Dreams with Sharp Teeth

Harlan Ellison is odd fellow.  At age 72 when Dreams With Sharp Teeth was put together, he seems just this side of madness as he rants and raves about the world around him.  But then, he has always ranted and raved about the world around him. I have never been a huge fan of Harlan Ellison’s writing.  I can’t name even a single story of his that I can remember reading, though I must surely have stumbled across one or two over the years.  No, it’s more stories about Harlan Ellison than story by Harlan Ellison that spring to mind.…

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I Am Number Four

Shown in Theater Number 4, cute, huh?  The story of a group of aliens being hunted by another group of aliens all of whom have supernatural powers and are hiding in plain sight here on Earth-while blowing up everything they run across and showing up on YouTube.  It’s a pretty standard issue story and a movie only made possible by super cheap CGI. Like all setup movies, I Am Number Four is crammed full of dull and boring backstory about our super hunk alien and the nasty fish people who want to kill him.  Only it’s backstory that doesn’t really…

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Monsters-A Classic Non-Action Movie

Ultra low budget film about an alternate Earth where NASA accidentally brings a race of giant octopus to Mexico.  The film opens with a couple of Humvees rolling into battle with a land walking octopus which appears to be several stories tall.   The soldiers spend a lot of time fire machine guns at the monster, which only serve to annoy the tentacle waving beastie.  They then call in Air Support and as the bombs drop we lose the picture and shift scene to. . . A bored photographer and a spoiled little rich girl with an injured arm.  For the…

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