Recently Watched Films

Doco about the desert scene which produced the likes of Kyuss, Fu Manchu, and more of the stoner style bands like that. Interviews with a lot of the original musicians etc.

Sounds like you saw the best possible version then.

Arrow Video, a UK company, was able to release it in their US line (both on blu-ray and 4K), but someone else holds the rights for the UK. And they seem to be just sitting on them. Sadly rights holders here have a habit of doing that with older films. BFI are sitting on the rights to a lot of Akira Kurosawa's films and never releases them on blu-ray. Meanwhile the US enjoys Criterion Collection releases of them. 

Fucking brutal!

Scary shit, but it's also surprising how dumb some of the fakers are.

While not a Lawrence of Arabia or Khartoum, this addresses some pretty weighty issues of race and religion while being a ripping yarn.Tyrone Power is excellent, while the brown-faced actors aren't quite so convincing. Still, a different time with different standards.

Low budget but reasonably good attempt at bringing a D&D quest to life. It rings reasonably true to anyone who's played D&D (well, me anyway...), in that it has a fairly basic story, black and white goodies and baddies, and a bit of dungeon crawling and puzzle solving.

B tier Brian de Palma, so still pretty good. Really heavily channelling the Hitchcock here though, most of all Vertigo. 

This is supposed to be a comedy, but even for a black comedy I don't really see it most of the time. I enjoyed the movie, though with some mixed feelings on the ending, I just didn't find it funny. It's some real dark and serious shit. And as a straight male (one who has never done anything remotely like the shit the men in this film get up to), I can't help put feel a bit attacked by this. There's not one man in this film, except perhaps her father who only appears in a few scenes and we don't really ever get to know too much about, that's portrayed completely positively. Spoiler alert; Even the 'nice guy' boyfriend turns out to not be all he appears. Don't get me wrong I was rooting for Cassie the entire time but this movie takes a very narrow view of men. I get its point, agree that it needed to be made even, but it also wouldn't have killed them for just one the men in the film Cassie does her 'not really drunk' act on to actually act like a decent human being. And let's be honest, there's also at least two female characters as well whose behaviour in the movie is also problematic. 

And there goes another movie mentioned in Science Fiction Double Feature from the Rocky Horror Show! Love Lee Tracy as the comedic newspaper man Lee Taylor, making this a horror/comedy. Fay Wray is also very good. And the synthetic flesh scene is a great example of 1930s special effects at their best.