A dueling Pianist and Mystery Letters

• Upcoming show: Letter from an Unknown Woman
  
• Genre/Keywords: Drama, Romance
  
• Google Description: A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
• Trivia: In 1992, Letter from an Unknown Woman was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
• Time: 4 pm EST Wednesday May 27th
  
• Website link: Kast Room link
  

Exciting news before I get into the review! Kast, the company that bought out my previous favorite hosting site, has officially upped their game and I will be sticking with it for the foreseeable future. This is just easier on everyone now. It's a single link that you can bookmark and will work for all movies, the platform is user friendly, and officially lets me stream specific applications. It's a miracle! Also, I initially wrote this up to show Friday, but I'm so damn excited to test it, I said 'fuck it, today's the day.'

Dead of Night was everything I expected it to be. I love unsettling physiological thriller type deals, the kind you're not sure what happened at the ending. It was like mini Twilight Zone episodes within a Twilight Zone movie.

For this, I'm venturing outside of my normal genres with a Drama/Romance type deal. I don't have much experience with romance in particular, as the genre has never called out to me in any entertainment format, but this one is so highly praised, I have high hopes.

Ventriloquist dolls and Ghost stories

• Upcoming show: Dead of Night
  
• Genre/Keywords: Horror, Drama
  
• Description: Architect Walter Craig senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.
• Trivia: The first tale is "The Hearse Driver", which is based on "The Bus Conductor" by E.F. Benso. A variation of this story was featured on The Twilight Zone.
• Time: Tuesday, May 12th at 2 pm EST.
  
• Website link: twoseven (dead link)

Abbott and Costello was a riot along with many other things. There are so many elements to that movie; something still tricky to pull off without confusion to the plot, but they succeeded. After that viewing, I'm not sure if I should start with the House of Dracula movies or Abbott and Costello movies. Either way, I'm excited to dive into both in the future. For the next film, I really don't know much about it aside from the fact that in one article, this movie is said to set up the psychological thriller style of Alfred Hitchcock. As a giant Hitchcock fan, that's enough to get my full attention. Hope you can make it!

It's alive!!!

• Upcoming show: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
  
• Genre/Keywords: Spoof, comedy
  
• Description: Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.
• Trivia: Quentin Tarantino has cited this film as a big influence on him on how to blend different genres.
• Time: May 9th at 12 pm
  
• Website link: twoseven (dead link)

It's been a while, hasn't it? (Like how I tied my absence in with Frankie in the title?) I doubt anyone noticed, but I sorely missed showing these movies while I was drowning in school work. Now that it's summer break, I'm thrilled to be picking these back up. The next movie is the only kind of Frankenstein movie I ever hold any hope for; one that knows its making an abomination out of the original material. I feel as if these movies almost hold a closer message to Mary Shelley's work; usually having the scientists or townspeople as the goofs while the Monster merely stumbles around, looking for food. 

The last move I showed was The Mysterious Island (1929). While it was a rushed attempt at making a talkie, it was a great Sci-Fi, comedy, romance, whatever it was for its time. I don't think I'll ever forget the 'merpeople' or the their giant monster (aka a crocodile? with spikes stuck to its back).