Found this review from Forces of Geek in my newsfeed, thought it might be of interest to folks here.
Cinema Bizarro is a very good book about (mostly) bad movies.
The fact that such all-time turkeys as Robot Monster and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters are treated with an equal level of respect to such genuine genre classics as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob says a lot about the mindset of these reviews.
A book for kids covering everything from 7 Faces of Dr Lao to Woman Eater!
Publisher's link:
THE THIRD ENTRY IN THE RONDO AWARD NOMINATED MONSTER MOVIE BOOK SERIES!
From the creators of Giant Bug Cinema - A Monster Kid’s Guide and Giant Beast Cinema - A Monstrous Movie Guide, both of which reached the Top Ten on Amazon for Horror Movie Books, comes Cinema Bizarro — a celebration of killer plants, eccentric aliens, and weird westerns!
Featuring insanely insightful reviews of 38 movies (plus 30 capsule reviews of Weird Westerns of the 1930’s and 1940’s), take a very unsafe tourbus through a terrifying terrain filled with sight-stealing triffids, alien gorillas in diving helmets, and the vampires ’n’ dinosaurs that vexed the wild west. Let Cinema Bizarro envelop you in its loving embrace like the cool, slimy clutches of The Blob!
The contributors are:
• Larry Blamire - Rondo-Award winning film historian and cult filmmaker of Sony’s The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Giant Beast Cinema
• Dan Madigan - former Writer for WWE, screenwriter/creator of See No Evil franchise.
• Tracy Mercer - Giant Beast Cinema, Host, My Favorite Shtty Movie podcast
• Mike Peros - José Ferrer: Success and Survival, Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart, Giant Beast Cinema, film critic for Noho Arts District
• Steven Peros - Co-Editor/Contributor to Giant Beast Cinema, screenwriter of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow
• Nadia Robertson - Cinema Macabre Magazine, Rock and Roll Nightmares, and Co-Host of Cinema Chats podcast
• Brian R. Solomon - Godzilla FAQ, Giant Beast Cinema
• Phoef Sutton - Two-time Emmy winning writer for Cheers, co-host of Films Freaks Forever podcast.
• Mark Bailey - Conceived, designed, and co-edited entire monster book trilogy.
• Steven B. Orkin - Copy editor for monster book trilogy, Winner of Stephen King’s On Writing contest
Loads of people have thought "What if you had a time machine? Would you go back and kill Hitler?"
The Yesterday Machine addresses the question "What if you had a time machine and were a mad Nazi scientist? Would you go back and save Hitler? And bring him to present-day America?" (Hmmm....)
Apparently a cheapo "regional movie" made in Dallas and never distributed beyond the Texas drive-in circuit, its release is so shrouded in uncertainty that no one can quite agree on the year it first came out. (Suggestions include 1963, 1965 and 1966. Still filling out the bill in Texas drive-ins in the mid 70s.)
It opens with a completely gratuitous bit of majorette go-go dancing, and pans to also view... a knockoff Charles Napier. At which point I went "And this movie is gonna have Nazis... is this a RUSS MEYER MOVIE???"
But as the titles roll, it becomes clear this is by a completely different director. Russ Marker. See, 3 whole letters different from Russ Meyer!
We also know it's not the œuvre of the world's favourite Nazi-obsessed director by the fact that the majorette and other actresses lack Meyer's trademark... topheaviness. And the film is not nearly gonzo enough. It's a fairly action-free hour before the Nazis even show up, at which point the mad scientist spends like 15-20 minutes just explaining his time travel "science" in front of a blackboard. I genuinely dozed off at this point. (But presumably at the drive-in, this would be when the teens would be rounding third base, so... who cares?)
A literal snooze fest. Don't bother watching... once the go-go dancing is over.
Not Charles Napier, in a movie by not Russ Meyer
Info:
Teaser:
Movie (apparently it's in the public domain now, so it's everywhere):
[They've] got Google to prioritize search results for them;
We all know that Sundar Pichai wakes up first thing in the morning thinking "what do lemmy.world and lemm.ee admins want me to do today?"
these come from observations
"I can tell by the pixels!"
Which will result in retaliation against US movies, thus further undermining the US's unparalleled soft power.
This man is doing literally everything Putin could ever want.
Just off the top of my head:
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is "confrontational" and a provocation?!?
So many layers to that name.
I mean, this is a guy who considers rape the highest compliment he can pay a woman.
So sad this is necessary now.
Dudek had been a mid-level IT staffer at Social Security before being put on administrative leave for helping Elon Musk’s DOGE team access sensitive databases inside the agency. The Trump administration tapped him to lead the agency after more senior officials refused to cooperate with Musk’s team.
The most fanatically loyal to the Dear Leader, the most contemptuous of both the law and the people, are plucked from mediocrity and placed at the top.
This is America now.
Given that the US government has recognized how unprotected technology (like unencrypted messaging) leaves its individual employees vulnerable to Chinese snoopers, I wonder if China is starting to realize just how vulnerable its pervasive unencrypted tech could leave it to US snooping.
So... Zuck stans the guy who ended the Republic and turned it into a monarchy that pretended to still be a republic?
Well, that's not concerning at all.
Not the Onion: Kid Rock's Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump's ICE Raids
Kid Rock and Steve Smith (the MAGA businessman running the restaurant chains in the article, not the son from American Dad!) still at large.