TWO BROTHERS HAVE MORE THAN JUST A FEW WRINKLES TO IRON OUT IN 2016’s “MOUNTAIN MEN” – CANADIAN OUTDOOR DRAMEDY
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Mountain Men is a movie that straddles the line (more than several times in fact) between comedy and drama or more specifically, outdoor survival adventure. Deciding if it wants to be one or the other seems to have been a major complaint with movie fans but I found the balance of the two spot-on. Somehow they make me care for these characters and even though the brother reconciliation thing has been put out in a million flavors past, I enjoyed the way they tied the whole lesson-learned aspect together, nice and subtle. All in all I was pleasantly surprised with this one, my first time seeing Tyler Labine, a charismatic actor with hopefully many more great performances to come. both leads are great. If you enjoy Canadian films as much as I generally do, you’ll dig this!
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OPENING DAY SPECIAL FEATURE! – TOMMY’S TOP 5 JERRY LEWIS COMEDY MOVIES BY TRAILERS
Not necessarily in any order but Who’s Minding The Store is my #1
Jerry employed at a high-scale mental institution…oh what larks!
Jerry plays 7 different roles in this 1965 charmer, the plane sequence with him as a pilot is best.
The Patsy, one of his very best.
Who could resist the Great Dane “Mister Bascom” who gets a whole lotta screen time in this road trip to Hollywood. A great film, ole LA folk will love the Hollywood Bowl and Chinese Theater scenes at end.
ARE YOU WEARING A "MASK"? – REVISITING AN ’85 GEM W/ ERIC STOLTZ AS ROCKY DENNIS – THE HORROR!
Sam Elliot at his Sam Elliot best. The amazing woman known as Cher hits the ball clear over the fences in this beacon of 80’s cinema. All the right components come together in a film with a priceless message- what we are on the outside is not always how we are on the inside. One that since the dawn of mankind still hasn’t been learned…..The Horror!! Pinewoods Rating System – Five Pinewoods, a true classic.
Mask Movie Review & Film Summary (1985) | Roger Ebert
When we see him for the first time, it’s a glimpse through his bedroom window, half-reflected in a mirror. A second later, we see him more clearly, this teenage boy with the strange face. We are shocked for a second, until he starts to talk, and then, without effort, we accept him as a normal kid who has had an abnormal thing happen to him.
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Movie Review – – FILM: ‘MASK,’ BOGDANOVICH TALE OF A RARE DISEASE – NYTimes.com
”Mask,” the year’s first major fatal disease movie, is Peter Bogdanovich’s California- biker version of ”The Elephant Man.” The film, opening today at the New York Twin Theater, is based on the true story of Rocky Dennis.
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FROM THE BLACK CROWES ARCHIVES! – "8-8-8" AN APT TITLE FOR RARE ’08 COLUMBUS SHOW – THE HORROR!!
Greetings all and Horrific Fried Day to ya. My apologies for the downtrend in quantity of posts lately, hopefully we can correct that a bit this weekend. In this next room it’s a very rare 2008 Crowes show from the Warpaint tour, notable for the rarely covered “Senor” by Bob Dylan and performances of 6 of the 10 Warpaint songs. Put it all together and you have…..The Horror!! 7daylink Set list. Aud Rating A-
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THE HORROR THAT IS "LED ZEPPELIN LIVE 1973 CONCERT MATRIX"! – A FAN MADE COMPILATION VARIOUS SHOWS
Pretty cool fan-made compilation, we only know the list of songs and not sources. Every song is soundboard and the song list is almost comprehensive but looks like the fan missed Communication Breakdown which was played here and there as an encore that year, all in all a very nicely done compilation..The Horror!!
BLACULA WAKES AGAIN…..THE HORROR!!
CLASSIC BLACK SABBATH VINYL BOOT! – THE HORROR KNOWN AS "RAT SALAD" – EARLY 1970 BERLIN SHOW
Greetings folks – A French vinyl boot put out in 1990, the show itself is the first known Sabbath boot of any kind, an early show that includes the infamous pre-album version of War Pigs with slightly different lyrics. I’ve posted this a couple times in the last 5 years and it’s always very popular so N-Joy…The Horror!! Vinyl rip of above, Discogs Info Rating A
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BARBARA BACH IS A REPORTER TRAPPED INSIDE A HOUSE WITH "THE UNSEEN"!! – 1980 SHEER HORROR!
