It opens as any good film should: with a secret society of hooded criminals — the Crooked Circle — swearing allegiance to one another, to crime, to the occult, to pretty much anything evil they can think of.
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These days, Bullitt‘s reputation is built almost entirely on the exhilarating eleven-minute car chase. Even people who have never seen the movie have seen or heard about that scene.
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A day spent puttering around the coast and canals of Key Largo on board the actual boat from one of my favorite films, John Huston’s The African Queen.
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On Alcohol Professor, I’m writing about La Mariana Sailing Club, Honolulu’s last remaining old school tiki bar, where a guy named Uncle Wayne has been slinging Mai Tais for decades.
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Like pretty much every punk rocker in history, my first exposure to Angry Red Planet was the Misfits album Walk Among Us, which depicted the band being menaced by a giant…rat-bat-spider…thing.
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The surreal swirl of stark futurism, psychedelia, and neon indulgence is…pleasantly overwhelming? Comfortably disturbing? Certainly it’s something that demands one’s attention even as it lulls you into a fugue state.
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At the very least, you should see at least one beach party movie just to behold the phenomenon that is Candy Johnson’s go-go dancing. I decided to watch them all. In one sitting.
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