Beyond and Back (1978)
This Sunn Classics Pictures release isn’t just a movie Roger Ebert hated. He said, “Gives turkeys a bad name. It exists on about the same cinematic level as an Army training film or one of those junior high chemistry movies in which the experiments never quite worked.” He had it on his list of most […]
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)
Robert Guenette took his experience working for Sunn Classics and made this movie, which decimated my childhood with its airings on HBO. Seriously, even if I saw only a moment of movie, my nine-year-old self would have the worst anxiety you’ve ever felt. Orson Welles hosted this, despite the fact that he didn’t really believe […]
Shake Hands with Danger (1980)
“Shake hands with danger/ Any guy oughta know/ I used to laugh at safety/ But now they call me… Three Finger Joe.” Shake Hands with Danger is perhaps the best industrial training movie about Caterpillar equipment that I have ever seen, twenty transcendent minutes. “Glenn knows the risk of striking hard against badly chipped metal, […]
Rocaterrania (2009)
Renaldo Kuhler was a scientific illustrator who invented an imaginary country to survive his childhood and kept his country alive throughout his entire life. He drew every single person in this country, knew their songs and is able to tell you the history and geography of this country, which of course does not exist. The […]
Princely Toys: The Private Kingdom of Jack Donovan (1976)
The wonderful folks at White Slaves of Chinatown are responsible for so many of the movies that we watched during this week of weird docs and educational films. This one may be the strangest they’ve shared, which is saying so much. It’s all about the 19th-century automaton collection of Jack Donovan set to strange synth music […]
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena (1976)
Man, those guys at Sunn made so many of these and I feel sad, because I’m starting to run out of their films to enjoy. Well, this time, they told Brad Crandall to stay home and brought in the big guns. And by big guns, I mean Raymond Burr. This movie astounded me as a […]
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