Interesting, but would’ve liked to have seen this as a PBS or BBC presentation instead.

Good to watch back to back with I. Claudius.

Heartbreaking that a country was built upon this invasion, appropriation & genocide.

Book is indeed best, but Patrick Stewart & John Hurt are great in this!

Love the way Bettany presents her travelogues.

Shlub gets the best lines.

These ladies are so nefarious.

Alyson’s last show is good. Loved Raymi.

The movie was filmed in an actual Italian castle, masquerading as Spain in 1492. Everyone looks believably grimy and the settings are dim at times, as would be expected in a dungeon or cell. The costumes look good as well, and the score is pretty atmospheric (from one of the Band brothers, who do those Puppet Master movies and were involved in this one as well).
There are several actors I like here, chiefly Lance Henriksen as Inquisition torturer Tomas de Torquemada, and he manages to steal every scene he’s in. Just the right amount of insanity, lust, and sadism all wrapped up in a nice religious bow. You do NOT want his blessing! An article I read on this film said he stayed in character at all times on set and scared the shyte out of cast and crew LOL.
Every now and then the dialogue slips (deliberately) into casual modern patter, which brings a smile. Not for small kids, of course - a little nudity and of course, Spanish Inquisition’s violence.

Bingo. Like Big Bad Mama, many of these films had strong women that dealt harshly with abusive men.

Soft core sexploitation films of the early 70s made it a glorious time to be a pre-teen boy with a drive-in in our neighborhood. The Lone Star, or Porn Star as it was known locally, also showed XXX films all the way up to 1987, a remarkable feat given that we were in the bible belt.

Break out role for little Jackie Coogan who grew up to wed Betty Grable, then become Uncle Fester in the Addams Family, as well as Shirley Jones dad in The Partridge Family (after Ray Bolger who was The Scarecrow in The Wizard Of Oz.)

More importantly, Jackie’s parents stole all of his money & he had to take them to court to get his earnings back, leading to landmark legislation that would protect child actors from predatory parents (California Child Actor’s Bill- The Coogan Act). Throughout his life, Charlie Chaplin took care of Jackie & never turned his back on him.

Drive-in diva cinema with Sondra Currie, big sis of Runaways singer Cherie Currie & her twin Marie. Also featuring Anneka Di Lorenzo who played Messalina twice (Messalina 1977 then Caligula 1979), Candy Stripe Nurse Chatterbox Candy Rialson & Mary Stoddard.

Unusual in that this is one of the last Rita Hayworth films before it was known she had Alzheimer’s. The whole cast is the draw though. It’s Ed Begley sr. last role before he died, and besides Mimsy, also has Robert Walker jr., the son of Jennifer Jones. Most people know him from Easy Rider & as Charlie X from Star Trek. If you want to get really wacky, he also appeared in Time Tunnel & The Invaders.

This show is refreshingly bent out of shape, but the tea party with Britt Lower is hall of fame.

Not a high mark for anyone involved.

Saw this last year. Didn’t deliver. A year later it still doesn’t deliver.

I liked Sanctuary but the only thing that really annoyed me was Will always having his mouth open. So many times I wanted to reach through my tv and slap is chin up lol

So rotten it makes Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes look profound. Awful. Fun. Only rewatchable as party background to mess with your guests.

After almost 5 years of fearmongering and stoking division, how could they be so utterly unprepared for this possibility?

Unlisted but starring Ariana Richards (girl in Jurassic Park) as the girl of interest.

Now I’m excited to watch both! Added Farscape to my plan to watch list.

As long as she looks up once in a while… Helen of Troy may have had the face that launched 1000 triremes, but Amanda’s got the eyes that launched 1000 Prometheus-class starships. Which I only mentioned so I could say that “Sir, we can’t name the ship Enterprise” was quite possibly the best piece of SF dialogue ever put into a script (though Futurama’s got a couple really good ones too).

Oh, man, Lexx was a head trip until I could binge-watch the movies and first season. So much crazy stuff going on and so few real-life touchstones until (hmmm, I sense a trend here) NBC got ahold of it and gave it a $10 budget for the last season. Still, I agree completely that it was very underrated - sometimes I get the feeling German TV doesn’t always translate to US TV, but maybe Netflix’s push to bring shows like Dark to Netflix USA will make it easier. :)

I missed Sanctuary, but I could watch Amanda Tapping on permanent loop and wouldn’t get bored. ;) I’m going to have to ad that to my list!

YES! Farscape is amazing! Did everyone catch “Sanctuary”?? Amanda Tapping was just as good in it, if not better, than she was in the SGU’s. https://www.primewire.tf/tv/2113-sanctuary

I’d recommend Farscape, it shared a lot of the same elements as SG:A in terms of creativity, tone, space opera tropes, etc.. In other words, fun with occasional overacting that fit with the overall show, and even more creativity (IMO) than Andromeda. And since you must have watched SG-1, even a “big honkin’ space gun” type weapon that would even make the Goa’uld poop themselves (or their hosts ;) ).

It started out well but that last season, where the “already pushing the Sorbo saturation limit” became “Sorbo overload” really kinda messed things up for me, as did the “Hercules in Space” plot/narrative.
The show was at its best when it was focused on restoring the Commonwealth and coping with the Magog threat…kinda like ST: Discovery last season, restoring the Federation and dealing with the alien species accidentally destroying planets after The Burn.

But by the Great Ones (Roddenberry and JMS), I can’t watch anything with Sorbo in it anymore after suffering through his Christo-rightwing fanaticism on Twitter for so many, many years. Shame too, he was never a very good actor, but he was perfect for Sam Raimi’s Hercules.

great summary!

For those who really dig Roddenberry, then this non-science fiction drive-in flick was big. Has stars like Angie Dickinson & Kojak Telly Savalas, but also for anyone who grew up with 1970s superheroes on Saturday morning, there was Captain Marvel-Shazam followed by Isis, played by JoAnna Cameron. She’s also in this. Includes James Doohan (Scotty), Disney’s Keenan Wynn, Planet Of The Apes Roddy McDowall. Also has drive-in divas like Joy Bang, Barbara Leigh, June Fairchild & Gretchen Burrell.

After Roddenberry’s Genesis ii, John Saxon starred in this sci-fi story that has that doomy 70s vibe found in films like this. Growing up, we remember him from The Six Million Dollar Man, but he was in everything including Nightmare On Elm Street, Queen Of Blood, & The Bees.

two thumbs up

Wow. What a guy ✔

Judy Garland’s other daughter Lorna Luft is in this with Wendy Schaal (Francine Smith on American Dad) 80’s pin-up girl Lisa Hartman & Ice Castles skater Lynn-Holly Johnson. That’s just an unlikely bit of casting as any.

It’s odd because it has Judy Garland’s other daughter Lorna Luft, Liza Minnelli’s sister- and it’s a big break for a young Pfeiffer, who really didn’t play any parts like this afterward.

I know right?? I think the previous is called “Teller Speaks” and I DIDN’t buy it, i was like YA RIGHT….! sure sure..
but sure enough…..!

.jaw was on the floor!!

Speechless. ░▒Teller speaks.▒░

Top notch comment, Random!

Norma Jean Mortensen portrayed by Ashley Judd transforms herself into the greatest character portrayal of her life, Marilyn Monroe as done by Mira Sorvino. The film is interesting for that reason alone, using different actors to show the difference, but it doesn’t go deep or deviate from the character assassination that’s typical of bios about her. It’s good for it’s era, but not surprising.

George White was an impresario not unlike Flo Ziegfeld who offered large review shows that almost every film star & musician performed in. Oodles of talent such as the greatest dancer of all time Eleanor Powell, tapper Ann Miller, The Three Stooges, most of the cast of The Wizard Of Oz, comics like Joan Davis, pianist-comic Jimmy Durante (Frosty The Snowman), Dolores Costello (who’s that? That is Drew Barrymore’s grandma, whom comic Lou Costello named himself after he loved her so much), Zanuck’s protege the great Alice Faye (married to band leader Phil Harris), silent film great Louise Brooks, and more.

