by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 25, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider, Uncategorized
Aliens try to invade a housing project in South London? They may want to rethink that plan… A funny thing happened on The CW a while back: they actually took a short break from spewing out lame-ass pretty-boy fantasy crap and broadcast a real tough-guy...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 24, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider, Uncategorized
It’s a Poe-pourri (sorry, couldn’t resist) of the sublime and/or ridiculous droppin’ true this Tue. If you haven’t seen Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity by now, what the hell is wrong with you? Unless you have a note from your doctor about a...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 24, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider, Uncategorized
It’s time for UnderSunday: The Zombie Edition Truth #1: There are way too many zombie movies. Truth #2: Most of them are unutterably awful. Amateurish, lazy, needlessly gory and humorless OR jokey, precious, needlessly gory and silly. We’re not talking...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
It was all so long ago. It was all so beautiful then. And far too many of us here at AmitvyilleNow International HQ actually remember this movie from Saturday Morning TV c. 1960 or so. Look at it: Lloyd Bridges from his Sea Hunt days. Hugh O’Brian from Wyatt...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 3, 2014 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
Yeah, we’re trying to start a trend. Think of it as the next #FollowFriday, but cool. We’re putting up 5 movies, old and/or new that never got the attention they deserve(d). (Hey, great log line, what?) And two sentences — TWO SENTENCES ONLY —...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 1, 2014 | Blog, Slider, Uncategorized
Wait .. it’s not a joke? Seriously? Is there no end of the contempt that some moviemakers have for their source material? We should have seen where this was going with Man of Steel. The callous rconfiguration of Pa Kent as a bitter old man, the virtual...