Rudy Ray Moore made movies and records. I have seen four of his films and think they’re well worth watching. Eddie Murphy plays Moore in the Netflix film Dolemite is My Name. Vinegar Syndrome has released four of his films from the 1970s on Blu-ray: Dolemite, The Human Tornado, Petey Wheatstraw and Disco Godfather.
I have also included links to the films on YouTube.
After the huge, unexpected success of DOLEMITE, Rudy Ray Moore knew he had to get more outrageous in THE HUMAN TORNADO.
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) is an excellent film based on a fine autobiographical novel by Joe Connelly. It’s not even on Blu-ray. I have the DVD.
.@patrickdahlyes's piece on this is fantastic btw, a great short appraisal of a movie that on some days I think might be Scorsese's best: https://t.co/0iFunuaVG1
Here's a personal story about trauma, healing, and staying up all night to find humanity with Martin Scorsese and Nicolas Cage in 'Bringing Out The Dead': https://t.co/mzbNZVNArMpic.twitter.com/UXn9ce0hbl
Orangey starred in films and TV shows. I haven’t seen Rhurbarb but this tweet led me to find out more about the cat.
In RHUBARB (Arthur Lubin,1951), Orangey the cat gives what might be the most naturalistic performance ever given by a cat in a film. (The movie is about a cat that inherents a baseball team from an eccentric millionaire.)
The Stoogeum is a museum devoted to the Three Stooges in Ambler, PA. It’s only open by appointment now and is in a business park. It sure doesn’t look like a museum from the outside.
Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) is an entertaining South Korean monster film. The monster reminds me of 1950s films – it’s a person in a suit. It was thought to be lost but was recently found. The video quality on the Blu-ray disc was surprisingly good.
LOST NO MORE!!
It’s hard to describe how surreal and amazing it is to finally have a copy of SPACE MONSTER WANGMAGWI in my collection. After decades of being thought lost and/or unreleasable, it’s finally here. @SRSCinema truly made the impossible possible with this release! 📀 pic.twitter.com/9l5iet4yUP
— Godzilla Novelization Project (@Danzilla93_GNP) January 20, 2023
Fellow BUSTER KEATON fans will want to listen to Jim Jarmusch tell the story of how if it hadn’t been for JAMES MASON buying a house in Los Angeles in the 1980’s every single film Buster made would’ve been lost to us forever.
BUSTER KEATON lost his Beverly Hills mansion in the 1920s in a rancorous divorce. It was eventually bought by JAMES MASON in 1948 & had it not been for the accidental discovery in the 80’s of original prints of Buster’s films most of Buster work would’ve been lost to us forever. pic.twitter.com/sxPDKxPhGZ
Thank you @CBSSunday and @Pogue for this wonderful story on Buster Keaton. Awesome to hear Dana Stevens @thehighsign and Bill Irwin discuss his genius and fun to have friends text me that I was on the airport TV.
This tweet reminded me of both the film and the book. The book is lesser Graham Greene and the film is lesser Carol Reed but they are sophisticated fun and well worth reading and seeing. The movie was filmed in Cuba and has a great cast.
Ernest Hemingway, Noël Coward and Alec Guinness on location at Sloppy Joe’s in Cuba whilst shooting ‘Our Man In Havana’ in 1959.
Remarkably, Fidel Castro allowed filming for "Our Man in Havana" with Alec Guinness and Maureen O'Hara to actually take place in Cuba, just two months after the Revolution. Besides being a great movie, it offers a rare glimpse of Havana, including the legendary bar "Sloppy Joes." pic.twitter.com/CsnNLoeIDU
Ernie Kovacs & Alec Guinness in a wonderful scene from Our Man in Havana. Guinness & Maureen O'Hara were introduced to Cuba's new leader, Fidel Castro, but I don't believe the two great cigar-smokers met. 📷 Peter Stackpole, 1959 pic.twitter.com/mNSXBJRvyv
Was a little disappointed to see no Hawks in the S&S poll but was then massively cheered up by John Carpenter’s heroic but doomed attempt to rectify the situation unilaterally pic.twitter.com/QLUiL3ZEQV
already been shared around but whatever we’re at the end so shoutout to bong joon-ho for being one of the only director’s to put cure and zodiac on his ballot pic.twitter.com/exEQ3vRSuH
This was released today. It comes out every 10 years. I think the greatest film ever is Rules of the Game (1939) directed by Jean Renoir. I would put Citizen Kane (1941) second.
There are five Torrente films all directed, starring and written by Santiago Segura. I first saw Segura in excellent films by Alex de la Iglesia. I was especially impressed by his performance in Dying of Laughter and decided to find more films of his.
Torrente is a disgusting bigot, coward, and liar. He is racist, anti-Asian, and anti-gay but I don’t recall any antisemitism. I think the character could be established as a bad guy without all of the bigotry but overall the films are very amusing in a tasteless way. Torrente reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton’s Bad Santa and the films of W. C. Fields. Look at the Tip #1 video below to get an idea of what he is like.
The firsts four films were released on DVD and I have seen them all.
The New York Times article linked to below is well worth reading.