Crapshoot Cinema

Blind reviews of pretty much anything. TV, movies, documentaries, whatever, from any era and almost any genre. What will appear here? Who knows…

Crapshoot Cinema: It's A Pleasure (1945)

Rebecca Deniston
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June 19, 2024
Crapshoot Cinema: It's A Pleasure (1945)

And here we have the first installment in a new series: Crapshoot Cinema, in which I do blind reviews of stuff I know little to nothing about. Movies, documentaries, TV, whatever. Any era and almost any genre. It’s not exactly regular—these reviews will come up when they come up, and some will be for paid subscribers while others won’t.

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Crapshoot Cinema: That Time I Went To A Secret Movie

Rebecca Deniston
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July 3, 2024
Crapshoot Cinema: That Time I Went To A Secret Movie

Ever gone to a secret movie? I never had until Monday, but now I think I’m hooked. Pay five dollars, see a movie way ahead of time, and just take what comes. Pretty sweet deal, right? If anyone’s not familiar with these, Cinemark calls secret movie showings their Secret Movie Series, while AMC calls theirs Screen Unse…

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Crapshoot Cinema: Condition of Return (2023)

Rebecca Deniston
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July 31, 2024
Crapshoot Cinema: Condition of Return (2023)

Crapshoot Cinema strikes again, only this time it involves 2023’s Condition of Return, which involves Dean Cain, AnnaLynn McCord, a whole lot of praying, and a whole lot of dead bodies. It also looks like a Lifetime movie, except that it’s on Tubi.

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Crapshoot Cinema: Yoga Hosers (2016)

Rebecca Deniston
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September 14, 2024
Crapshoot Cinema: Yoga Hosers (2016)

The funny thing about Crapshoot Cinema is that sometimes the movie turns out to be, well, actual crap. Yoga Hosers is one of those. I don’t even know how it got on my Tubi watchlist, but there it was.

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Crapshoot Cinema: Wonder Wheel (2017)

Rebecca Deniston
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December 14, 2024
Crapshoot Cinema: Wonder Wheel (2017)

We all have those times when something pops up that looks good enough to take a chance on, and I thought 2017’s Wonder Wheel might just hit the spot. It’s a summer movie set at Coney Island in 1950, so there’s a little vicarity there. It’s got Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, Jim Belushi and Woody Allen. What could possibly go wrong?

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Crapshoot Cinema: Voodoo Island (1957)

Rebecca Deniston
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Jan 11
Crapshoot Cinema: Voodoo Island (1957)

I don’t even know how to start this. Oh wait, yes I do: Boris Karloff is Voodoo Island’s single redeeming feature. Oh, and Adam West makes his movie debut as Weather Station #4 Radio Operator in a very brief scene.

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Crapshoot Cinema: Tomb Invader (2018)

Rebecca Deniston
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Jan 18
Crapshoot Cinema: Tomb Invader (2018)

Picking an Asylum movie for Crapshoot Cinema is kind of cheating because their movies are always varying shades of terrible, hilariously or otherwise, but when I found out they did a movie called Tomb Invader, my curiosity was piqued. How badly could The Asylum rip off Lara Croft?

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Crapshoot Cinema: A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court (1989)

Rebecca Deniston
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Feb 5
Crapshoot Cinema: A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court (1989)

Do movies I haven’t seen in a few decades still count as Crapshoot Cinema? A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur’s Court is streaming on the Roku Channel, and the last time I saw it was in 1989 when it was on NBC. Oh golly, this one’s a doozy. Twain purists might want to abandon all hope of seeing anything distinctly Twain. For the most pa…

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Crapshoot Cinema: Tomorrow We Live (1943)

Rebecca Deniston
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Feb 15
Crapshoot Cinema: Tomorrow We Live (1943)

When it comes to movies made during World War Two, it’s always interesting to see how different countries approached the conflict. America, while highlighting the grim aspects of the war, always ended with some variation of “We’re gonna kick some tail.”

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Crapshoot Cinema: The Gang's All Here (1941)

Rebecca Deniston
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Mar 1
Crapshoot Cinema: The Gang's All Here (1941)

This Monogram Pictures movie should not be mixed up with the 1943 extravaganza starring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda, although I wish it could be. Rats.

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