quickly, mostly remarkable for being unnecessarily misogynist towards Eva Longoria (as if many of the male characters had never seen a woman before) and, in fairness, making Michael Douglas’ advancing age somewhat of a character trait that works. More…
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Plays like two distinct concepts shoehorned into one, to the detriment of both. I guess that was Cannon trying to save a buck. More arm wrestling might’ve helped; as it is, Sly barely does any before the big finale, as he and Robert Loggia’s goons spend most of the running time kidnapping a young boy from each other. In other notes, the presence of not one but three workers (Reggie Bennett, Scott Norton and of course Terry Funk) makes this a wrestling movie in my book. More…
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Forty years ago this week, both Double Nickels on the Dime and Zen Arcade were released into the world. An incredible achievement if it were only one of them, but two? Would that even happen now? #aside
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This is just a nice time catching up with the ersatz leads of the Brucesploitation era. Looking back on their careers, their emotions run the gamut, but none were under any illusions as to who they were and what they were doing. If they’d done a round-table for this documentary, I’d have given it an extra star. More…
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