I Saw a Film! The first thing you notice in this era piece (early fifties, just after the war), is the strange moaning and groaning soundtrack. Human misery is already being implied, a horror movie is our expectation. This film is a revisit. I saw this thing in the cinema when it came out and…

I Saw A Film! Our young, skull-T shirt wearing, rebel (he actually does wear a confederate flag patch) belongs to a rag-tag team of spunky individuals set against the ministry of, take your time with this: Deinfestation Annihilation Squad, or Henry Silva's silver suited army of baddies and their box trucks. When our hero finds…

I Saw a Film! Based on a true story, and with the messiness a true story brings to the screen, we get Beverley Hillbilly alum Max Baer (son of the famous heavyweight boxer so rudely depicted in Cinderella Man), otherwise known as Jethro, in one of his few post Beverly Hillbillies roles (he got so…

I Saw a Film! How long? Sixty seconds? Sixty seconds? Is that all? Gone in sixty seconds. Like in under a minute? Yup, sixty seconds is a minute. So you're saying these guys can take a car in under a minute? Yeah, sixty seconds and it's gone. Whooeee that's fast. Yes, yes it is. How…

I Saw A Film! Ron Howard comes back to his role as a sheriff's son, this time however, a young woman has his heart--the confusingly named Christopher Norris--who did a pile of television and has a striking resemblance to Melanie Griffith. Opie gets talked into stealing a winning race car driven by Dave Madden (Laugh-in,…

I Saw A Film! I never realized there was an attempt to cast Marty Robbins in an Elvis movie. Well, that's what this feels like. Marty doesn't sing his song about the Mexican girl in El Paso, but he does lay down a few numbers, and there are some other country/blue grass / folk-style acts…

I Saw a film! and have listened to and loved Killing Joke and the guitar style of Geordie Walker, and the weird, powerful diction and poetry of Jaz Coleman for my whole life since teenager-land. They recently toured with Metallica, and they were less than a mile away, but I couldn't afford to go. I…

I Saw A Film! As a teen I'd have avoided anything smacking of any kind of style, formula, or pop-artistry. I had no time for radio-music and thought dancing to be, not evil, not soul-damning, but just pointless and silly. I was a lot of fun! I basically watched Das Boot and Dune over and…

I Saw A Film! A cute, quaint old Corman product involving a big-headed alien who hitches a ride back to earth with an unfortunate astronaut who's belly is full of gestating aliens. Unfortunately for the alien he only gets back to find six people total, and they're mostly pretty skeptical of good intentions. It's a…

Early Peter Jackson lunacy that drops you off in the middle of an alien invasion, which looks much more like a modern zombie pic, in small town New Zealand. Apparently, the aliens have decided people are good to eat, and from the looks of it, they already ate all the women. There're no ladies in…