After watching a DVD this evening, we watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3): PTZD and A Dish Best Served Cold.

The X-Files: Season One - Beyond the Sea. Great, largely Scully focused episode, with an awesome appearance by the great Brad Dourif. Basically people are getting murdered or are going to be murdered and Dourif is a prisoner that Mulder helped lock up that claims to be able to help them solve the case. Says he's a psychic. One of the best episodes of the first season. I'd rate this one 9/10.

Watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3) while we ate dinner: One Night Stand and El Cucuy.

We watched Man of Steel this evening, followed by an episode of Grimm (S3): Stories We Tell Our Young...

Since my last post here (just want to keep a record online for reference)



"Does a man good to get down on his knees once in a while..."



Pretty mild today, but I can see why Bardot here would have been hot stuff in the mid 50's. Pretty standard treasure hunting plot but with Bardots true hearted character inadvertently throwing a monkey wrench into the works.



Not a great movie- even by 50's Universal Sci-fi standards- with SPFX that look alternately hokey (the man-in-the-suit T-rex and miniature water creature) to not bad (the footage of real lizards out of scale).
Fortunately the night I watched it, it was just the kind of material I was in the mood for.


aka "Anne Of The Indies"

Pleasantly surprised by this one. Fine, outside the box, pirate adventure with Jean Peters' Anne (who was schooled in the piratical arts by Bluebeard himself) leading her own pirate crew with much success, until she meets Louis Jordan who plays a French captive of the Brits.
Interesting and effective swashbuckler. Was never a big fan of Jordan's, but he is great here ...and impossibly young.

We watched (Toby Hooper's) Mortuary this evening, followed by an episode of Grimm (S3): Cold Blooded.

Mediocre sums it up

After watching a DVD this evening, we watched an episode of Grimm (S3): Twelve Days of Krampus.

Pretty predictable. Some decent action on the train. Terrible CGI. Nice little twist after the totally predictable who-dunnit was revealed.


Story: C+
Action: B+
CGI: D-

I liked this better the second time. Waltz deserved his Oscar.

I have a craving for white cake.

After watching a DVD this evening, we watched an episode of Grimm (S3): Red Menace.

The X-Files: Season One - Tooms. A man who has the ability to squirm/wiggle his way through small spaces is released from a mental institution. The character, Tooms, is paroled. Mulder tells Scully that his murderous ways are not yet over.



One of the stronger episodes...I'd rate this 7/10...

The X-Files: Season One - Born Again. Some cops find a seemingly homeless girl who says her name is "Michelle Bishop". One of the detectives interviews her. Next thing you know, he's seemingly thrown himself out of a window, and is dead. The girl sits their stoically.



A decent episode, 7/10.

Have to add that while the video quality for the series has been great thus far, for whatever reason the image looks pretty poor throughout this episode. Not quite sure why that is, but it basically looks like a DVD throughout the episode...Every other episode I watched before this has looked great in Hi-Def...

Night of the Demons
Let's Be Cops
Quarantine

Started watching Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) while we ate dinner, we'll finish it up tonight...

It was ok. Nick Offerman was hilarious as usual. Not a big Laura Prepon fan but I would do the same thing if I was the main character

Finished watching Batman V Superman, watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3): Eyes of the Beholder and The Good Soldier.

Watched Justice League this evening (wife & I were definitely entertained), followed by an episode of Grimm (S3): The Wild Hunt.

Watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3) while we ate dinner: Revelation and Mommy Dearest.

Watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3) while we ate dinner: Once We Were Gods and The Show Must Go On.

picking up where I left off in my last post...



Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Charles Durning, a John Williams score from smack dab in the middle of his most effective period, with DePalma equally in the middle of his. God, how I love this movie! This plays like a dark X-men spin off tale, way before there was ever a superhero age in movies.



Ironic that this was pretty much the start of Travolta's decline as a star (the first time around) because I always found him highly affecting here. In fact, next to SNF, I say this was easily his best early work.
There's a little BS here (I can't buy that a magazine would reprint a controversial piece of film frame by frame over three pages, even pre-VCR/internet), and he is doing a riff on Blow Up, but I still enjoy the hell out of it. Another fun Donaggio score too.

I don't usually watch the special features, but I stuck around for Nancy Allen's interview which was just the right length and an excellent overview of the production of the film from her privileged POV.



Oh brother. So much of Hopper's heavy drug period pontifications reminds me of the kind of stuff I was spouting as an experimenting, know-it-all late teen/early twenty-something art student.

Interesting to a point, but the amusement turned to tedium shortly before it was over (just like it did for my friends back in the day, no doubt). Fortunately the last fifteen minutes close out with a naked orgy/group encounter which helps the viewer muscle through to the end.



Not the Grand Guignol horror movie it sounds like from the title. Mostly tepid, but still entertaining, murder mystery, with locked doors and crypts and hidden secrets.

I developed a big crush on a more mature Lili Palmer when I first saw her in Counterfeit Traitor and But Not For Me decades ago. So it was a real delight to see her here in a pre-code mystery when she must have been just on the cusp of her late teens/early twenties. I'm smitten all over again.



I enjoyed this one so much more than the bigger budgeted, more bombastic Gator. The extended car chases at the end represent a little flab, but otherwise it's an effective and entertaining revenge/action movie with serious regional color (the deep South being what it is, this might be one of Burt's few movies that feels like it hasn't aged all that much in over 40 years).



Very cool early Michael Caine crime/heist movie, with some interesting characters that unfortunately takes a bizarre and weak dramatic twist in the last act that left a disappointing impression after a strong, compelling start.

Watched 2 episodes of Grimm (S3) while we ate dinner: Synchronicity and The Law of Sacrifice.

Watched an episode of Grimm (S3) while we ate dinner: Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen.

It was ok though the acting was mediocre which is not that surprising with most of these Faith based movies

Dennis Quaid was the only reason I checked it out.

Back in 2005 when Cage was still credible and working with decent actors like Leto and Ethan Hawke.

It still holds up. This Blu-ray had a trailer with instructions on watching a Blu-ray probably since came out during the day of Blu-rays back in 2007.