Really great HBO Masonic-Gnostic Dust Bowl series that uses archetypes within the period story of bad vs. good. Totally swept under the rug. Hey… Clancy Brown, Amy Madigan, Toby Huss & Nick Stahl- not to mention old school fav Adrienne Barbeau.

Is there access to more than two episodes?

This uses classic toons from 1950 up to 1959 and loosely forms them together into a single classical toony concert. The main sequences are from The Rabbit Of Seville (where we get to the only shot of Bugs with 5 fingers), Baton Bunny, What’s Opera Doc (most people know it as Kill The Wabbit), and then Back Alley Oproar. They rerecorded the music new from Back Alley though due to copyright problems, so there’s a big difference from Carl Stalling’s work over to the 90s version.

It’s easy to tell the difference between the newer 90s stuff and the classic 50s stuff. It’s like the difference between a diamond & a piece of glass. The line work is inconsistent & sloppy, there’s a distinct difference between the original Mel Blanc voices & then Bergman’s, and the timing is off with the music cues. It’s fun, but What’s Opera Doc was the 1st cartoon preserved by the Library Of Congress & it’s award winning, so it’s noticeable when that genius work is spliced with sloppy 90s stuff. It’s like some art student coming in 100 years later & adding their own brushstrokes to a Rembrandt.

Hard to find anything made with more love & respect for someone so beloved. Louis Armstrong was the greatest. No one like him ever, before or since. The greatest.

Classic punk rawk nerd Riot Grrl cinema. Big fun. This isn’t meant to be Shakespeare or even Kubrick, you understand. This is low-budget Big Fun, so it’s not going to be anyone’s opus since it’s not meant to be. It’s a contemporary comic book film adaptation with a huge cult following & is frequently listed in top-10 superhero films of all time by a variety of sources. The rights to the film have even been optioned from MGM by Margot Robbie for a future reboot of this cult classic.

If you don’t get cheese or like it, that’s a matter of personal taste, but facts are facts & the fact is this film with a huge cult following isn’t going to go away. It’s in the same cinematic vein as The Rocky Horror Picture Show—- and to borrow a line from that cheesy dated film with a cult following of it’s own for those who don’t like Tank Girl — “I didn’t make him FOR YOU.”

That’s the thing with Tank Girl. It wasn’t made for everyone.

Lori Petty is the stand out actor in this, but there’s also Naomi Watts & Malcom McDowell. They’ve all been involved in better, more ambitious projects, but they’re fortunate to have been involved in this cult project.

This is a film that’s known for its soundtrack, having tracks from the legendary Riot Grrl band L7, Portishead, Iggy Pop, Devo, Joan Jett, Isaac Hayes, Richard Hell & Veruca Salt. For some of those artists, this film gave them exposure they never had, and for others, it rebooted their careers & gave them another chance. This is an important aspect of this film since it is the music community that 1st latched onto it & still keeps recognition of it going. The music fans of this film were the same people who were buying the comic books & are the same people that show up to the nerdy geek cons & cosplay events.

Like it or not, this film adaptation of Tank Girl has a rabid following & it isn’t going to fade away just because you want it to. It’s no Fellini. And it’s not meant to be. But if you like this kind of music & this kind of superhero or underground pulp comics, you’re going to have fun with Lori Petty, Naomi Watts & Malcom in this very fun CHEESY film.

Rubbish.

It’s not Satanic at all. It’s Chaldean.

Since Craig hasn’t been on network tv with his own late night show, people have kinda written him off & forgot about him - but this former punk rock drummer is way over-the-top funny. His humor is sneaky, crazy & absurd. He’s one of the nutty silly breed of comics that doesn’t try to shock or offend on purpose, but his humor is so offbeat that it catches you off guard & leaves you stitches without being a preachy turn-off. Totally funny guy that doesn’t take himself too seriously at all.

Carol Kane as the commander! Latka’s wife from Taxi! Valentino with Mama’s & Papa’s Michelle Phillips! The Last Detail with Nicholson! Woody Allen’s Manhattan! Tree Lounge with Buscemi & Mimi Rogers! License To Drive with Heather Graham! My First Mister with LeeLee Sobieski! Opposite Sex with Mena Suvari! Sleepwalk With Me with Emily Meade & Crisin Miloti! Thanks For Sharing & The Pallbearer with Paltrow! And and and and The Bounty Hunter with Aniston!

The Carol! The Kane! Carol friggin’ Kane! Still pint-sized! Still cute! Carol! Yaaaaaaah!

(but most of the bridge crew couldn’t act their way out of a wet paper bag…)

Cool made me think of Johnny Mnemonic

No one has the right to tell anyone how to live their life or die their death = unconscious common knowledge.

That would’ve been awesome if a mini or film happened to wrap up the series. I love a lot of the shows that Bryan Fuller has been part of creating.

Always loved this, but it’s amazing it got made at all. Karloff broke his hip on day one. Colin Clive had a broken leg & was a bad drunk. Elsa had to film in stilts & didn’t enjoy dealing with the bandages in order to pee. James Whale thought the original script stunk & opted to lampoon his own work, but look at the photography. Mel Brooks among many others really admired that guy. It’s a lovely film for that alone.

