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Multiple Maniacs
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
10/10
It just doesn't fade
7 November 2008
John Waters is quoted in Hoberman & Rosenbaum's "Midnight Movies" (1981) as saying, with "Multiple Maniacs" he had finally flushed all the remaining religion out of his system, and that his intent was to "scare the world." In 1970, he likely did so with this. One shudders to ponder what he'd have to come up with Today, to achieve the same goal.

However, when one considers the parade of human failure and misery that willingly allows itself to be showcased in a weekly strip's worth of Jerry Springer episodes, Waters' Dreamlanders, not only in "Maniacs," but in "Flamingos," "Female Trouble," and "Desperate Living" too, come off as a misfit bunch of lovable zanies.
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Surprise!
Queer as Folk: Surprise! (2001)
Season 1, Episode 11
His birthday is WHEN?
10 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Wait a minute...

It's fall in Queer As Folk world in 110 and 111. At the start of 110, Mel and Lindsay are raking leaves in their front yard, and in 111 when Brian and David are in the latter's driveway, you can see brown leaves on it and on a nearby tree. It's also Michael's birthday. Further, we know we're moving from summer to winter, because back in 107 there was still enough warmth for David and Michael to be getting it on outdoors, but by 115 when David's son Hank visits, it's cold enough for the three of them to go ice skating.

Yet watch season two, the Devina Devore episode (213), and the soldier that Debbie claims was Michael's father died two weeks after Michael was born, and the death date is in April (10?). I still remember having a cow about that when I figured out Michael was born in the last week of March, and was an Aries. Aries runs from March 21 to April 20, and no Aries, including Michael, is having a birthday when the leaves are turning brown and falling off the trees.
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Wicked Stepmother
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Painfully awful
1 September 2003
In self-defense for this fiasco, writer-director Larry Cohen pointed out that, while every one else in the last years of her life were handing Bette Davis yet another meaningless award, he offered her the thing she sought most: work. Fair enough. But as it proved when this was new, I believe time will increasingly show this employment opportunity for Bette Davis was the equivalent of offering a starving man a meal of coffee grounds and egg shells.

David died of cancer in October 1989, and the illness was plainly visible on her in her few scenes here. It is mournfully painful to watch her skeletal appearance in `Wicked Stepmother' if you loved her.

Avoid this aggressively. If you liked Davis's 'old-lady' period and want to watch a dignified 'good-bye' movie, seek the warm and bittersweet Lindsay Anderson drama, "The Whales of August" (1987) in which she co-starred with Lillian Gish. It is not only a classy farewell to those two legends, but now Ann Sothern and Vincent Price as well.
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Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes
Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001 TV Movie)
Fun to have these pros together
24 June 2002
Warning: Spoilers
Sure, the subject matter is grisly. You can still enjoy the movie for an entirely different reason. The movie (originally in the US), played on CBS, and united it's 70s sitcom queens for the first time. Virtually every year throughout the 70s, Moore and Stapleton were against each other (often one beating the other) for the Best Lead Actress in a comedy series Emmy award. So there's some campy wicked fun in the idea of Moore doing away with Stapleton once and for all!
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