CHROME AND HOT LEATHER (1971) THE Marvin Gaye made his big-screen debut in this relentlessly absurd example of the bad biker films of the 1960s and 1970s.
When a Green Beret’s fiancee (played by THE Cheryl Ladd) is killed he and some of his service buddies pose as bikers to track down the motorcycle gang responsible for her death.
Words cannot describe how enjoyably awful this movie is from start to finish. Continue reading
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THE AFTERMAN (1985) – Balladeer’s Blog’s Weirdness at the End of the World category of movies returns with this bizarre little honey. The Afterman also marks the return of my sub-category “Those Darn Belgians.” Yes, just like Rabid Grannies this flick was created in Belgium.
Written and directed by Rob Van Eyck, The Afterman is in color but features no dialogue outside of periodic screams and groans. You might think that qualifies this roughly 90 minute movie as an Arthouse Film, and many people do. I would instead call it a sleazy and exploitative blend of The People Who Own the Dark, Finis Homini and Quest for Fire.
The story opens up in the year 2011. For twenty years our lead character, called simply the Man, has been living in a high-tech bomb shelter. The shelter was stocked with plenty of aerosol spray-food from “futuristic” 1991, when the nukes fell. Elaborate security cameras and leftover news reels have been almost the only diversions the Man has had for two decades, aside from drawing sketches.
The “almost” leads us to my need to let readers with more conventional tastes know that this is ANOTHER of those weirdass movies that would likely gross you out physically and prove morally repugnant. I’m never sure if these warnings make people avoid reviews like this or drive people TO read them, but here we go – DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO AVOID DISTURBING DETAILS. Continue reading
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Not since 1936 have the Olympics been hosted by a regime so disgraceful.
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association) DIVISION ONE – 1. UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS (TX) CELTS ### 2. PAUL QUINN COLLEGE TIGERS (should be the Farmers) ### 3. CLINTON COLLEGE GOLDEN BEARS ### 4. BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE AT ALBANY BOBCATS ###
5. FLORIDA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CONQUISTADORS ### 6. OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY AMBASSADORS (Defending National Champions) ### 7. MANOR COLLEGE BLUE JAYS ### 8. UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS CRUSADERS ###
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It’s the latest installment of Faculty Lounge Fascist Roundup! It’s no secret that privileged white Democrats aka “baizuos” have distorted the educational system into a partisan “church” of irrational thought and ugly intolerance.
CLEMSON ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR SAYS REPUBLICAN APPLICANTS ARE PART OF AN “OPPRESSIVE GROUP.”
COLORADO STATE OFFERS GENTLE CARE FOR STUDENTS TRAUMATIZED BY “FREE SPEECH EVENT.”
DEMOCRATS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PROMOTE “CRY ROOM” FOR STUDENTS OFFENDED BY TWEETS. Another example of the emotional cripples who pretend to be college students now.
TEACHER MADE WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS APOLOGIZE TO BLACK STUDENTS FOR BEING WHITE. Democrats just cannot stop pushing racial division and hatred.
DEMOCRAT TEACHERS UNION HEAD CALLS PARENTS WHO ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS “RACISTS“. As I was saying … Continue reading
For Part One of this series click HERE.
CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON Vol 1 #168 (December 1973)
Title: And A Phoenix Shall Arise
Villain: Phoenix (The son of the original Baron Zemo) FIRST APPEARANCE
Synopsis: We pick up an unknown number of weeks or months after the end of the Yellow Claw storyline. In the intervening time period Captain America was in action with the Avengers saving the universe from Dormammu and Loki alongside the Defenders.
Captain America and the Falcon are out on their nightly patrol looking for crime. At length they pause on a rooftop to discuss how much guilt that Steve (Cap) still feels about the way that the long-lost Peggy Carter is still adjusting to the years she lost in the mental hospital.
And, sadly, has been relying on Cap more and more to cope with the modern world since he went through a similar experience when the Avengers found him frozen in suspended animation years ago. Worst of all is the way that Peggy thinks that she and Steve/ Cap are still an item even though in the years that she was gone he and Sharon Carter, Peggy’s much younger sister, have fallen in love.
NOTE: Over the decades, as the World War Two era was left further and further behind, Marvel retconned it so that Sharon was really Peggy’s niece, then grand-niece, etc instead of her younger sister.
Without warning, Steve and Sam (Falcon) are attacked by a new supervillain calling himself the Phoenix and using a high-tech rifle that shoots deadly energy rays. Phoenix taunts Cap that he has a grievance to settle with him, puzzling our hero, who doesn’t recognize him. Continue reading
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Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog often highlights the latest dispatches from the virtual war that privileged white Democrats continue to wage on the rest of us. Like the way more innocent children were just killed because Joe Biden hopes to improve his 33% approval rating.
JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES CAUSE THE LOSS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE JOBS. More HERE. And HERE. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continues.
BLACK AMERICANS SUE THE DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK CITY WHO GAVE VOTING RIGHTS TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. Democrats are already pushing to extend that NYC policy to the rest of the nation.
LATEST REPORT REVEALS THAT THE BIDEN REGIME ABANDONED ROUGHLY NINE THOUSAND AMERICANS IN AFGHANISTAN. Biden and his lackeys were lying on a grand scale by claiming it was less than a fraction of that number.
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT UNDER FIRE FOR ALLEGED MISUSE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
BIDEN’S P.R. FLACK JEN PSAKI CALLOUSLY MOCKS PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT HIGHER CRIME IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND JOKES THAT THEY LIVE IN AN “ALTERNATE REALITY“. More HERE. The 21st Century Democrats are as callous and uncaring as the most bloated rich pig Republicans of the past.
BRITISH NEWS OUTLET REPORTS DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI’S SON TIED TO A FRAUD AND BRIBERY SCHEME. Because Democrat outlets like CNN and NPR certainly won’t cover it.
NANCY PELOSI ADVISES U.S. ATHLETES NOT TO CRITICIZE THE OPPRESSIVE, GENOCIDAL CHINA REGIME. If any non-Democrat politician advised athletes not to speak out about a totalitarian regime the Democrats’ media outlets would be making it the Apocalypse of the Week. But China owns too many Democrats and their outlets.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS COVERING UP NANCY PELOSI’S INSIDER TRADING. No surprise. Continue reading
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IT’S A BIRD … IT’S A PLANE … IT’S SUPERMAN! (1975) – It’s the bomb that asks the musical question “How many Lembecks can you handle?” Even the most die-hard Superman fans would have a hard time forcing themselves to watch all of this made for tv movie version of the 1966 stage musical.
The needlessly awkward title is a viewer’s first hint that this cringe-inducing production will fail to live up to its potential. The second hint comes in the form of the distractingly cheap illustrated backdrops in every scene. Even Donny and Marie would have nixed those sets.
Despite music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and script by David Newman & Robert Benton this Superman musical was Broadway’s biggest flop in history as of the 1960s. It’s no great shakes in its televised form, either.
An early song, titled We Need Him, is actually pretty catchy and had me hoping for something halfway decent. Unfortunately most of the other songs are weak at best and annoying at worst. You’ve Got Possibilities and Ooh, Do You Love You are the only other standouts.
Some of the comedy bits are reminiscent of the intentional camp of the 1960s Batman tv series, except for very seldom being actually funny. Only a few of the jokes land, but the failings of the songs and comedy bits are not the fault of the cast members, who try very hard and who have proven themselves in many other productions. Continue reading
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE! His works got me hooked in my teens when I really related to his character Stephen Dedalus as he rejected his religion and indulged what I call his “young and pretentious side” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I wore out my copy of Joyce’s novel Ulysses and continue to mark Bloom’s Day to this very day.
Over the years Finnegans Wake replaced Ulysses as my favorite Joyce novel and I’m fonder than many people are of his play Exiles. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the stories of pulp heroine Jirel of Joiry, the Medieval French woman-warrior created by female author C.L. Moore in 1934. For the first story click HERE.
JIREL MEETS MAGIC (1935) – First off, let me say that is a bizarrely bland and unfitting title for this wildly imaginative tale. It also ignores the supernatural elements of Jirel’s first two adventures by implying this is the first time she “meets” magic.
The story opens up with Jirel on horseback leading her army in a bloody assault on Castle Guischard, the stronghold of the sorcerer Giraud. When our heroine leads the way into the castle itself, even her bravest men are a bit intimidated by the dark history of the place, but charge in along with her.
When the last of Giraud’s men are slain and all secret passageways from Castle Guischard are covered, Jirel and her men scour the entire castle for any sign of the sorcerer, whom she has sworn to kill over his double-dealing with her.
At last, in a high tower of the castle, Jirel finds what must have been Giraud’s hiding place and sees how he apparently fled.
Behind plush curtains is a window with impossibly large ivory shutters. Once opened, those shutters reveal that the window leads not to the outside, but to another dimension in which Giraud has sought shelter.
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