by Joel G. Robertson “Sometimes that [Dude] he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about [The Dude]… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes.” —…
by Joel G. Robertson “Everyone has a forgotten flick, it seems.” — Ian Sowers Ian said the above to me in an email recently. He was referring to the fact that, after his own contribution…
by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) The contributions in this final segment run the gamut from exploitation to a movie that’s only a couple years old, but all the films have one…
by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) No ballyhoo from me, let’s just dig right into the steaming meat sauce and sour cream and onion potato chips with this second segment of movie…
by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) For this pre-Thanksgiving (in the States anyway) Mall Twin Musing, I thought I’d ask several of my movie blogging, podcasting, and filmmaking friends to share with…
by Joel G. Robertson “Like stumbling into a 1980s dream…” That quote came from fellow blogger Kimster (whose own blog That’s What She Said is definitely worth following). She was referring to this site and…
by Joel G. Robertson Okay. Here’s the deal folks. This post is not about a forgotten flick. Hell, it’s not even about an older, well-known flick. It’s about the filmmaker Frank Darabont and his involvement…
by Joel G. Robertson Like you, I’m a movie fan. A HUGE movie fan (I think film geek is overused, but it definitely applies). I’m launching Forgotten Flix as a community for you, the movie…
by Joel G. Robertson 29 days and counting until the official launch of the Forgotten Flix blog, a place where I will be waxing poetic (okay, maybe not “poetic,” but I will occasionally use iambic…
So, what, pray tell (my obnoxiously foo-foo way of saying explain) is a forgotten flick?
Well, that’s easy enough. A forgotten flick is simply any movie you remember but no one else does. I find that the older I get the more often this is happening. Most often it’s when I’m talking to some young whippersnapper and goes something like this: