What’s that, you say? It’s Friday the 13th just a couple of weeks before Halloween?
Well, I guess THAT explains Jason Voorhees’ visit to the Nolan house.
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Throwback Thursday: “Dark City” (1998)!
“Dark City” (1998) maybe wasn’t quite as perfect as its most ardent fans make it out to be, but it was still a damned good film — creative, original and caliginously artistic. (It occasionally suffers somewhat in comparison with its spiritual cousin, “The Matrix,” which changed the very medium of movies only a year later.) And what a cast — William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and Rufus Sewell!
I saw this movie on VHS around … 2001, I think. I remember being eager at the time to see the inimitable Hurt — I’d grown up with films like “Gorky Park” (1983) and “The Accidental Tourist” (1988). It was only later in life that I really became a fan of Sewell — after his tour-de-force performance as the Nazi villain in “The Man in the High Castle” (2015-2019).
And how can you beat Connelly as a nightclub crooner? My girlfriend sent me a gem that she found on Youtube — Connelly singing an alternate version of her musical number in the movie, Giovanni Polimeni’s “Sway.” (It’s the second video below.)
By the way, I am linking tonight to Media Graveyard and Polimeni’s Youtube channel.
Lazy Nolan is *LAZY.*
*THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.*
THERE IS A STRANGE MAN IN MY HOUSE.
That’s okay, though — it’s me.
Eric’s Insomniac Theater: “The Invisible Man” (1933)!
I try to watch at least one Universal Pictures monster movie every year before Halloween — it’s a little tradition of mine. This time out it was James Whale’s 1933 adaptation of H. G. Wells’ 1897 novel, The Invisible Man. (I actually do remember seeing this movie, or part of it, on television in the early 1980’s. Gems played like this ran on weekends all the time.)
The film is pretty cornball stuff, but I love seeing an original Universal monster movie late at night — and it’s always wild getting a glimpse into period culture. And Claude Rains does make a nicely menacing villain, even with his voice alone. (Because, most of the time, y’know, you can’t actually see him.)
You can find the entire film right here at the Internet Archive.
And, hey, if the kindly Dr. Cranley looks familiar to you, yes, he is indeed played by Henry Travers — the angel Clarence in 1946’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
No gracias, Senor.
All burritos should have cheese. A burrito without cheese is the Mexican equivalent of decaf coffee.
Toto, I don’t think we’re in New York anymore.
I will never get over how friendly Roanoke, VA is. You walk into a store to buy a Snapple and the dude who rings you up becomes a new friend.
Throwback Thursday: a lost art form.
Throwback Thursday: Queensryche’s “Silent Lucidity” (1990)!
Classic early 90’s tune.
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