Cinemension: May 2010

Another of my dad's favorite actors.

This was a sci fi film I saw years ago, as a kid, and have an old VHS tape of. The animation is not great, but the tale is very interesting.

My dad's favorite actor of all time:

Marlin Perkins was the landlubbin' American equivalent of Jacques Cousteau. Loved this show as a kid, and got a couple of cheap DVDs with show episodes yesterday. Loved how Marlin punked old Jim Fowler, giving him the dangerous assignments while Marlin cooled out in the studio.

This is the film that Werner Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World is the antithesis of:

I was doing some work earlier, and was flipping thru the channels when I came across this 2006 film. I watched the last 80% of it, and it was quite charming.

Not great cinema, and the ending was predictable- that somehow the main character would not die, but it was done with far more verve and affection, and far less pretension than the films written by Charlie 'One Note' Kaufman.