My first film in over a week and this is what I choose. Having just read the novella, I was curious to see how this compressed story looked over the course of a 3-hour mini-series. It's basically an aeronautical version of The Mist by way of The Twilight Zone, with Cousin Balki coming in hard as the direct-to-video Patrick Bateman. It's one of the most low-budget (looking) pieces in the King canon, effectively staged on two sets and aesthetically ten…

All Disney Features and Shorts in Release Order - a challenge?

Film #7

After spending far too long searching for the mostly lost Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, this Disney project rolls into one of the more sophisticated shorts up until this point.

Later retitled with synchronised sound as The K.O. Kid, this was the last of seven Fairy Tales Laugh-O-Grams directed by Walt Disney. The set-up is simple enough: the titular Jack, his…

Completely devoid of anything resembling a singular plot, the first five minutes is like a trailer for the film followed by a 15 minute car chase that blows any other action scene of late out of the water. The politics of the film are super weird, almost as strange as the camera angles and whiplash editing, and no opportunity for a butt in lingerie goes past Mr. Bay. Still, if you're not prone to seizures brought on from rapid flashes,…