Cinema Basement

 A retrospective by Brooks Rich Merry Christmas, everyone. No this has nothing to do with Christmas. I mean it has Christian overtones and has to do with the struggles of faith but there's nothing holly or jolly in this film. This is a weird one and I will keep this short as I could have written a full in depth essay on this one back in film school. I would have had I know about it. This is one of those films I'll bring up that's not for everyone. It's a surreal film written and directed by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist. Sometime during the end of the Vietnam War a castle in the Pacific Northwest, sure yeah, is being used an insane asylum for military veterans. Inmates include a man putting on an all dog adaptation of Shakespeare and an astronaut who snapped on the eve of a mission. A new commanding officer is taking over, Colonel Kane, played by a brilliant and subdued Stacy Keach, but he may be crazier than the inmates.  There's a lot more to this.

 A review by Forrest Humphrey In the wake of Mysterio revealing his secret identity to the world and framing him for murder, life has become quite harrowing for Peter Parker, his family and his friends. Hoping to at least pull the people close to him out of the mess, Peter turns to a friend from the Avengers, Doctor Strange, to help him. The plan? Cast a spell to make the whole world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Unfortunately, things go awry when Peter panics upon realizing “Everyone” includes MJ, Ned and Aunt May. He tampers with the spell and things get even worse from the attempt. Not only does everyone still remember, but the spell pulls in some uninvited guests who also know about Peter Parker's life as Spider-man. Now Peter has to stop these multiverse visitors from making his own world worse.   That's the basic premise from the trailers and I wont go further than that. This film had a great deal to live up to, considering everything its trying to follow up