Summer Movie Preview II

This looks fun...


...and this looks really good...

Summer Movie Preview I

Loved One, hated Two, sat-out Three, Number Four has mermaids...I'm in!



Great cast!

Ready To Go Surfing Again

I loves me some Blue Crush, the 2002 movie about female surfers. I also loves me some crappy made-for-DVD sequels to movies I love. So, I'm all in for this upcoming flick... Agee!

Fantastic Trailer

Last week I mentioned the smutty classic Hardbodies, another film in the genre of "Let's Go To The Beach And Engage In Empty Sexual Relations." It's a fun little film and it still holds up in it's own silly little way. I want you to watch the original theatrical trailer for this movie. While I do enjoy the film, this trailer is so much better than the movie. If I had seen this trailer in the theatre (especially when I was 11, when the movie came out) I would have went absolutely bonkers for it. Hardbodies in no way lives up to the wacky zaniness that this promotional piece suggests. If you've seen the film and then the trailer, it's almost as if Columbia Pictures was straight up telling you they were putting out the stupidest, crappiest movie they've ever made.

A Coming Attractions Memory

Faithful commentor Scott has been sharing memories of going to movies in the 1970s at the fondly-remembered Dolton Theater.

By coincidence, I found a frame of the infamous Coming Attractions announcement that greeted us at the Dolton each week. This was standard, along with the animated popcorn boxes and soda cups singing "Let's all go to the lobby and get ourselves a treat." I need to find a screen grab of that too.

But this Coming Attractions trailer was scratchy and loaded with splices, and we were always happy to see it. That funky 1970s music heard through the splices was a hoot, but so what? We were about to witness tantalizing glimpses of a horror, science fiction, car chase action picture, comedy or western coming to the Dolton in the weeks ahead. The excitment was almost unbearable.

If memory serves, Tarantino and Rodriquez used this same Coming Attractions announcement in in their wonderfully fake trailers in last year's "Grindhouse."