3 things about THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER

Posted on June 24, 2025 by robchristopher

The Rescuers Down Under [1990]

1. Inadequate runway.
2. Transport by snake.
3. Eggsitting.

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3 things about Robert Aldrich’s WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

Posted on June 23, 2025 by robchristopher

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [1962]

1. A perfectly ordinary lambchop.
2. “You mean all this time we could have been friends?”
3. Seeing her reflection in the mirror, she breaks down sobbing. Then Blanche starts buzzing again and again.

3 other things.

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3 things about Lisa Rovner’s SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

Posted on June 23, 2025 by robchristopher

Sisters with Transistors [2020]

1. Suzanne Ciani was the first female composer to score a Hollywood film (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, 1981).
2. To play the theremin you must be a butterfly.
3. Hand-spliced tape loops.

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3 things about Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY

Posted on June 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story [2024]

1. Half an inch either way, things would have turned out differently.
2. William Hurt urging him not to sell out and reject the part.
3. Teaching his son to ride a bicycle.

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3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s THE UNDERNEATH

Posted on June 21, 2025 by robchristopher

The Underneath [1995]

1. “I feel like I’m in an ad for fine wine.”
2. Napkin message.
3. Askew hospital room windows.

3 other things.

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3 things about Stephen Kijak’s ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED

Posted on June 20, 2025 by robchristopher

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed [2023]

1. Linda Evans reveals that for a time, people refused invitations to have dinner at her house.
2. Well endowed.
3. Elizabeth Taylor: “I became so incensed and personally frustrated at the rejection I was receiving by just trying to get people’s attention. I was made so aware of the silence, this huge, loud silence regarding AIDS, how no one wanted to talk about it and no one wanted to become involved. Certainly no one wanted to give money or support, and it so angered me that I finally thought to myself … ‘Bitch, do something yourself. Instead of sitting there getting angry. Do something.'”

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3 things about Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon’s FREE FOR ALL: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Posted on June 19, 2025 by robchristopher

Free for All: The Public Library [2025]

1. Andrew Carnegie would agree to build a library only after the community demonstrated that it was committed to taxing itself.
2. Books by mule.
3. Arrested for refusing to hand over patrons’ book circulation records.

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3 things about Hugo Fregonese’s BLACK TUESDAY

Posted on June 18, 2025 by robchristopher

Black Tuesday [1954]

1. He lies about the result of the coin toss.
2. Raiding the storage units for medical supplies.
3. He laments the fact that he can take things apart but never seem to put them back together again.

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3 things about David Lowell Rich’s SST: DEATH FLIGHT

Posted on June 14, 2025 by robchristopher

SST: Death Flight [1977]

1. Hydraulic fluid or blood?
2. Billy Crystal as a gay flight attendant.
3. Senegal instead of London.

This is a true buried treasure of 1970s trash: it’s “awful” but also really fun.

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3 things about John Guillermin’s SKYJACKED

Posted on June 13, 2025 by robchristopher

Skyjacked [1972]

1. Repeated ominous zooms involving lipstick.
2. Pipesmoking before takeoff and after landing.
3. Rosie Grier as a jazz cellist (!)

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