Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/mar/12/251100/ There are bad movies, and then there are bad movies. Some movies are made with the sole intent to cause physical and mental pain to its audience. Some movies are made by directors and film crews with dim outlooks on life and low opinions of humanity. Some movies are ...
- March 12, 2013
Carnival of Souls (1962)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/jan/29/248441/ In 1947, University of Kansas alumni Russell Mosser and Arthur Wolf founded the Centron Corporation, a small Midwestern movie studio which specialized in making hygiene films that they used to show in classrooms to get kids to brush their teeth, keep clean and neat and avoid the dangers of ...
- Jan. 29, 2013
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/dec/11/246123/ I was going to think up a nice introduction for this review, but then I remembered that the title of this movie is *Santa Claus Conquers the Martians*. I'll pause for a moment to let that sink in a little. Okay, let's get started. We begin in a house ...
- Dec. 11, 2012
Yellow Submarine (1968)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/nov/20/245164/ From the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1963 would emerge a quartet which would forever change the face of popular music. What could be said about the Beatles that hasn't already been said millions of times by millions of people in the past few decades? Apart from "about time ...
- Nov. 20, 2012
The Witches (1990)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/oct/30/243940/ Ah yes. Roald Dahl. My and many a person's favorite children's author, whose books about chocolate factories, big friendly giants and telekinetic child prodigies have wowed readers for decades, and whose books have just as often been turned into feature films. Based on the eponymous book written by Dahl ...
- Oct. 30, 2012
The Black Hole (1979)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/oct/16/242995/ *The Black Hole* was a milestone for the Walt Disney studio--it was their very first PG rated production. Fifty years after the founding of the only major movie company that was devoted exclusively to squeaky-clean family-friendly entertainment, they had finally made a film where people were using CURSE WORDS. ...
- Oct. 16, 2012
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/sep/18/241373/ Karl Friedrich Heironymus, better known to the English-speaking world as Baron Munchausen, born in 1720, died in 1797, was a nobleman of German descent who served under Duke Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Luneburg in his youth, and later fought the Turks of the Ottoman Empire with the Russian army. ...
- Sept. 18, 2012
Brazil (1985)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/aug/28/240246/ *Dear Sid Sheinberg,* *When are you going to release my film, 'BRAZIL'?* *Terry Gilliam* This was from a full-page ad that Gilliam took out in a 1985 issue of *Variety*. It was addressed to Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg, whose company had obtained the U.S. distribution rights to Gilliam's ...
- Aug. 28, 2012
Time Bandits (1981)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2012/jul/31/238537/ The 1980s were a golden age for sci-fi/fantasy movies. Before hobbits, teenage wizards and CG effects dominated the market, you had movies like *Labyrinth*, *The Dark Crystal*, *Tron*, *The Neverending Story*, *Gremlins*, *Ghostbusters* one AND two, the original *Indiana Jones* and *Conan the Barbarian* movies, two of the first ...
- July 31, 2012
Demolition Man (1993)
http://www.lawrence.com/users/alaffert/photos/2012/jun/19/236456/ The year is 1993, and Sly Stallone's career had fallen on hard times. His reputation as an actor had been tainted with such cinematic disasters as *Rocky V*, *Oscar*, and *Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!*, and the Iron Curtain had fallen two years ago which meant there were ...
- June 19, 2012
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