Dairy. A Magical and futuristic beverage involving offices, factories, modern manufacturing and architecture, not to mention state of the art transit and sanitation systems. Did we leave anything out? Oh yeah, it seems like I recall agriculture being involved. But not according to this...
Aliens have decided to invade the planet and as usual a white male scientist is the first person they contact. The scientist, played by Hugh Marlowe (Harshest Face in Hollywood 1953-1955) pleads for the US government to contact the aliens back but to no avail. So the brave scientist...
Pop quiz: You are a teenager, emerging into adulthood and on the brink of having to make some very big changes in your life. And now it's up to you to make some big decisions that will affect you and your friends. Do you:
A. Reflect on the potential outcomes of your...
Atomic Treatment Presents: Episode 3: Lightning Chamber
Gene Autry was known as the "Singing Cowboy". I never understood that as I always thought of him as the "Pansy Cowboy". Not only did Jack Palance crap bigger than Autry, Martin Short in "The Three...
Just when you thought the Hercules franchise had run out of steam... you find out that it has with this Italian import stinker, “Hercules in the Center of the Earth”. This 1961 import was also released in The United States as “Hercules in the...
Hey do you like choral music? I mean REALLY like it? Do you enjoy watching the choral society sing on your local cable access channel but find yourself wanting more behind the scenes access? Well look no further friends. Someone in 1980, possibly while coming down off a ...
Odd little mid-war film warning about waning concern for our boys overseas. Inexplicably follows three stories, a cherubic New Englander more concerned about his morning coffee than the hard-fighting boys overeas, Quince an incompetent bomber crew member and an Army Chaplain who mysteriously...
Jimmy wants a dog more than anything and likes to visit Mr Black's house to see his pet dog Tippy every day after school. Mr. Black's motives seeme pretty suspect but hey this is the fifties and no reason to think this bachelor means anything but friendship to a lonely dim-witted preteen who...
In 1958 curious young minds wondered; how do we know the things we know? Does the human brain look like the Batcave? Where does the innate human fear of clowns originate? And most importantly, how can we get out of classwork in third period Social Studies? ...
From the makers of "A Case of Spring Fever" and "Hired!" parts one and two, comes "Holiday For Bill", a thirty minute commercial for Ford tractors featuring about twenty seconds worth of tractor footage. Meant to appeal to the ego of hillbillies, it shows how...
Another in the long line of Coronet films teaching young baby boomers about how to be responsible. No, you won't see the adventure of "What to do on a Date" or the dramatic performances of "Shy Guy" but what you will get sir is a decent helping of dry as sawdust talk...
Odd little mid-war film warning about waning concern for our boys overseas. An interesting juxtoposition to the "Go to Disneyworld" philosophy from G Bush about the current war and Americans attitudes. At the end we see our "hero" shot down in war thus making him a...
In the 1930's Scifi was in it's first awkward steps but one set of serialized films combined exciting stories, dramatic acting and, for it's time, impressive special effects. That was of course, Flash Gordon. Unfortunately, we have here a lame ripoff of Flash Gordon, The Lost City....
In Bright Young Newcomer we meet G. Bennet Barnes, a manager guy of some sort who is just trying to do his darndest to run his office but oh boy - here we go with these darn girls in the office! Fer crying out loud can't a man just get some work done without these lousy girls...
The depressing story of a boy who's angry (as already alluded to) and it is up to a team of child psychiatrists to find out what's bothering him. Yes, Tommy is so messed up that he needs a team of skilled therapists working on him. The film ends on a hopeful note but it's clear to...
Baby Boomers have grown through a series of changes: detatched hippies in their twenties, jaded young parents in their thirties, greed-driven investors in their forties and granola eating, yoga practicing new-agers in their fifties. Watch this film and see how their generation began, as...
This film sheds light on a little known phenomenon that worried Americans of the past: Election errors. It seems that for a time election errors led to miscounts, recounts and such that caused problems with the election process. Fortunately, voting machines came along to solve...
In the rich tradition of Night at the Museum, Mannequin.. uh, Mannequin 2... comes the "educational" film, "To Enrich Mankind" in which a statue of Archimedes comes to life and teaches a valuable lesson about mechanical engineering to Gus the Curator, a man so cranky he makes...
