Trying a new post after forever and a day.
Remember Tom Hopper from the old Merlin series. Now on the Umbrella Academy (sadly now over). Unfortunately, they kept him in a monkey suit for much of the first three seasons, but finally got him out of it in the last one.
From 1997, Johnathan Schaech is Teddy, a con man on the run from a deal gone bad trying to sell rare birds in New York. He winds up in Australia, where he meets Angie, a strange woman who watches him shower and then hitches a ride with him. After a brief fling, Teddy finds himself knocked out and then wakes up in the town of Woop Woop run by Angie’s psycho father Daddy-O (Rod Taylor) in middle of nowhere Australia. Teddy finds that the bizarre townsfolk consider him married to Angie and that Daddy-O never lets anyone leave town and there’s no contact with the outside world. Pretty funny film and it finds lots of excuses to get Schaech in varying states of undress.
A few more gratuitous beach pics.
Another batch from another day of “guy watching” at the beach.
Just a couple of shots from a trip to the beach:
Blood for Dracula is the quasi-sequel to Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein. Udo Kier returns in the title role as a sickly Count Dracula on the prowl for “wirgins” to marry and take their blood so he can survive. Arno Juerging is again the servant of the title monster, but this time a little more assertive in handling his ailing master. Convinced by his servant to load up the coffin and head to Italy, the count stumbles upon a down at the heels aristocratic family with four daughters for him to choose from. Unfortunately for the count, Joe Dallesandro is a man servant on the estate who’s been seeing to it that some of the sisters no longer have virgin blood.
And this time around, we get Udo out of his shirt, too.
Y Tu Mama Tambien follows Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) best friends who spend time flirting with an older married woman who ends up calling their bluff to take her to a fabulous beach. A beach neither boy knows how to find. The three take off in a battered old car and miraculously come across a beach that’s close enough. The three develop an offbeat relationship but things come to an end when the guys finally get a little too intimate with one another for their own comfort.
From 1989 and the discount rack, Cage is the story of Billy (Lou Ferrigno) and Scott (Reb Brown). In Vietnam, Billy saves Scott’s life at the cost of taking a bullet in the head leaving him with a child’s mind in a very big guy’s body. Scott makes it his mission to repay Billy by taking care of him. The two come to the attention of a gambler during a fight at Scott’s bar when they beat up a gang bent on causing trouble. The gambler destroys their lives and manipulates Billy into a death match cage fight where he’s sure the mentally challenged man will beat the champ and provide him a way out of his debts. A fair buddy action flick of sorts with the interesting twist being the mentally challenged Billy, but nothing to go out of your way for other than the muscle men stripped to the waist.
