Originally published online in 2009. The annals of very bad movies include a number famed for being so-bad-they’re-good, along with a number that are so-bad-they’re-painful-to-sit-through. And then there are those so very awful that they function as alien artifacts, glimpses into some alternate dimension where things that resemble people wander through a landscape that completely […]
Last night, watched SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (1959), starring Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, which Gore Vidal expanded off the one-act play by Tennessee Williams. First time for me, recorded off TCM. Oh, boy. With dialogue and performances occupying the precise intersection between poetry and overbearing pretension, the story’s about a wealthy southern matriarch […]
One of the odder manifestations of life with four cats involves their vomiting. Yes, this is disgusting. I am talking about vomit, of course it’s disgusting. If you cannot take it, read no further. Almost all the vomiting that takes place in this house involves Gilbert and Uma. It is a function of Gilbert’s long […]
