Afternoons in Rapture: KTVA Matinees 1976-79 (79)
The Alaska CBS affiliate, KTVA Channel 11, ran an afternoon movie matinée show from 3:00 to 5:00pm, and which I discovered at the perfect time in my life: starting when I was about 12. I saw the original King Kong here initially, and it forced me to
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Bailed the Author Out of an Incident at the Bank (1)
It was in Anchorage, and the author was Lynne Reid Banks. The book she was pushing was her then current one about a hamster. Her financial rescue is not much of a story, but maybe someday I will write about it. A holdover from my long, long years with an
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Cable Obsessions in the Early '80s (45)
Cable was still new to me, and so were R-rated films. Some films, owing to less or more limited material being available to the cable markets at the time, were played about two dozen times in a month. Watched Mad Max and Alien about 75 times each in this
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Do Yourself A Favor and Read the Book Instead (5)
Seriously, if you want to know this story, either see a better version or just read a damn book for once. It'll do you some good. Unless it's a crappy book, of course...
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Do Yourself A Favor & Read the Book, Too... (8)
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Films I have reviewed on Spout Mavens (1)
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Films I Own On DVD (984)
Very incomplete... I actually have over a thousand, but I need to take some time to catch this one up. Relax... by then, it will be 1500...
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Films I want to buy (1555)
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Films I want to see (2713)
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Films I've seen (6547)
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Fire Your Canon! (Your list, not your camera!) (328)
My favorite films... nothing more, nothing less. Always room for additions... make an awesome film and join the party!
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Forged in Childhood: The Deepest Influences (564)
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Friday Night Dead: CBS Late Night in My Teens (27)
In my youth, CBS would run episodes of Kolchak the Night Stalker on Friday nights in the slot where Letterman now resides, and would run other shows on other nights as well. This is where I first saw The New Avengers, The Saint (with Roger Moore) and The
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Have A Friend or Acquaintance in the Film (10)
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Have A Friend or Acquaintance's Home in the Film (1)
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In the Ol' VHS Library (1295)
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KIMO Late Night: The World's Most Terrible Movies (34)
A show actually called "The World's Most Terrible Movies"... mostly Hammer and Harryhausen, and the first place I ever saw Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but also where I met Michael Gough and his Horrors of the Black Museum. Saturday nights
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Lucky 13 Movie on KIMO: The Oddest Mix (63)
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Mitchell Manor Afternoons in the '80s (37)
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Monstrously Painful Disappointments at the Movies (165)
Not just bad movies, but ones that I felt at some point before seeing them that I was going to have a great time doing so. Must be films seen initially in theatres, not on DVD or VHS. Must be films that still cause me to involuntarily seek out rusty razor
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Needs to be on DVD... RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW!!! (56)
There's absolutely no excuse to be made... I need these films in my collection immediately! (Luckily, I still have most of them on VHS...)
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Oscar in the Wrong Hands or For the Wrong Film... (5)
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Saw it on Elvira's show... (3)
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Schoolrooms & Cafeterias: It's No Way to Watch (18)
Films recalled from school or trips to gyms after-hours for "community" activities; you know, church with a different kind of preachiness, but a similar type of crowd control. Fresh popcorn, though...
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The Shark Film Office (1)
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The Uncritical '80s: Tapes I Watched A Lot Then (89)
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Would You Believe I Saw This In A Theatre...? (585)
Mainly a refuge for films that I was either too dumb to avoid in theatres, or that I was cajoled into by significant others, or girls that I wanted to make my significant others. But, as my buddy Aaron noticed by some "Loved It" and "Liked
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