Today is the perfect day to watch Night of the Lepus (1972).

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Well, the nominations for the 2008 Golden Raspberry Awards (The Razzies) have been announced, and it truly is a motley bunch. Vying for Worst Picture of the year are: Disaster Movie, The Happening, The Hottie and the Nottie, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, The Love Guru and Meet the Spartans. Director Uwe Boll (who was responsible for In the Name of the King) has been especially singled out for his atrocious body of work with the Worst Career Achievement Award. While it’s all in good fun to “make fun” of the worst Hollywood has to offer, a disturbing trend has continued with this years nominees. Originally, the Razzies singled out movies that were so bad that they were good, like Can’t Stop the Music (1980), Xanadu (1980), Tarzan: The Ape Man (1981), Butterfly (1982), Jaws 3-D (1983) and The Lonely Lady(1983). Nowadays, sitting through a Razzie nominated film is like some kind of endurance test. A Senate subcommittee would surely rule that water boarding and having to watch The Hottie and the Nottie are both unacceptable forms of extreme torture. Call me old-fashioned, but I perfer my bad movies to bring a smile to my face, not a grimace. After all, there’s bad, and then there’s BAD.

For a complete listing of the 2008 Razzie nominees, visit the offical Razzie website.

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Since it is not yet available on DVD (WTF!?!) be sure not to miss the side-splitting bad movie classic, The Oscar (1966) which airs on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday Dec. 30th. Click here for the complete CCT review.

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Below is a clip featuring the iconic gunbarrel opening shots from Dr. No (1962) through Casino Royale (2006). Though the gunbarrel essentially remained unchanged for 30 years (it recieved a facelift for 1995’s Goldeneye) it’s interesting to compare the different takes on Monty Norman’s classic theme.

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You may be asking yourself, just who exactly is Diane McBain? As a starlet in the 1960’s, McBain co-starred in some of my all-time favorite camp classics such as the soapy Troy Donahue melodrama Parrish (1961), the Joan Crawford psycho-drama The Caretakers (1963), and the teens on dope flick Maryjane (1968). Below is the trailer for her foray into the biker-chick genre The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968).

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