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The Creeps (1997)
Phil Fondacaro makes this worth seeing
This would have been a typical don't waste your time b grade move if not for Phil Fondacaro. He plays his part like he really is Dracula, stuck in a four foot tall body. Even his eye make-up are top notch.The movie was worth watching for his performance. Made an otherwise poorly made movie really entertaining.
Revelation: The End of Days (2014)
Felt like a humanistic attempt at re-telling Revelation to fit secular ideals.
I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to do a story on Revelation without ever reading the Bible but that's what we've got here. Someone picked up a Bible and ripped a few verses screaming and bleeding out of context and tried to weave a humanistic interpretation of how Revelations should be told. The "anti-Christ" supposedly kills himself or is shot by his own forces and "Jesus" supposedly returns in some unseen way and doesn't even show Himself, let alone stay and set up His millennial kingdom. In the end we're left to believe that "man" starts to make things better, slowly, for himself. It's the same pure humanistic, anti-God drivel that I've come to expect from these channels. Four wasted hours of my life that I'll never get back... what a joke, and truly sad for a World that deserves to know the truth of Jesus' return at the end of days!
Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies (2013)
Very Disappointed
Although I enjoyed seeing most of this I was astounded that there was not even a mention in passing of one of the first and best known of all the women of television comedy, namely Imogene Coca. She was the trail blazer that made it possible for women like Mary Tyler Moore and Lucy to be taken seriously.
The producers found time to devote a whole segment to one of the foulest women of the day, Moms Mabley, but not one word of Imogene. Anyone who was alive at the time wouldn't even consider putting Moms Mabley on and leaving Imogene off.
Every now and then PBS rears its ugly PC head and this is certainly one of the most blatant. The rest of the series was good but this episode was very disappointing.
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
This is a "must see" for any fan of Sir John Gielgud!
As much as I looked forward to and really wanted to like Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Sir Simon de Canterville, it just fell flat when compared to this version of the ghost played by Sir John Gielgud. As another reviewer wrote "he is Delightful!" He knows how to embody an English aristocrat with the proper snobbery and yet he still brings a light sensitive humor to the role that is just perfect.
Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci and Alyssa Milano are well cast as a family that is struggling to come to terms with all the changes that have been thrown at them and although Ted can be a little over the top at times in other movies in this one he maintains just the right balance of humor without stepping over the line and ruining the tone of the move.
This is a "must see" for any fan of Sir John Gielgud!