Oh hey this was a very big deal. This is when Hershey & Carradine were married, so when asked about the intimate scenes, they said they didn’t fake anything. They later did that infamous Playboy spread recreating the film scenes. But besides that, this is Scorsese, Corman & Reitman teamed together & that’s also huge.

Orson with his soon to be ex-wife Rita. There was a line of people that wanted to fillet him alive for having butchered her beautiful hair for this, but according to him, no one was more upset about the travesty than himself. The carny end with mirrors is a much talked about pay-off. Apparently this picture was done as a deal so Orson could get Around The World In 80 Days done. Good deal. Orson was an idiot regarding his personal dealings with Rita, but he was a brilliant filmmaker.

Missed him. Glad he’s back.

Well known LA surrealist psychedelic artist Marjorie Cameron, widow of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons, friend of Dennis Hopper & Dean Stockwell & cousin of Terminator-Avatar-Titanic director James Cameron embodied art in her life work, appears in this short. Although a cultural icon, there’s really nothing on film that represents her or her work.

Anyone who met her was mesmerized by her, but she was no actress. She was captured on film in Kenneth Anger shorts as well as the Water Witch with Hopper in the 1965 Poe-esque horror fantasy film Night Tide by horror director Curtis Harrington & also in his Wormwood Star short.

Cameron’s work is preserved in Paris, NYC & LA museums as well as her biography Wormwood Star, stage plays & bios about Jack such as Strange Angel & Sex & Rockets.

Remember this 1980 original 5 episode mini-series adaptation? It was a big dealio when we were kids. Chamberlain was batting 1000 then from Man In The Iron Mask, Thorn Birds to this.

Ukrainian Maya Deren was a revolutionary experimental surreal filmmaker admired by David Lynch, Helen Mirren & others. Like Harrington & Kenneth Anger who were inspired by her, she attacked Hollywood & was a gestaltist deeply rooted in Kabbalah practices & also filmed famed novelist Anias Nin. This short is protected by the National Film Registry & the beautiful Maya herself is featured in this film about daydreams.

I have never seen Looney Tunes talked about so poignantly and eloquently. I never knew how to put my personal appreciation for it into words, but I do now. Thank you.

Thanks for the dubbed post. Subs are useless since our blind family members cannot read those, so you have our gratitude.

As Sutherland said in 1st film: “Because hope is a stronger weapon than fear”.

4 years ago, producers said the world was weird & negative enough, so they didn’t see any point in adding to it by making more seasons of Black Mirror. Totally glad they rethought their position on the matter.

The greatest role Norma Jean Mortenson ever played was that of the fictional character she named Marilyn Monroe after her maternal family surname. Unlike a lot of really great talents such as Mae West, Norma kept the two things distinct & separate & didn’t get lost in the false persona. She was far more solid & intelligent than most give her credit for.

There is a difference in the actual person of Norma Jean Mortenson and the character she invented known as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was a fiction. A mere character role. Norma was not. She was a painfully shy orphaned redhead with a bad speech stutter who was left in movie theatres by a series of neglectful foster parents- which is all it took to plant the seeds she would need to cultivate her own innate gifts & become immortal.

Norma left behind her older sister, Berniece Baker Miracle, whom she provided for in her will & also made her funeral arrangements. In 1994, Berniece co-wrote the only authorized Monroe family autobiography with her daughter Mona Rae Miracle entitled My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir Of Marilyn Monroe.

This takes place immediately after the series Enterprise.

A real “wham bam, thank you, ma’am!” time.

Oh my gosh that is so sweet!

Yes! Seen bad taste and meet the feebles but the memory is a little hazy on them because…. 1) 35 and 28 year time lapse. Respectively. And…. 2) there was a funny, feel good little piece of square paper on my tongue at the time of viewing 😆

Nonsense & infantile, like the rest.

Anyone remember Bill Shatner writes books? This forgotten series of 18 episodes is adapted from his popular TekWar stuff.

Agree

Cobie Smulders. Emilia Clarke.
Chris McDonald isn’t any slouch either.

I think so, too:-)

I’m so sorry to hear he’s going through so much. Heart issues are no walk in the park - and I speak from experience. *Seeing Lena might cheer him up…oh, wait, scratch that; she NEVER cheers anyone up with that one expression she has. LOL.

You’re not wrong.

All time favorite with Xenia Seeberg, Patricia Zentilli & of course Eva, then Brian. For it’s time & budget… it was pretty creative, having it’s share of comedy & total absurdity. There’s still never been anything else like it 2 decades later.

Has there ever been a truly benevolent upper class anywhere?

Thanks for helping to celebrate many actors that were not mentioned. It may have been a long time ago, but those were the days of amazing comedy. Even the comedians couldn’t help laughing at times due to the fact that many of those shows were recorded live. Thanks for the great memories

What a shocker - another thing we have in common, loving those Fuller shows! I love Pushing Daisies, but my true love will always be Wonderfalls. Luscious Lee Pace is in that one too. (fanning myself as I scroll through his Instagram photos, incidentally…)

Required reading in our U.S. classes. Twice. Grades 7 & 9.

Art was able to keep his own hairstyle. How cool is that?

Suicidal 4 life! Sorry, that just came out. i’m a SoCal boy.

I was unaware of this. I’ll look it up, thank you.