For our Saturday pizza and bad movie night, we once again turned to Mystery Science Theater 3000. They did not disappoint. This was a color 1956 Claymation monster flick involving a love triangle, vaqueros, bad dudes, a fistfight in the town square smashing a lot of honest vendors’ stalls, and the heroics of (*sigh*) theContinue reading “Review of “The Beast of Hollow Mountain” (1956)”
Category Archives: Saturday Pizza and Bad Movie Night
Review of “Avalanche” (1978)
For our Saturday night pizza and bad movie, we ventured into Mystery Science Theater territory for this callback to disaster flicks of the 70s. I was rooting for the snow. The pizza and wine were good. Plot: Caroline Brace, formerly Shelby (Mia Farrow), checks into a newly opened ski resort and meets her former mother-in-law,Continue reading “Review of “Avalanche” (1978)”
Review of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975)
This is our latest Saturday pizza and bad movie offering, a made-for-TV flick consisting of three independent stories. Plot(s): Karen Black plays the main character in each of the three segments and plays a total of four separate roles. In the first segment (“Julie”), Julie Eldridge (Karen Black) is a dowdy literature teacher at aContinue reading “Review of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975)”
Review of “House of Dracula” (1945)
This is this Saturday night’s pizza and bad movie offering. We’d seen this before but barely remembered it. Many things—and actors appeared in other movies. Plot: It’s not Dracula’s house. It’s the seaside castle-like estate of one saintly Dr. Franz Edelman (Onslow Stevens) outside the (fictional) village of Visaria. One night a large bat fliesContinue reading “Review of “House of Dracula” (1945)”
Review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (2022)
Last night, we watched this for our Saturday night pizza and bad movie offering. The pizza and wine were good. Plot:In 1932, “Magizoologist” Newton “Newt” Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) tracks a beast known as a qilin in the jungles of China. She gives birth. The newborn looks something like a fawn with long mustaches and aContinue reading “Review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (2022)”
Review of “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” (1968
For our Saturday pizza and bad movie, we chose one the dearly beloved recalled seeing in part some years ago. It wasn’t all that good, but it was lighthearted. Plot: A Greek ship remains in quarantine in New York harbor because most of the crew is sick. You wouldn’t know it by looking at them.Continue reading “Review of “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” (1968″
Review of “Arsenic and Old Lace” (1944)
It’s Halloween, 1941, in New York. Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant), a drama critic and author of such books as Marriage, a Fraud and a Failure, waits in a long line with the girl literally next door, Elaine Harper (Pricilla Lane). A sign above them reads “marriage licenses.” A couple of gentlemen of the fourth estateContinue reading “Review of “Arsenic and Old Lace” (1944)”
Review of “Cry Wilderness” (1987)
SHORT REVIEW: RUN AWAY!!! Longer review: For our Saturday night pizza and bad movie, we picked one Mystery Science Theater that may have actually improved the viewing experience. This one is just nonsense. Or fine family PG-rated viewing, however you want to look at it. Plot: On a school trip, Paul Cooper (Eric Foster) wandersContinue reading “Review of “Cry Wilderness” (1987)”
Review of “At the Earth’s Core” (1977)
Svengoolie was a rerun once again, so we went to Mystery Science Theater for this gem, an adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs work. Plot: Against a backdrop of Victorian Great Britain, scientist Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) oversees the building of a giant earth-boring machine, “the iron mole.” Accompanying him on its test run throughContinue reading “Review of “At the Earth’s Core” (1977)”
Review “Trancers” (1984)
Svengoolie was yet again a rerun, a generically named Curse of Frankenstein, which I reviewed here: We tried another movie the dearly beloved saw a while ago. I remembered bits and pieces of it as well. Plot: In the year 2247, Trooper Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) patrols the mean streets of Angel City, near sunken Los(t)Continue reading “Review “Trancers” (1984)”
Reviews of Old and New Stories. Mostly Old 