Wrapping up our series on biological disaster flicks, we officially plow into the side of a mountain with a movie so bad, it’s good.
Full disclosure: this film was “Made for TV” (ABC-TV as it happens). And while a certain demographic may shrug at the news (after all, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad were “Made for TV”!), those of us old enough to have survived
The Andromeda Strain (1971; Dir. Robert Wise)Quick Synopsis—A U.S. satellite crashes the desert outside a small town in New Mexico. When a recovery team sent to retrieve the device abruptly stops transmitting, concerned government officials activate “Wildfire,”
In 1944, in an attempt to bolster a British morale deflated by hardship both home and abroad, Sir Lawrence Olivier co-adapted, directed and starred in Shakespeare’s Henry V, a bit of altruism (narcissism?) that not only went over big with critics and the general public, but also garnered him a special Academy Award. Mission accomplished!
You ever found yourself surveying the accumulation of detritus that is your abode, thinking: Christ, what a shit-show? And pledging to yourself that, come the weekend, all that bric-a-brac, all those bits and bobs, all that knick-knackery, will be donated to the Salvation Army so…help…you…God!