Everyone is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Back To the Future and I'm right there with them, but I stumbled on Rankin-Bass's The Last Unicorn the other day while puttering around Tubi and a light went on. I haven't seen this movie in almost forty years. It would have been on TV or VHS, either … Continue reading Unicorns, Red Bull, and Well-Endowed Trees
Miss Angela Cruises the Nile
Hello, Ms. Fletcher... Angela Lansbury's career was nothing if not well-rounded, and one of my favorite roles of hers is that of flamboyant authoress Salome Otterbourne in 1978's Death On the Nile. Oh, this movie is fun. But we'll get to that. And no, I haven't seen the remake yet, although I'd really like to. It all … Continue reading Miss Angela Cruises the Nile
Smashie, Crashie
Here we go... Remember the 1984 Supergirl movie? I was in the second grade when it came out. I only got to see it once when it was released on VHS, but I had the Scholastic storybook of it, and I thought it was all pretty cool. Teenage girl becomes superhero, defeats the evil sorceress, and … Continue reading Smashie, Crashie