My second pick is one of the few decent Hollywood movies regarding the Civil War and one which depicts one of the most improbable incidents of the war. The Raid (1954) may be a small film in terms of scope, but […]
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Non-Stop New York (1937) ✰ ✰ ✰
(This was the first entry in my “Overlooked [or Obscure] Goodies” column back in 2003, which eventually became “Movies Worth Rediscovering.” The first paragraph establishes the format and criteria for my selections.) One of my goals when I began […]
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The following fourteen posts are those that appeared in Filmbobbery from 2003 to 2009. They are in chronological order from bottom to top, showing the progression of the Bizarre Movie Zone from the one-time article “The Joys of Really, Really, Really […]
Continue reading »BMZ: The Worst Films I Have Ever Seen (10:4)
If you have an insatiable fondness for the offbeat, the preposterous or the outlandish, then this is where you will find them… in the Bizarre Movie Zone. Since I began my movie rating list in 1979 I have seen a […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Underwater Habitats (10:2)
If you have an insatiable fondness for the offbeat, the preposterous or the outlandish, then this is where you will find them… in the Bizarre Movie Zone. Other than outer space, the most remote part of our immediate environment is […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Environmental Horror (10:1)
If you have an insatiable fondness for the offbeat, the preposterous or the outlandish, then this is where you will find them… in the Bizarre Movie Zone. M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening) is not the first filmmaker to explore the […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Shark Cinema (9:4)
If you have an insatiable fondness for the offbeat, the preposterous or the outlandish, then this is where you will find them… in the Bizarre Movie Zone. Back in Vol. 6, Issue 2, I wrote “A Survey of Shark Movies.” […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Merry Christmas! (9:2)
If you have an insatiable fondness for the offbeat, the preposterous or the outlandish, then this is where you will find them… in the Bizarre Movie Zone. No Christmas is complete without these classics that somehow never received their due […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Amusement Parks (9:1)
Welcome to the BMZ — a region where movie oddities of all sorts reside. Hollywood’s graveyard, where the vast majority of major movie stars have skeletons buried they would rather not recall or reveal. But remember this: one person’s embarrassing […]
Continue reading »BMZ: Michael Caine (8:4)
As there seems to be a demand for information and caustic commentary regarding movies which are so bad that they somehow attain a certain level of grandeur, I will employ this ongoing feature to present a selection of the odd, […]
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