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Mockingbird Lane - The Munsters in 2012

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         "Mockingbird Lane" premiered on NBC in 2012 on October 26. It was developed by Bryan Fuller, who had previously done the darkly comic tv series "Pushing Daisies". A couple of months ago I showed how the original pilot for the original 1960s series had characters that looked different. However, in all the different incarnations Herman Munster has had on television, whether played by Fred Gwynne, John Schuck, Edward Herrmann or Sam McMurray, (even Jeff Daniel Phillips in the Rob Zombie movie) the character has the same look based on Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. In Fuller's version Jerry O'Connell plays Herman and he looks like...well, Jerry O'Connell with a gnarly scar on his neck. Eddie Izzard's version seems to be based on Gary Oldman's Dracula as opposed to Bela Lugosi. The pilot offers a modern, darker twist on the old series. It was ambitious and if the series had been picked up might have sparked to life to the Munsters. MOCKING...
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Science Fiction Double Feature odes to B-movies of yore

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          Here is a collection of songs based on B-movies, it doubles as recommendations of movies to watch this month. The first song is the opening song from Rocky Horror Picture Show  mentions many B-movies, some of the songs I compiled are based on ones mentioned in that song. Blondie's song "The Attack of the Giant Ants" includes dialog and sound effects. The final two songs are the title songs sci-fi B-movies. Listen to my choices here:  Science Fiction Double Feature odes to B-movies - YouTube
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1950s double feature from an alternate earth

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       I've posted what 1930s and a 1940s movie bill would look like in a theatre from an alternate Earth so for Halloween season I present a spooky sci-fi presentations for the 1950s. I start with a trailer for Destination Mars! ,  directed by Robert Lowry, who also made the spoof serial Monarch of the Moon . Sand Pirates of the Sahara  was seen in the 2001 Jim Carrey movie The Majestic . The main double bill would be The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Alien Trespass . YouTube has the complete movie of Alien Trespass  but only the trailer for TLSoC , however it is worth seeking out (as well as Destination Mars! ) for those who enjoy pastiches of cheesy B-movies. See it all here (plus a bonus surprise):  1950s double feature from an alternate dimension - YouTube
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Reelin' in the Years - song titles of the 20th century

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       I did music for time of day, days of the week and months of the year, so it probably comes as no surprise that this week's music is years. I narrowed it down to the twentieth century. Some songs came to me right away; others took some time to decide. I couldn't choose between David Bowie's song of "1984" based on Orwell's book or Van Halen's opening number from the album of the same name, so I skipped it and went for different years instead.  You can hear my choices here:  Reelin' in the Years - YouTube
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Gods Behaving Badly starring Christopher Walken

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       You might be looking at the cast of this movie thinking "why don't I remember this?". The reason is because it was only shown at the Rome Film Festival in 2013 and never released in the theatres, on video or shown on television. The film was based on the popular satirical novel Gods Behaving Badly  by Marie Phillips, about the gods of Mount Olympus living in a flat in London. Since the movie was an American production, the Gods were transplanted to NYC. The critics ravaged the film. What if it was released? Would you be curious to see it?
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Songs of the Month

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       There are books of the month clubs, flowers of the month, etc. so why not songs of the month? Besides, I did hours and days of the week, so this seemed the natural continuation. You can go through all the months in one day here:  Songs of the Month - YouTube
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Danger Girl movie with Charlize Theron

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       Danger Girl was a comic created by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell for Image Comics. It debuted in 1996 and the intention was to make a comic that felt like an action movie. Instead of the comic credits being on the first page, they appear after a prelude to the story as a two-page spread designed to look like the opening credits of a James Bond movie. One of the characters is even drawn as Sean Connery. When the Avengers cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, it was because that was how the character was drawn in the Marvel comic "The Ultimates". The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen  was a movie based on a comic that made Connery quit acting. What if he did a different comic book movie? Would he continue acting? Who knows?      Although the head on the cover is Charlize Theron the body is of a cosplayer named Becky that was photographed by Michael Rodriguez at San Diego Comic Con.
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