Peter Gunn (1958)

This is obviously an old series I started brushing up on in the last week or so. I'm only about six episodes in but I think I got the hang of it. Peter Gunn, played by the late Craig Stevens (who mostly did television from the Incredible Hulk to Fantasy Island, etc) is a laid…

Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

I Saw A Film! A comic excuse for cute 1950s ladies to wear furry skirts talk like make-believe Indians and dominate some amused-looking men. We start off hearing from "Mother Nature" while looking at some Bush Gardens nature clips to set the stage. The main premise of the film is that there are two tribes…

Guns (1990)

I Saw A Film! If you like your cheesy action films light on the intrigue and heavy on the bikini-clad curves this is your jam. Former Playboy bunny Dona Spier with some fine 80s perm'd hair has to hunt and be hunted by some seriously malicious evil guys. There's the Great, pre-Machete, Danny Trejo, and…

Flash Gordon (1980)

I Saw A Film! Considering the original Buster Crabbe serials were made in the era my parents were born in, which is to say just prior to WWII, you'd have to be one seriously old person (100?) to have really any inkling of what this is four decades since this DeLaurentis spectacle was exposed to…

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

I Saw A Film! How could you not love a film starring Beau Bridges, Jodie Foster, Natasha Kinski, Rob Lowe, the great Wallace Shawn as Sigmund Freud! (Inconceivable!) and Matt Modine in a couple of similar parts and based on a rambling Jonathan Irving novel that was clearly a lot of fun to write. There's…

Demonoid (1981)

I Saw A Film! This is your standard possessed-hand-found-in-a-Mexican-cave-tomb-killing-folks-and-causing-other-mischief. Samantha Eggar (from the old Collector movie, I need to revisit that one) and hubby, played by Roy Jenson visit some poor Mexican mummies (the same ones used by Herzog for his Nosferatu epic, which turn out to be a lot of poor victims of cholera),…

Porky’s Revenge (1985)

I Saw A Film! And agreed to watch this one with Film-Authority, so we can compare our views! Having gone a bit sideways for the second sequel, the Porky's franchise comes slamming back with it's more popular central theme, upending the cigar-chomping, fat man who hates them and now runs a bar/bordello on a barge.…

The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)

I Saw A Film! Seaside village with a long history of monster stories starts losing folks to what is apparently violent death at the hands of a monster. The town's one hottie, set to tease us with her casual unconcern skinny dipping, is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper who has, unbeknownst to anyone, been…

Hot Pursuit (1987)

I Saw a Film! There are few likable characters in this particular fantasy of a college boy (Cusack) wanting to catch up to a Caribbean vacation his flippant and bizarre girlfriend goes on with her well off family. I suppose it's normal to deck yourself in black and ninja-climb the outside of a building to…