There are cases where a woman has gotten pregnant again in three weeks after having a baby. That means that a woman can theoretically have five births, none of them multiple for each of those five births, none of them by surrogates, within forty-one months, which is three years and five months. I don’t know any female celebrity who did that.
As I interpret the damage to the armor, the cannonball only hit his right side and the heart was untouched, so merely a flesh wound in universe Hollywood.
Anyone remember Hal Hartley’s first two films?
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
Trust (1990)
This indie director made such a splash in the early 1990s among critics and film students with his utterly original approach, both hilarious and philosophical.
He’s made almost a dozen more films since then but seems to have dropped completely off the radar.
Yes, I loved Hal Hartley and saw those multiple times during their original art house theater runs.
“Drugstore Cowboy” is a late-1980s movie that is largely forgotten, and sadly more relevant than ever.
It’s set in 1971, and features four drug addicts who get their drugs by robbing pharmacies. One of the actors even learned how to shoot up and did so on camera, with insulin needles and sterile water or normal saline.
Jerome Bixby was a science fiction writer who also wrote several notable SF screenplays. He co-wrote the screenplay for Fantastic Voyage and wrote three episodes of the original Star Trek (Including “Mirror, Mirror”, the one with the Evil Mirror Universe, where Spock has a beard). The Twilight Zone episode It’s a GOOD Life (the one with Billy Mumy as the omnipotent boy who sends those he doesn’t like “into the cornfield”) wasn’t written by him, but it’s based on his short story. And, of course, he wrote It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which Alien stole its plot from.
But he also wrote some other screenplays that have been overlooked.
I can understand it with The Curse of the Faceless Man, which is basically a mummy story, but with one of those plaster of paris figures from Pompeii . But his third 1950s work appears to have been almost completely forgotten. The Lost Missile (1958) . It’s not even listed among Bixby’s films on his Wikipedia page. It’s about an atomic-powered rocket used as a weapon, launched by an un-named power (pretty obviously the Soviet Union), which an American missile intended to destroy it merely moves it off course. The still-traveling missile is in a very low earth orbit and is wreaking havoc on everything it passes over. Attempts to destroy the missile repeatedly fail, and it’s on its way towards New York City when a scientist tries a newly-developed weapon against it.
Interesting, totally neglected flick. I’ve only seen it once, on TV. The DVD is listed at Amazon and WalMart, but always as “out of stock”. You can find it in some obscure places, if you dig deep enough. But I haven’t seen it in ages.
Bixby also wrote The Man from Earth (2007), an effects-less SF story about a man who has lived practically forever. It resembles his Star Trek screenplay “Requiem for Methuselah” in many ways. I’ve only ever seen it as a DVD.
There is a sequel, Man from Earth: Holocene
where some of his students catch on. Not very good, and it seems to be trying to be a pilot for a TV series which as far as I know never got made.
I saw the sequel first which hurt some of the impact of the originial.
Agree. The cast is as great as the writing. One of the first DVDs where I watched the Director’s Commentary afterwards. When the Matrix came out, I said “Hey! They ripped off The Thirteenth Floor and Dark City… (oh, wait, those were done by many of the same people, so they ripped off themselves).”
I saw this one probably right after it was released on dvd. A friend of mine loaned it to me. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but Games with James Caan, Katherine Ross and Simone Signoret was a decent thriller. Caan and Ross are a married couple into kinky mind games, Signoret comes into their lives and all hell breaks loose. Don Stroud has a scene that drove me up the wall.
I just saw this will be on TCM. at 1:30AM CST
I watched The Lost Missle not long ago! Either Tubi or Freevee I believe.
This thread has sent me on a search for a number of lost films that I remember from the '70s and '80s. Some are available for streaming and some seem to have vanished completely. Of course a few of the ones I have found should have stayed lost! Some of those from the late '70s are not exactly how I remember them.
YES! And I loved it. As a child of the suburbs, I was suffering from a paucity of Weird.
Dr. Seuss delivered it, with a good dose of scariness.
The first video that I saw on MTV where they listed the writer, the performer, and then the band that lip-sync’ed it.
(In the movie, a black Temptations-style band “performed” the song.)
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One of my Top Ten.
Peter Cook is delightful as the devil. His office has stacks of boxes, and while he’s talking, he’s taking a piece out of each jigsaw puzzle. And tearing the last page out of Agatha Christie books.
What I love is that Dudley Moore’s nebbishy Everyman makes a deal with the devil to win Elenor Bron, but the devil keeps tricking him. One wish is to be a rock star, and Dudley’s Carnaby Street Mod performer gets upstaged by Peter Cook’s flat affect hyper-hipster “Drimble Wedge” who, when the greek chorus of beautiful women profess their love, sneers lyrics like “You fill me with inertia.”
One of my absolute favorite movies is an Australian film, and it stars Sam Neill and American actor Patrick Warburton:
The Dish (2000), The Dish - Wikipedia
It’s a historical comedy about Australia’s role in the communications relaying of the Apollo 11 moon landing television signal.
Has anyone else seen it? How did you like it?
Saw it at Boston’s Arisia science fiction convention several years ago. My wife wasn’t there with me at the time, so I had to get a copy later and show it to her. Unexpectedly good film, making fine use of the Australian dish antenna.
I saw it in a theater on its initial US release. I haven’t really thought about it since then. It was a little jarring to realize just how recently we lived in a world without complete satellite coverage.
The Dish was a nice little Australian film. Another one was The Castle, from a couple of years earlier. It’s about a family that lives in a Melbourne suburb, in the shadow of the airport. The government attempts to acquire the family’s home (and that of their neighbors) by eminent domain. The family is unwilling to sell, so they are represented in court by a lawyer friend, but he’s not very good. While he’s at court, he meets an older man who takes an interest in the case. It turns out that the older man is a distinguished lawyer and retired Queen’s Counsel, and he takes on the case pro bono.
Running Scared, 1986. Billy Crystal and the late Gregory Hines are cops in Chicago who want to retire and open a beachside bar, but they have to take care of one last thing before they leave Chi-town. It is so clever! The wisecracking never stops; it’s like a ZAZ film, except all the gags are verbal, none visual. I think when it was new/on cable, people might have avoided it because they conflated it with Off Beat, a Judge Reinhold vehicle that flopped. Running Scared is no “wacky comedy”, though; it just does not quit.
We actually watched that in my first-year Property Law at law school. Great film; I liked it so much, I went and got the DVD. Seen it a number of times since.
Very quotable too:
“So much serenity …” [Vrooms boat engine.]
“Tell him he’s dreamin!”
And the best of all, from one of the courtroom scenes:
“It’s the vibe.”