WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Lord Love a Duck (1966)
If you’ve ever wondered how the sugary, surf-sprayed innocence of the Frankie and Annette era curdled into the nihilistic, neon-soaked cynicism of the 1970s, look no further than George Axelrod’s Lord Love a Duck. This isn’t just a movie. It’s a scorched-earth policy directed at the American Dream, wrapped in a high school blazer and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Long Goodbye (1973)
Directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who co-wrote the screenplay for Chandler’s The Big Sleep), who said that United Artists demanded that “either you take Elliott Gould or you don’t make the film. Elliott Gould was not exactly my idea of Philip Marlowe, but […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Long Arm of the Godfather (1975)
The movie opens with a high-stakes military heist that feels more like a war film than a mafia flick, as Vincenzo (Peter Lee Lawrence) and his crew ambush an army convoy to steal a crate of rifles. Vincenzo’s fatal mistake isn’t just stealing from Don Carmelo (Adolfo Celi); it’s his arrogance. He believes he can […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Loaded Guns (1975)
Nora Green (Ursula Andress) is a flight attendant who is asked to deliver a letter to a circus led by Silvera (Woody Strode) when she lands in Naples. This gets her in the middle of a gang war. She’s beaten up and thrown to what should be her doom, but she somehow survives. Working with […]
DIA IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!
This Saturday on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels at 8 PM EDT, join us for two bizarre screamers from the late 60s, Fear Chamber (AKA Torture Zone) and The Embalmer (AKA The Monster of Venice). They may have been lurking on the outskirts of your awareness, waiting for the right time to pounce on you […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 1: Ernest In the Army (1998)
April 1: Fool Me! — Share a foolish film for the holiday. In the ninth and final film in the Ernest series, this time, we find our hero, Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney), wanting to drive a big rig and somehow enlisting in the Army reserves. It’s a big leap from being the golf ball […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Libertine (1968)
In the rigid, Catholic-guilt-soaked landscape of late 60s Italy, a widow wasn’t supposed to do much besides wear black, weep over a portrait of her departed husband, and perhaps consult a priest about her loneliness. But Mimi (the ethereal, wide-eyed Catherine Spaak) isn’t interested in the script society wrote for her. When her husband, Franco, […]
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