must reads: “Why Is TV Suddenly Overstuffed With Buxom Bunnies, Sexy Stewardesses, and Charlie’s Angels?”
Gosh, it’s like the 60s — the early 60s — are returning with a vengeance.
1960s
retro ads: 1960s Fairy Liquid commercials
Ah, I remember when I was a little girl, and those nice long chats I had with Mommy about dish soap…
retro ad: hilariously sexist 1960s Folgers commercial
Women who can’t make coffee are bad wives, and bad people all around. It’s a basic fact.
Planet of the Apes (retro trailer)
I thought this would be a nice reminder of the past now that Rise of the Planet of the Apes is upon us.
retro ad: 1960s Volvo commercial
So awesome it hurts! Get a quick lesson in how women are all-around terrible people in less than 60 seconds!
watch it: 1960s Mystery Date commercial
Remember, girls, dating is all about your date’s accessories. If he can afford to ski, he can afford you!
watch it: 1960s Dr Pepper commercial
Are you proud to drink Dr Pepper? You should be! It’s not a cola: it’s different!
retro trailer: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
As we ponder the imminent arrival on our screens of the spectacle that is Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, let us pause to consider that he is hardly the first musically inclined young man that young ladies have screamed their heads off over…
Brighton Rock (review)
Call this a thriller of emotional suspense, and one that’s wickedly unsettling, in which we’re never sure who’s feeling what, or why, or to what extremes they’re capable of going.
John Carpenter’s The Ward (review)
Crazy hot girl is hot, I guess. Is there something perceived to be sexy about mental illness? Cuz there would appear to be no purpose here unless it’s intended to get lonely horny guys off on the idea of the tediously banal Amber Heard locked in a depressing mental institution and subject to electroshock therapy rocking her bod.
