Sunday, April 6, 2025

Sven- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

From Wiki- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made[4] American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was distributed in the United States by Allied Artists as a double feature with War of the Satellites.  The Allied Artists television version runs 75 minutes instead of 66, including a long printed crawl at the beginning and end, repeated sequences, and hold-frames designed to optically lengthen the film's running time. The film's storyline concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien in his round spacecraft causes her to grow into a giantess, complicating her marriage which is already troubled by a philandering husband.[5]  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a variation on other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); in this case, a woman is the protagonist.[6] The film's popularity and cult status[7] has spawned numerous parodies and homages in popular media. Back to me:

469. Martial Club of Death? Not!

              Here is one of my favorite Lau Kar-Leung movies, though not top two.  It has far less comedy than many of his other movies.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Instructors of Death! 1981

 

This is my third favorite Lau Kar-Leung movie.  It is funny and full of fighting, almost too much fighting at times.

468. 7 Song Friday with COMEDY!

            Here's a late April Fool's Day inspired 7 Song Friday.  No pranks, just laughs.  I've never been too fond of pranks overall.

Friday, April 4, 2025

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman - Original Theatrical Trailer

                   I have seen this movie once, I think.  It isn't terrible, really, but it is very short.  Very short.  Ironic, considering the title of the movie.

467. Green Hornet eps 09, 10, and 11! Bruce Lee rules!

            This set of episode reviews contains one of the best shows, since it highlights Kato, at least as much as 60s telly would allow.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

The Preying Mantis!

The producers finally figured out they should showcase Bruce Lee and his amazing charisma, not to mention his martial arts skills.  This is, sadly, the only episode about Kato, sorta, and had there been a second season, I think we would have seen more.

466. All About SOME Dinosaurs (1953)!

           Here we have the second review (I did one way back in episode 33, when I had even less of an idea of what I was doing.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

HOTW- The Vision (Marvel)

 

From Wiki- Founding member of the Avengers and scientist/adventurer Hank Pym (also known by the code names Ant-Man, Giant-Man, and Goliath) decides to experiment with creating artificial intelligence, using a combination of computer programming and recordings of human brainwave patterns. Hank's hope is to create a robot who does not just simulate emotions but can truly feel and achieve emotional growth. His work results in the creation of a robot called Ultron who immediately turns on him and escapes. Ultron then upgrades himself repeatedly, finally creating a formidable robotic form which can allow him to do battle. Hating his father and wishing to dominate Earth, Ultron makes attacks against the Avengers, both on his own and through the use of agents such as the Masters of Evil team. Ultron's first ally is Eric Williams, the Grim Reaper, a villain who hates the Avengers because he blames them for the death of his brother Simon Williams, the ionically empowered hero Wonder Man (Eric and the Avengers were unaware at the time that Wonder Man was alive and only in a coma-like state).[15] Inspired by how strongly Eric is motivated by his connection to his brother, Ultron decides he wants family too.[16] To create an android "son", Ultron first tracks down the body of the original android Human Torch, a Golden Age hero and android described by his creator Phineas T. Horton as a "synthetic man", being replica of an adult human male with synthetic organs, blood, tissue, muscle, and skeleton. Unknown to the living robot, the time villain called Immortus uses his powers to duplicate the original Torch moments before Ultron's arrival, creating twin copies. While Ultron takes one deactivated Human Torch back to his lab, the other deactivated Human Torch remains behind, waiting to be reactivated. Immortus did this as part of larger plans he had to manipulate the Avengers.[17]  Back to me:

465. Of Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and Astaroth!

               I saw this about age nine, and really enjoyed it.  I have watched it a few more times since then, but not until this time have I seen things to comment on.