X the Unknown (1956)

X the Unknown (1956)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 25, 2015Radioactive Blob Amok
An early Hammer film, an attempt to exploit the success of their Quatermass films. This prefigures the menace of The Blob by a couple of years (while adding a few dashes of the atomic monster fad) but comes with a stark b/w urgency that makes this by far the better film

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Rating: ★★
Dec 16, 2001Doctor That Can Speak to Animals/Musical
This gets the nonsensical absurdity of the original Doctor Dolittle stories far more than the Eddie Murphy version ever did. On the other hand, this was the era of Mary Poppins and everything is played as a lumbering over-budgeted musical