WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Darktown Strutters (1977)
George Armitage wrote Gas-s-s-s, Private Duty Nurses, Night Call Nurses and Vigilante Force before scoring mainstream success with Miami Blues and Grosse Point Blank. He told Film Comment, “I wrote Darktown Strutters in three days, and the script form is all one sentence, the entire script is one sentence.” While he had wanted to direct this, William Witney ended up making it. […]
Where Is Juan Moctezuma? (2025)
According to the filmmakers, “Legendary 1970s Mexican horror film auteur Juan F. Moctezuma II reportedly influenced the work of mega-directors Guillermo del Toro, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Raimi and more. But the last film Moctezuma made and his first in Hollywood, produced by Roger Corman, 1000 Paths of Death, was surrounded in mystery because it was […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Dark Star (1974)
As a kid, I was obsessed with seeing Dark Star. This film, which combined the talents of John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon, Ron Cobb, Greg Jein, and Bob Greenberg, was frequently featured in the pages of Starlog. When I finally saw it — it played theaters until 1980, and then I was able to rent it when […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Darker Than Amber (1970)
Travis McGee was created by John D. MacDonald and is neither a police officer nor a private investigator. He claims to be a “salvage consultant” who reclaims others’ property for a fee of 50 percent. He lives on a 52-foot houseboat, The Busted Flush, named for a thirty-hour poker game in which he won the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Dark Age (1987)
Poachers want to kill a 25-foot alligator, and it turns the tables on them, with only John Besser (Max Phipps) surviving. Ranger Steve Harris (John Jarratt), Aboriginal leader Oondabund (Burnum Burnum), and his second-in-command, Adjaral (David Gulpilil), come to save the man, who decides that he must kill the gator. After the alligator kills a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Dark (1979)
Bill Van Ryn from Groovy Doom/Drive-In Asylum explained this movie short and sweet: “It’s like an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker without Kolchak.” It’s also about the press freaking out about an eight-foot-tall alien who is killing people who eyebeam lasers in the dirty and dingy streets of Los Angeles. It was initially about an autistic child […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Babygirl (2024)
Sept 1-7 John Waters Best of the Year Week: To be fair, these movies aren’t ALL funny, but JOHN WATERS is funny. He’s become more of a writer and public commentator these days. Still, he helps keep the arthouse from taking itself too seriously with his annual top-ten lists, while celebrating the comically serious. I’m […]
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