Oh my, the You Tube robots have done it again- washing up on my shore as a “recommendation” (just what exactly are they trying to say?) I knew about 5 minutes into this one it was a B-flick of unique caliber, perfect for THOH. You can read some real reviews below, it’s a mix of good and bad, points for the story, casting and Sydney Lassick, thumbs down for a lot of the production, a bit of a tangled mess at times. Using my Pinewoods Rating System, The Unseen gets One & 1/2 Pinewood….The Horror!!
The Unseen (1980)
“The Unseen” is one of those movies I missed on its first few tours of duty; I wasn’t interested in it enough to beg my parents to take me to see it at the drive-in, and it didn’t run long enough on HBO for me to get the chance to stay up past my bedtime and watch it.
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The Unseen (1980)
The Unseen is a 1980 American horror film directed by Danny Steinmann [as Peter Foleg] from an [uncredited] screenplay by Michael L. Grace. Director Steinmann, who later directed gory movies Savage Streets and Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, apparently fell out with the producers during post-production, hence the use of a pseudonym.
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GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 1971! – HONOLULU SOUNDBOARD CLOSES THE WEEK OUT – THE HORROR!!
Picture above is about 2 weeks after this show when they got hit with torrential rain onstage in Tokyo. This Honolulu show is one of those “quite good for the time period” kind of soundboards, pretty nice actually and the performance is a typical high energy raucous GFR, one of the greatest three-piece bands ever….next to Rush of course…..The Horror!! Set list/info. Streaming below.
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STONES 1968-1976! – THE HORROR KNOWN AS "OUTTAKES SAMPLER" – A FAN MADE COMP OF 15 TRX
Greetings again! Got this one as a bonus in a trade bout 20 years ago. The trader put it together from 15 different outtakes bootlegs, all I can say is….The Horror!! 7daylink List in photo below. Rating A+
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STONES 1963-1965! – THE VINYL BOOT HORROR KNOWN AS "BEAUTIFUL DELILAH" ON TRADE MARK OF HORRORS
Couple of Stones goodies comin’ up, another classic Trade Mark Of Quality vinyl boot all the way from Hollywood 1974. Ah yes, I must say that discovering the vinyl store at age 11 and buying “all meat music” as my first boot definitely altered the course of my life in some majorly positive ways. Thanks to Ed at Ed’s Attic, first for being a pack rat and second for this vinyl rip…..The Horror!! 7daylink Info from Bootlegpedia. Rating A-
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VINCENT GALLO IS "TETRO" IN THIS 2009 COPPOLA – EVERY FAMILY HAS A SECRET BUT THIS IS..THE HORROR!
For those that may think Coppola’s last good flick was Apocalypse Now, we submit for your approval 2009’s Tetro, Filmed in black & white and color (for the flashback sequences) in Buenos Aires, as to be expected the photography is gorgeous. The “family secret” dramatic story plays out well and the cast is spot-on. A hugely overlooked film and I’ll go ahead and admit it online to the whole world that I’m a Vincent Gallo fan…..The Horror!! Pinewoods Rating System – Three & 1/2 Pinewoods
Tetro Movie Review & Film Summary (2009) | Roger Ebert
“Tetro” may be the most autobiographical film Francis Ford Coppola has made. He said at Cannes “nothing in it happened, but it’s all true.” I guess I know what that means. He could be describing any “autobiographical” film or novel.
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Coppola’s “Tetro” – Sons and the Father Who Dominated Them
And so, much like Mr. Coppola’s own filmmaking past, the old man looms. Hollywood haunts “Tetro” just as Carlo haunts his sons. Eschewing the inexorable forward thrust of most contemporary studio products, Mr. Coppola, working from his own screenplay – his first original one since “The Conversation” in 1974 – drifts and circles around his themes much as Bennie and Tetro amble around town.
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Beautiful Argentine actress Mirabel Verdu totally kills it as Tetro’s girlfriend “Miranda.”
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THOH ARCHIVES MAY 2017 