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Barbarella Acid Flashback Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi

“An angel has no memory,” remarks Pygar at the end of “Barbarella” (1968). Sweet Jehoshaphat, would that I could say the same!

Roger Vadim’s sci-fi sex fantasy manages to distill everything that was horrible about the ’60s into an excruciating 98-minutes: shag-carpeted spaceships, lava lamp special effects, Rolling Stones “It Girl” Anita Pallenberg, trippy music performed by the Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra, and a Bardot-bouffanted Jane Fonda in kinky fetish boots (if little else). I have to hand it to Fonda. She’s certainly game.

Join us, if you dare, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, for a con-heavy conversation worthy of Marcel Marceau. I’ll be struggling against an acid flashback, as we livestream on Facebook. Leave your comments on this cult “classic,” this Friday evening at 7:00 EST.

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February 18, 2021
Fury Barbarella Movie Review

It’s as if Roy and I were connected telepathically, as we blew our tops over “The Fury.” One hour and fifty-six minutes, jaw-boning about the Cassavetes Method (acting with his cigarette) and Kirk Douglas’ aversion to clothing.

I hope you’ll join us next time, when – Pygar help us – we tackle the cult classic “Barbarella” (1968), starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and, yes, Marcel Marceau.

I’ll be miming my displeasure on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, when we reconvene to livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at 7:00 EST.

February 13, 2021
The Fury 1978 A Telekinetic Thriller Review

If I had any extra sense, I could rely on ESP. As it stands, it’s probably safer to post: this week, on Roy’s Tie Dye Sci-Fi Corner, we’ll vent our fury, by discussing… well, “The Fury” (1978). Brian De Palma’s Hitchcock-infused telekinesis thriller was a stranger thing, well before “Stranger Things.”

Lantern-jawed Kirk Douglas gets up to all sorts of derring-do on his quest to rescue his kidnapped son, before he can be transformed into a killing machine by a nefarious ex-colleague. But Amy Irving, in a parallel story, has the final say, as blue-eyed Gillian, who can make you shudder. Composer John Williams out-Bernard Herrmanns Bernard Herrmann, with a score that, Pauline Kael opined, “may be as apt and delicately varied… as any horror movie has ever had.”

You’ll have more fun than a room full of John Cassavetes, when you join us for our discussion of “The Fury,” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Live-scream in the comments section, as we live-stream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!

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February 11, 2021
Rollerball 1975 Review Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner

In the not-so-distant future (?) – 2018, to be exact – corporations rule world. They see to it that all mankind’s needs are met. There is no crime, there is no war, there is no disease, there is no famine. For the populace, the ultimate distraction is Rollerball, a brutal contact sport engineered to remind everyone that no individual is greater than the system. Champion Jonathan E. thinks otherwise.

Norman Jewison’s bread-and-circus parable has all the subtlety of a studded glove in the face, and James Caan proves that Sonny can hold a job after all, if only he can make it through the next toll booth.

A special shout-out to André Previn for his music supervision. Previn conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in selections by Tchaikovsky, Albinoni, and Shostakovich. But it’s Simon Preston who makes the most lasting impression with Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor.”

The Super Bowl holds no fear, as Roy and I take on the Man, with “Rollerball” (1975), on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. We’ll be looking for your chants of “Jonathan” in the comments section, as we live-stream on Facebook, this Sunday evening at 7:00 EST.

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“GAME??? THIS WASN’T MEANT TO BE A GAME!!!”

The trailer:

To get you in the mood – the Puppy Bowl:

https://www.discovery.com/shows/puppy-bowl/puppy-bowl-xvii#:~:text=PUPPY%20BOWL%20airs%20on%20discovery%2B,February%207%20at%202p%20ET.

February 7, 2021
Batman 1966 Marathon Turns Painful A Review

Holy urban sprawl, Batman!

Or as Adam West observes, “Some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”

Last night’s painful discussion of “Batman” (1966) ran 2 ½ HOURS. It was a perfect storm of Roy having an emotionally draining week, my not having eaten dinner, our struggling to adapt to a three-person format, and computer woes causing us to start 40 MINUTES LATE. That’s right, we didn’t finish until NEARLY 10 PM. Somebody stop the madness, please!

I haven’t watched it yet, but how good could it be? Thanks to Vinny Foti for sticking it out on a night when clearly we weren’t at our best, and thank you to our long-suffering viewers.

BIF! BAM! POW! Zzzzz…

Joker, Penguin, and Riddler weren’t the only ones taking it on the chin.

You’ll be guaranteed a more concise beating – if for no other reason than we’d like to get back to our hoagies and buffalo wings – as we tackle the dystopian sports classic “Rollerball” (1975), on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, livestreamed on Facebook, this Super Sunday at 7PM EST.

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In the meantime, here’s a direct link to Bat-torture:

February 6, 2021

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