The plot is all over the place, the acting is horrible, the pacing is glacial, and – despite what the title implies – there is nothing satanic going on. Nevertheless, it still has a fun pulpy 1960s vibe to it. Worth watching if for no other reason than the awesome outfits.
Saw this Ben signed at the end.
Tonight’s Mets game is being broadcast by AppleTV instead of the usual SNY broadcast that DeMarsico normally directs, and it’s really making me miss his signature cinematic / humanistic touches.
(This is yet another film I’ve added to TMDB so I can log it here on Letterboxd.)
My dad, Marcus Sherman, appears throughout this short documentary from his time at the New Alchemy Institute in the 1970s on Cape Cod. The group worked on various projects that fall under what would now be considered “hippie modernism”, with a focus on sustainable living.
One of the things my dad worked on, and is shown in the film, was developing low-tech windmills to pump water and generate electricity. This work would lead him to other related projects all over…
Saw this at 3pm on a Thursday because all the other reasonable showtimes throughout the days seemed to be sold out in the dozens of theaters near me in NYC. (The only other options would have involved going to Times Square before noon.) This one is gonna crush it at the box office.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Was surprised how much Mattel allowed themselves to be skewered in a movie they produced. It makes me wonder if they were…
