Stationary (2020)
Over one tense afternoon in a car, Jimmy (Xavian Russell, Top Boy) comes back home and comes to terms with former drug buddy Che (Rebekah Brookes-Murrell). This film also features Aaron Thomas Ward, who was in Accident Man. The beauty of this film is how it uses its limited setting to tell a much larger story. Credit […]
It’s a double Amicus Drive-In Asylum Double Feature!
Next Saturday at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook, we’re watching two examples of the venerable Amicus anthology films! Up first is the movie that promises — “Come to the asylum…to get killed!” That’s right, it’s the 1972 portmanteau Asylum! As you may know by now, there’s a drink for every movie. Get ready to layer up […]
Genevieve (2020)
Nicholas Michael Jacobs is a young man who sends us movies every once in a while, like Night, Urban Fears and Tales from Six Feet Under. Genevieve is a spin-off of that last film. In this five-minute-long story, Ted Morris is attending his son’s funeral while two criminals are breaking into his home. Those criminals want one thing: […]
Female Jungle (1955)
Lawrence Tierney plays Detective Sergeant Jack Stevens, a lawman so drunk that he doesn’t even remember killing a famous film star. Or maybe he didn’t. Life is imitating art here, as Tierney was a maniac on the order of a Kinski. Quentin Tarantino referred to him as “a complete lunatic” and an opportunity to play […]
Promises! Promises! (1963)
This 1963 movie — released betweeb the end of the Hays Code and the start of the MPAA rating system — was the first Hollywood motion picture release in decades to feature a mainstream star nude. And that star was Jayne Mansfield, bearing Marilyn Monroe in the buff in 1962’s uncompleted Something’s Got to Give. […]
Diamonds to Dust (2014)
Jayne Mansfield possessed an IQ of 163, played violin and piano at a concert level, had a degree in science, spoke 5 languages fluently and yet was known as a dumb blond. Her career was as short as her life was turbulent, with three ex-husbands, five children, addictions to booze and pills, and a car crash […]
Mill Creek Savage Cinema (and “Fast and Furious Week”) Recap!
Yeah, you know the drill . . . it’s all about those Mill Creek box sets and this Savage Cinema 12 Movie Collection pack served as the perfect fodder in supplying us with a nifty batch of obscure and off-beat, rubber-burning drive-in epics for our “Fast and Furious” tribute week to Universal Studios’ Fast and […]
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