Special Children Movie Night

All children are taught they're special but of course only the ones caught in a supernatural battle between good and evil and the robot ones are.  Oh, and those kids that wore cowboys boots in first grade. They were cool, right? Even though the teachers complained to their parents about the noise they made in the hallway? Anyway...

Barret Oliver is the titular star of D.A.R.Y.L. who we haven't seen in 4 and a half years when we watched Invitation to Hell.



He wasn't in that clip but how could I not show that clip? He narrowly missed being part of Horror Anthology Television Night for his Twilight Zone episode "Gramma".



But the stars don't end there! The Visitor stars directing legends John Huston and Sam Peckinpah (Convoy) and well-regarded actors Shelley Winters and Lance Henriksen.



I don't know how the guy who wrote Beyond the Door and Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (with Lance Henriksen!) attracted that kind of talent... until I just looked it up right now. Turns out he was the CEO of Cannon Films!

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Bad Superhero Movie Night

We missed last week because Marissa was in the hospital for... I want to say perjury? I didn't get the whole story. But for your information (or as the kids shorten it, 4 ur info) Tommy Lee Jones was going to be in the other "Oscar nominee's previous movie/Blaxploitation" movie night. I was leaning towards Jackson County Jail.



Which would have been paired with Jamaa Fanaka's Penitentiary II. That will have to wait for some other BMN. It's a rare prison theme that doesn't feature excessive female nudity or a lecherous lesbian prison warden. It'll still be good though.



The director of The Return of Captain Invincible, Philippe Mora, is no stranger to BMN. He made both Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf and Howling III: The Marsupials. He made a movie I watched yesterday by chance, The Beast Within, the year before Captain Invincible. Not of interest to you but you like Modern Family so you're no great measure.

The bad guy in Captain Invincible is Christopher Lee. We last saw him a month ago and he's finally made it into the five timers club:


The Wicker Man
Starship Invasions
Captain America II: Death Too Soon 
Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf
The Return of Captain Invincible

Which is like someone going a long time without recognition that you'd expect to get recognition much earlier. I'm not good with similes.

The Human Tornado is from the director of  Petey Wheatstraw, the producer of Disco Godfather and the production Manager of Penitentiary II. All the same person, Cliff Roquemore. It's the only other 70s Dolemite movie and it features Penitentiary II's Ernie Hudson. That's right, we almost had back-to-back Ernie Hudson movies. Maybe next week we can watch him as prison warden Leo Glynn on Oz.



Here's what happened two weeks ago:

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They Came Back Wrong

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Love Movie Night

Love is in the air. Beautiful, delicate, unstoppable, wafting, pure, white love. Nope, I'm thinking of snow.

I don't remember finding it in poor taste that SpaceCamp came out just a few months after the Challenger disaster in 1986 but then again I found that Need Another Seven Astronauts joke pretty funny too. Children are terrible, terrible people.



Compare and contrast that to the Chernobyl Diaries from last year, which some people were uncomfortable with even though the Chernobyl disaster was also back in 1986. Of course SpaceCamp wasn't based on Challenger, it was just poorly timed. Yet misfortune continued to follow the cast throughout 1986:

Lea Thompson - Starred in Howard the Duck right after George Lucas's talent was murdered by Fuzzball from Captain EO.

Kelly Preston - Married Kevin Gage and not the love of her life, John Travolta.


Tom Skerritt  - Was in Top Gun.

Terry O'Quinn made out pretty good though. He got the title role in The Stepfather which later led to Pin. Those two movies were part of Terry O'Quinn Father Roles Movie Night, which we watched right after Levi was born. This is his first appearance since that night so maybe Terry O'Quinn is a baby harbinger.

The director of Black Samurai was murdered by his contractor in 1995 and buried in his newly remodeled bathroom. So his 1986 was pretty good too.

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies