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LANDING SPOT SUNDAY MOVIE - TONIGHT'S FEATURE: HIGHWAY TO HELL (1992)

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HIGHWAY TO HELL is a 1992 American B horror comedy film directed by Ate de Jong and starring Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson and Patrick Bergin. It was written by Brian Helgeland. The film tells the story of Charlie Sykes (Lowe) and his girlfriend Rachel Clark (Swanson), who is kidnapped by a demon and taken to Hell to become one of Satan's brides, while Charlie must travel to the other dimension to rescue her. The film features cameo appearances by Lita Ford, Gilbert Gottfried, actor Ben Stiller, his sister Amy Stiller and their parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. LINK TO MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/327290194498

LANDING SPOT SATURDAY MOVIE: TONIGHT'S FEATURE: BEETLEJUICE (1988)

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BEETLEJUICE is a 1988 American comedy horror-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by the Geffen Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious poltergeist named Betelgeuse (pronounced and occasionally spelled Beetlejuice in the movie and portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder). LINK TO MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/32091343385

Robocop Reality

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I was waiting at one of my favorite sleazy food joints when I saw an unattended police car. Walking around it, I marveled at what it had on both the interior and exterior. From the outside, it looked more like a hostile deep-space probe than a vehicle designed with terrestrial public safety in mind. It bristled with antennae and bump-like fairings that you normally see on military aircraft. If it had wings, it’s a safe bet some sort of weaponry and/or surveillance device would be attached to them. Its orca-like paint job enhanced its already menacing appearance. From this... As a form of sick and ironic comic relief, there's the lights. Evidently, the same people who usually design things normally found on the Las Vegas Strip diverted their talents to law enforcement vehicles. Either way, it’s big fucking money. Unlike hitting a jackpot in Vegas, when all of the flashing multicolored lights and sirens literally scream out Win, Win, Win, when those lights and sounds ema

LANDING SPOT FRIDAY MOVIE - TONIGHT'S FEATURE: UNDER SIEGE (1992)

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UNDER SIEGE is a 1992 American action-thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and written by J. F. Lawton. It stars Steven Seagal as an ex-Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones, on the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri. LINK TO MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/24331029058

The Floyd case through color blind lenses: Guest post by TJ Darby

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These are indeed troubled times in which we live.  Regardless of which side of the political divide one finds themselves this is a statement upon which we may find a consensus.  Depending upon which side of that divide one may find themselves this conclusion is reached for differing reasons.  Under current circumstances it would be to the benefit of all concerned if we were to unite upon those reasons which we find in common.  There is no doubt that such commonality exists, yet still it seems to elude us. That leaves us with this question: why? The images of Mr. Floyd are disturbing. They are disturbing not because they show a white cop shoving the face of a black man into the pavement. They are disturbing because this image is emblematic of the state of affairs nationwide.  What I see is an American citizen being crushed beneath the boot of unrestrained and thuggish application of police powers.  The motto of “protect and serve” has long been replaced by “intimidate

LANDING SPOT WEDNESDAY MOVIE - TONIGHT'S FEATURE: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The plot concerns an aging former actress who holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell. Upon the film's release, it was met with widespread critical and box office acclaim and was later nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design, Black and White. In 1917, "Baby Jane" Hudson is a well-known vaudevillian child star while her older sister Blanche lives in her shadow. By 1935, their fortunes have reversed: Blanche is a successful film actress and Jane lives in obscurity, her films having failed. Jane, able to imitate Blanche's voice perfectly, mocks her one night at a party. That same night, Blanche is paralyzed from the waist down in a

LANDING SPOT SUNDAY MOVIE - TONIGHT'S FEATURE: JOE KIDD (1972)

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JOE KIDD is a 1972 American Technicolor Western film in Panavision starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. LINK TO MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/1445339073176

We Reserve the Right

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 Of all the signs one faces and occasionally reads whenever they enter a business, the ones that say things like "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone" and "No Loitering" are usually among them. They are also among the things that seem to be falling victim to that hideous disease known as political correctness. Call me old fashioned, but if someone is acting like an obnoxious asshole, they are usually asked to leave. If they walk into a place and occupy space without ordering anything, they are usually asked to leave. If they smell so fucking bad that vultures are circling overhead, they are usually asked to leave. Not any more. Unless you’re a straight white male, especially one wearing a MAGA hat or anything and everything even remotely resembling one, the world is now both your oyster and your toilet. As long as you’re not an ESWM (Evil Straight White Male, as if there are any other kind), laws and customs in place for hundreds, if not

LANDING SPOT SATURDAY MOVIE - TONIGHT'S FEATURE: THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)

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An encore presentation... THE SIXTH SENSE is a 1999 American supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), a child psychologist who tries to help him. The film established Shyamalan as a writer and director, and introduced the cinema public to his traits, most notably his affinity for surprise endings. LINK TO MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/331971561991

Beware of the Rainbow Scare and Other Random Musings

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It's been said that the USA is "the land of the free and the home of the brave" and a country where you have numerous freedoms that are conducive to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Very good, but why is it that I’m constantly surrounded by people who are trying to tell me what to say and what to do? It’s increasingly becoming the land of the cowed and home of the paranoid who seem to be content with death, despair, and the pursuit of medication. The 50's were a time of the Red Scare, and one had to be very careful what they said and did, or even the mere appearance of it lest they be tagged a communist. James Thurber wrote a good one on that topic: The Very Proper Gander Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander. He was strong and smooth and beautiful and he spent most of his time singing to his wife and children. One day somebody who saw him strutting up and down in his yard and singing remarked, "There is a ve