Movie-A-Day #192: Soylent Green (1973).
Today is the United Nations’ annual World Population Day, which tried to bring attention to the problems associated with the growing number of people crowding this planet. Overpopulation was a key component of the first wave of the environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But it’s something that’s rarely mentioned by the current green evangelists – despite the fact that the world population has doubled since then. Today the focus is on climate change, greenhouse gases and sustainability. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are too damn many people being born, and there just aren’t enough resources to support them all. How do we deal with this? I don’t know, but the “Soylent Green” solution is looking less and less far-fetched every day.
Movie-A-Day #191: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965).
The incredibly awesome B-movie diva Tura Satana died earlier this year, but she would have been 73 today. But she still burns up the screen in movies like Russ Meyer’s “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”, where she’ll always be young and vibrant and kickass-ingly sexy.
Movie-A-Day #190: A League of Their Own (1992).
Tom Hanks turns 55 years old today. He’s got a new movie out now, but it looks pretty crappy. “A League of Their Own” is a much better film, plus its the middle of baseball season and the All-Star break is upon us. Watch this one instead – and avoid the clap.
Something strange happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 that people are still trying to figure out. On July 8 of that year, the public information officer of the local air base announced that the Air Force had recovered a mysterious “flying disk” from a local ranch. By the next day the big brass in Washington was dismissing it as a weather balloon, but by then the speculation was off and running. And it’s done nothing but build steam since then, making UFOlogy a cottage industry and giving rise to dozens of cheap but fun alien invasion movies. In turn, those early sci-fi cheapies inspired a young Steven Spielberg, who would eventually legitimize the alien invasion film with “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” So what do you think the Air Force found back then?
Movie-A-Day #188: She-Devils on Wheels (1968).
Did you know that July is Women’s Motorcycle Month? That’s right, having a loud, screaming machine between your legs isn’t just for men. If you save up for a good hog, ladies, you too can be one of the “She-Devils on Wheels.”
Desuko Movie Spot. 