ROBOT MONSTER (1953)

 

Directed by: Phil Tucker

Starring: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong, Gregory Moffett, Pamela Paulson, George Barrows, John Brown

66 minutes

(NR - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine!

ACTUAL MOVIE:

MOVIE CRAZY (1932)

 

Directed by: Clyde Bruckman

Starring: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson, Louise Closser Hale, Spencer Charters, Robert McWade, Eddie Fetherston, Sydney Jarvis, Harold Goodwin, Mary Doran, DeWitt Jennings, Lucy Beaumont, Arthur Housman, Grady Sutton, Noah Young, Edward Peil Sr.

97 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic genius.

THE APARTMENT (1960)

 

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday, Edie Adams, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Hal Smith

125 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger are now feeling neglected as Baxter no longer needs their assistance in moving up.

REVIEW:

EVERYTHING IS FREE (2019)

 

Directed by: Brian Jordan Alvarez

Starring: Brian Jordan Alvarez, Morgan Krantz, Peter Vack, Bruce Bundy, Jason Greene, Daniele Watts, Jon Ebeling, Ken Kirby, Judilin Bosita, Jimmy Fowlie, Stephanie Koenig, Kurt Zaehsdorf

88 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, graphic nudity)

PLOT:

Ivan is an American painter residing in Colombia. He is visited by his best friend, Christian, along with his younger brother, Cole. Somewhere along the way, Ivan and Cole hit it off although Cole is not gay (so he says). Will older brother Christian be okay with that? As they say, true love conquers all, even if it takes years.

EVIL DEAD RISE (2023)

 

Directed by: Lee Cronin

Starring: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher, Noah Paul, Richard Crouchley, Mirabai Pease, Anna-Maree Thomas, Jayden Daniels, Billy Reynolds-McCarthy, Tai Wano, Mark Mitchinson

97 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic violence, gore)

PLOT:

As an unstoppable force of nature destroys the awkward reunion of two sisters, a strange book emerges. Now, single mum Ellie's Los Angeles apartment complex becomes part of the mysterious tome's dark history, unearthing its ancient, blood-curdling secrets. But the unimaginable menace that has emerged now demands blood. And as possession opens the gates to a nightmarish dimension of evil wonders and pain, the shattered family must answer a crucial question. What would you do if mummy wanted to kill you?

TRAILER:

EVIL DEAD (2013)

 

Directed by: Fede Alvarez

Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore, Phoenix Connolly, Jim McLarty, Sian Davis, Stephen Butterworth, Karl Willetts, Randal Wilson, Rupert Degas, Bruce Campbell

92 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic violence, gore, drug references)

PLOT:

Five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.

TRAILER:

ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992)

 

Directed by: Sam Raimi

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove, Timothy Patrick Quill, Michael Earl Reid, Bill Moseley, Patricia Tallman, Ted Raimi, Angela Featherstone, Bridget Fonda

88 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

As the unfathomable tentacles of evil spread across time and space, Ash finds himself whisked off to another dimension. Now, trapped in the distant Middle Ages, circa 1300 AD, battle-scarred Ash must fight tooth and nail against the same old adversary he confronted in his cabin in the woods. However, this time, he is neck-deep in trouble: not one, not two demons, but the entire army of darkness is after Ash, thirsting for his soul. And what's more, there is no turning back. Can the guy with the chainsaw and the 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun blast evil to smithereens and save both worlds from the curse of the mystical Necronomicon?

TRAILER: