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movie review - Bubba Ho-Tep

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.06.18

This is an outstanding flick featuring in the incomperable Bruce Campbell. It's about Elvis, set in the current time. He's an aged, bitter, and incapacitated man, living in a retirement home that is also home to JFK (played, perhaps surprisingly, by Ossie Davis) and the Lone Ranger.

At the outset of the movie, he's a delipidated shell of his former self, fighting a cancerous node on his penis and confined to his bed. But when "JFK" convinces him that there's an ancient Egyptian soul-sucking demon running loose in the home, he begins to take on a new life, rising to fight the evil.

This is a bizarre film, no doubt about it. It combines dramatic, horror, and comedic elements, and pulls it off through largely through the delivery by Davis and Campbell.

You have to see this one.

Recommended.

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On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong