Category: Film

Laurel Hill Cemetery

I was watching Creed II and saw Adrian Balboa’s grave marker. I wondered if it was really in a cemetery. It is! It’s in the really odd Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia which I visited on September 2, 2011. It’s got General Meade (Northern general who won Gettysburg) and Confederate soldiers. It has a store which sells stuff like Death Mints. It has Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas’ grave and a museum-style collection of his memorabilia. You have to see the grave. It has Veterans Stadium seats (which you can still get from Archer Seating) and a giant microphone.

Here are my pictures and clips I found on YouTube.


https://totalrocky.com/filming-location-guide/laurel-hill-cemetery.html

Stanley Donen

Film director Stanley Donen passed away this week. He is best known for musicals he did with Gene Kelly such as Singing in the Rain but he also directed Charade, the last film I saw at Radio City Music Hall before we moved away from New York.

This is an excellent film – much less upbeat than most musicals. Andre Previn also died recently.

Baragon!

Movie monster from the 1960s

The movie monster from the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baragon

Cutter’s Way

This is a very unusual film that is well worth seeing.

https://twitter.com/JonathanRosenba/status/1073809346872700928
The director of Cutter’s Way

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) was 30 years old on November 24 , 2018.  Season 12 (six episodes) is on Netflix now.

I attended the live show with the new cast on August 9, 2017.  They did a great job on the terrible film Eegah.

The photo above is me (second from left) with the cast at the show.

 

Sharknado

I’m not going to tell you that the Sharknado movies are art but I have watched them the last two years on the day of my annual cancer test.  I’m a little out of it after the test but still sharp enough to follow a Sharknado film.

There’s even a story that Trump threatened to shut down filming of the third one because he didn’t get to play the president.

The cast for the third film was amazing.  It included:

Mark Cuban

Ann Coulter

Jared Fogle (the Subway pervert before we know about his behavior)

Anthony Weiner (after we knew about his sexting)

David Hasselhoff

Michael Winslow

Bo Derek

Lou Ferrigno

Jackie Collins

Robert Klein

Jerry Springer

Penn and Teller

Michele Bachman

Chad Johnson

Kathie Lee Gifford