The review ran about as long as The Ziegfeld Follies did, & wrapped up about the same time. George made 5 films & was in some of them as himself. He even wrote the screenplay for The Ziegfeld Follies with Astaire, Judy Garland & Lucy Ball- as well as Duffy’s Tavern (which is where the Archie Bunker character grew from as well as Moe the bartender from The Simpsons, & also a few other cartoon characters).

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A trip back to the world of Arthur Conan Doyle is every bit as magical as it seems to be.

Bugs pays homage to who he drew inspiration from, Groucho himself. If you’ve never listened to old time radio (OTR) game show You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx, these bits are taken from that. There was also the tv version, which is great since you can see the guests Groucho brought out, including his own daughter Melinda (mother of Jade) & her buddy Candy Bergen.

There are 3 distinct eras of Daffy. He began as an utterly unmanageable nutcase as imagined by Tex Avery. After Tex went over to MGM in 1942, famed Jerry Lewis director Frank Tashlin restyled Daffy as a pushy rude loudmouth in the screwball comedy style, and he was often paired with Porky as a comedy team. Then Chuck Jones got a hold of him in 1951 & transformed him into a very self-centered greedy coward, famously pairing him with Bugs Bunny.

This is the wacked out wing-nut version of The Duck when he really was actually Daffy.

Bobby Soxer era Frank Sinatra was fairly thin & there were plenty of jokes about it. He loved it when Warner Bros poked fun at him - but Bing Crosby hated the attention & threatened the animation studio plenty.

During this period Warner Brothers released a lot of gangster films since that was had captured the public imagination at the time. Many of these films had a certain formula that the studio followed, but some stood out like James Cagney & Pat O’Brien’s Angels With Dirty Faces, so Tex Avery thought why not duplicate that formula, port it over to Leon Schlesinger’s Termite Terrace animation studio, pay tribute to that film & rip it apart at the same time with a story written by Jack Miller. The story was done so well that some locations chose to ban the toon altogether since they felt the criminal activity was a bit too strong. However, Tex liked the basic premise of this toon enough that he later remade once he went over to MGM four years later in a toon called Who Killed Who.

Mel Blanc, Danny Webb and John Deering do the voice work . Looney Tunes music director Carl Stalling does the very fitting & effective musical score, often quoting from other Warner pictures.

The lead animator is Sid Sutherland along with brothers Charles McKimson and director Bob McKimson, as well as Virgil Ross and respected animator Rob Scribner. Editing & sound effects were done by Treg Brown, the very man who discovered & hired former big band leader & violin teacher to Jack Benny, Mel Blanc. The backgrounds are done by John Didrik Johnsen.

Our favorite Sylvester The Cat toons are the ones without Tweety, who is just too infantile for our tastes most of the time. In this toon, legendary animation director Chuck Jones & writer Michael Maltese just leave the annoying bird out of the picture & instead pair the Maine Coon Cat inspired Sylvester with a much more refined Porky The Pig as the straight man who has just purchased a not-so-homey & somewhat spooky house that creeps out Sylvester. It looks like the house from Psycho. Except this house was created more than a decade before Hitchcock made that movie, so director Chuck Jones beat director Alfred to the punch. Sylvester is just not down with what this place has to offer at all since it’s inhabited by seemingly malevolent mice that set up the poor sloppy tomcat for a series of mean-spirited gags. In fact, this is the 1st toon where Chuck directed Sylvester & also where he got his name. Previously he was called Thomas or had no name at all. Chuck did a total of 3 toons with Sylvester as Porky’s cat. The other two are 1954 Claws For Alarm then 1955 Jumpin’ Jupiter. Mel Blanc provides all the voices.

Looney Tunes music director Carl Stalling picks some pretty funny music quotes for this including Chopin’s Waltz in A minor & Funeral March, Taps, Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals, Rock-A-Bye Baby & Sweet Dreams Sweetheart.

Lloyd Vaughan is the lead animator. The rest of Chuck’s Looney Tunes animation team at Termite Terrace are Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam, Abe Levitow & Rick Thompson. Special animation effects are done by A.C. Gamer. The layouts are done by Bob Gribbroek and Pete Alvarado did the backgrounds. Treg Brown does all the sound & editing.