For the election season, we present the 1973 movie Werewolf of Washington starring Dean Stockwell.
Category Archives: Amusement
The House on Haunted Hill
This 1959 William Castle classic introduced his “Emergo” gimmick in which he placed pulleys in some theaters to cause plastic skeletons to flow over the audience in certain scenes. John Goodman played a William Castle type producer in the 1993 film Matinee. This film stars Vincent Price.
Part two of our double feature is Vincent Price in the 1946 thriller Shock.
Halloween video.
Jimmy Kimmel 2nd presidential debate coverage.
The people have spoken. Even if the candidates have not.
Jay Leno weighs in on vice-presidential debate
Real street art
Mexican ‘theme park’ gives illegal border-crossing experience without the danger
A “coyote” in a ski mask barks orders: “We have to cross! We’ll go in groups of three. Let’s go!”
A small group runs down a desert road. Sirens begin to blare, so they veer off the road and down a rocky hill.
There’s a shout of “This is immigration!” and agents tackle a man to the ground. The others hide in the shadows.
“They found him,” a boy says sadly. “Immigration.”
Alberto, Mexico, sits about 700 miles from the U.S. border. Illegal immigration turned it into what one resident called a “ghost town,” but now, ironically, a simulation of the clandestine border-crossing experience is revitalizing it.
Read more at New York Daily News
Brown Amusements and Art Walk in Williams this weekend.
WILLIAMS—Events this weekend include Brown Amusements carnival next the the Williams Visitors Center and an Art Walk through the City.
ELECTION UNCONFIDENTIAL
True election stories from the south-west.
A friend of mine went in to vote in the August primary. Showing her drivers license (since she is a naturalized American, she has to show one.) the campaign volunteer noticed the expiration date of December 2012. Curiously (since this is August), the campaign worker asked if her license was expired.
My friend, not one to mince words, replied, “If it was December, that damn Obama wouldn’t be in office!”
The polling station became quiet.
Anti-Obama film raking in the bucks.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that 2016: Obama’s America took in 1.2 million over the weekend and its theater coverage is expanding from 61 to 169 theaters. It is the number 2 non-nature documentary so far this year.
The documentary is based on conservative author Dinesh D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage. The movie, co-directed by D’Souza and John Sullivan, will be playing in 1,075 theaters in an aggressive expansion that comes on the eve of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., which gets underway Aug. 27.
The film was number 3 in the Union Square theater in New York. One film executive joked that they must have thought it was a pro-Obama film. There are no reports of how many people walked out.