What would you get if you mixed the premise of the H.G. Wells story “Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth” with that of the beach party film genre? Now, no one in their right mind would even posit such a question but questionable sanity was never really a concern of producer/writer/director…
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Son of Flubber (1963) – Review
With the success of The Absent-Minded Professor, a sequel was certainly not out of the question but Walt Disney himself abhorred sequels and despite the original making over $25 million dollars a sequel would never have been made if not for the fact that there were several unused Flubber gags sitting on the shelf.
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – Review
Long before Doc Brown was installing a time-travelling device inside a DeLorean Professor, Ned Brainard was outfitting his Model T with an anti-gravity material in this Disney classic from 1961which is a perfect example of the trope of the befuddled scientist that the movie was named after and Fred MacMurray played the part brilliantly, and…