It’s All About People

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It's a great day for the Irish... We all know 2020 was a strange year, not only because it felt like the hits just kept on coming, but how we relate to each other was turned on its head. Certain salespeople would have us believe that being apart is no problem. Just get on Zoom … Continue reading It’s All About People

Be Kind, Rewind

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Click... Ah, Red Dwarf. Part Star Trek send-up, part Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy and part sitcom, it's original enough that it's taken on a life of its own since its 1988 debut. It's such a big deal that the Red Dwarf Fan Club holds a convention every year, with cosplay and panel discussions with cast members. There … Continue reading Be Kind, Rewind

I Just Want To Be Evil

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Joan Collins, darlings, and not a swimming pool in sight. As we've talked about before, Hollywood lined up to guest star on the Batman TV show, and one of the favored few was Joan Collins, who played a wily woman known as the Siren. She was fresh off an appearance on Star Trek and not well-known to … Continue reading I Just Want To Be Evil

So Bad It’s Good 2021: Wrapup

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We have come to the end of the blogathon, friends, and I hope you've all enjoyed this as much as I have. Obviously this would be the space for late posts, but there aren't any--every single participant got their entries in on time. Woo hoo! If anyone's missed anything, here are Days One, Two, and … Continue reading So Bad It’s Good 2021: Wrapup

Can’t Unsee This

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Day Three. Oh boy. We've gone from Bad to Really Bad to Makes Birdemic Look Like Citizen Kane. I'm talking about the pungently trashy Killer Piñata. Gee, wonder what the plot of this little 2015 film is gonna be? The first few minutes are harbingers of the hilarity to come. A shopkeeper (Joette Waters) with a hook for a … Continue reading Can’t Unsee This

Resistance Is Futile

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Ah yes, the infamous folks at Asylum just can't be kept down, and everything is mockbuster fodder. Not even Michael Bay's Transformers is safe. Asylum went there...kinda...in their 2007 flick, Transmorphers. Yeah. Morphers. Sigh. All the excitement of invading alien robots without excitement (or fun), and without explosions every five minutes. Come to think of it, … Continue reading Resistance Is Futile

So Bad It’s Good 2021: Day Two

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We're back! Hope everyone enjoyed yesterday's posts, and now it's time for our second dose of badness. As always, please send me your wonderful entries throughout today and I'll add them as soon as possible. Day One can be found here. Are you ready? Here we go... Michael from Maniacs and Monsters starts us off with … Continue reading So Bad It’s Good 2021: Day Two

The Third So Bad It’s Good Blogathon Has Arrived

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We're here, friends. It is time. Are you ready? Me, I'm just glad Conference Week is almost over. Muh brain feels a wee bit fried. Anyway, you all know the drill, but I'll reiterate it: Please send me your posts throughout the weekend and I'll add them as soon as I can for your reading pleasure. I … Continue reading The Third So Bad It’s Good Blogathon Has Arrived

Low Budget Badness

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Are y'all ready for this? Ah, 1960s camp meets Atomic Age scifi. It's a universe full of cigar-shaped spacecraft and jerky stop-motion monsters, of bad special effects and wooden acting. Interstellar travel, something mankind had dreamed about for hundreds of years, was suddenly on the verge of attainability, and yet we weren't quite there. We … Continue reading Low Budget Badness

The Robinsons Jump the Shark

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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me... Except for maybe the 1940 version, it's odd that Swiss Family Robinson has several adaptations beside the 1960 Disney classic. Why mess with a good thing, right? On the other hand, it's an easily tweakable formula. Find a family who are at odds with each other, … Continue reading The Robinsons Jump the Shark

One Week Until the Third So Bad It’s Good Blogathon

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We're almost there, folks. Seven days and counting until we flinch at the hilariously hideous, the ludicrously laughable, the cringingly crazy. The Razzies have nada on the So Bad It's Good Blogathon. Well, they have those shiny statuettes, but we have...passion. Yeah, that's it. We have scads of passion. 🙂 In my case, there's also … Continue reading One Week Until the Third So Bad It’s Good Blogathon

The Course of True Love

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And now for our second Austen film in a month. That's kind of a record for this blog... 🙂 One of the nicest Jane Austen films in my opinion is the graceful and lovely Sense and Sensibility. This 1995 charmer won Emma Thompson an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe … Continue reading The Course of True Love

Make Me A Match

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*harp music playing* Nobody does romance quite like Jane Austen, and today we're going to look at the 1996 film, Emma, featuring a young Gwyneth Paltrow before Goop, a young Ewan McGregor before Obi Wan, and a young Toni Collette before almost everything else she's done. And we can't forget Jeremy North as the super-romantic Mr. Knightley. … Continue reading Make Me A Match

Warts and All

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Obviously, not every family is perfect. There are families that are together in name only, and sometimes not even that. Even seemingly perfect families may not be so perfect under the surface because the plain and simple fact is that we're all human. Regardless of which scenario applies, life often forces us to deal with … Continue reading Warts and All