DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Slime City (1988) Satanists woo unwitting goober with evil body-transforming yogurt. Normal viewers can pass, but fans of goo-movies like Street Trash should have a blast. TIL: Scandalously, Jesus often ate with sinners, but to help transform them, not the other way around.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Imprudence - Prudence is "an intellectual habit enabling us to see in any given juncture of human affairs what is virtuous and what is not, and how to come at the one and avoid the other.... Without prudence bravery becomes foolhardiness."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Dawn of the Beast (2021) Millennials vs. Wendigo. The question is, whose side will Bigfoot take? What a SyFy flick could be if they cared. TIL: The obligation to protect neighbors unjustly attacked provides justification for the use of force, though Just War principles apply.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Injustice (Inaffability) - "Among the virtues annexed to justice are... affability, by which one is suitably adapted to his fellow-men in social intercourse so as to behave toward each appropriately."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Suburban Sasquatch (2004) To defeat a teleporting Bigfoot, an atheist reporter must call on God and a mystic warrior woman. We're talking Birdemic-level stuff here. TIL: Even if we're not looking for God, He's always looking for us, even in weird Bigfoot-type situations.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Lying (Officious) - "An officious, or white, lie is such that it does nobody any injury... [however] when a habit of untruthfulness has been contracted, it is practically impossible to restrict its vagaries to matters which are harmless."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) Ken Russell made a B-movie? Yep, about a slinky snake-woman and her phallic pagan god, so, just what you'd expect. TIL: Belloc derisively defined new Paganism as a religion in which humans have no purpose beyond food, drugs, and their genitals.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Dishonoring of a Parent - "Parents being the natural providence of their offspring, invested with authority for their guidance and correction, and holding the place of God before them, the child is bidden to honour and respect them."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Frankenhooker (1990) Man tries to improve his dead fiancé with parts from prostitutes, which try to get back to work. Henenlotter and Troma don't do subtle. TIL: The Church considers prostitution a scourge as it disregards human dignity and reduces one to a instrument to be used.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Accomplice to Evil - To formally cooperate in the sin of another is to be associated with him in the performance of a bad deed in so far forth as it is bad, that is, to share in the perverse frame of mind of that other.

And finally, this week marks the 15th anniversary of The B-Movie Catechism (link in the bio). Yeah, I know, 15 years. Not to worry, though, there's still plenty of bad movies left to keep this silliness going for years to come. My sincere thanks to all who have dropped by over that time.

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Shadowzone (1990) Sleeping test subjects bring monsters into our world. Who had blackmail material on Louise Fletcher to get her in this? TIL: As choice is limited during sleep, we are not morally responsible for our actions in dreams. Lucid dreaming might be another story.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Willful Ignorance - "When ignorance is deliberately aimed at and fostered, it is said to be affected, not because it is pretended, but rather because it is sought for by the agent so that he may not have to relinquish his purpose."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Hercules in New York (1970) Pre-Conan Arnie leaves Olympus for the Big Apple where he wrestles a guy in a bear suit. Crazy bad, but... no, just bad. TIL: A favorite Internet atheist trope is to compare Jesus to Hercules, which proves only they've never actually read a Bible.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Anger - "The desire of vengeance... It becomes sinful when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved, or in conflict with the dispositions of law, or from an improper motive."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Dark Side of The Moon (1990) Sure it's another low budget Alien ripoff, but it gets points for being the only one to replace the xenomorph with... Satan! TIL: For the advancements he made in astronomy, Jesuit priest Jean-Felix Picard has a moon crater named in his honor.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Avarice - "The inordinate love for riches. Its special malice, broadly speaking, lies in that it makes the getting and keeping of money, possessions, and the like, a purpose in itself to live for."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Unborn (1991) Dubious fertility treatments cause really abnormal fetal activity. Basically Rosemary's Baby/It's Alive on a dime. TIL: The first person to recognize Jesus as Lord was the unborn John the Baptist, who got really active when the pregnant Mary came for a visit.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Lying (Jocose) - "Jocose lies are told for the purpose of affording amusement... in order to have any malice in it, what is said must be naturally capable of deceiving others and must be said with the intention of saying what is false."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Severed Ties (1992) Limb regeneration experiments go wrong. Hey, anything with both Oliver Reed and Garrett Morris can't be all bad. TIL: In 1641, a formal inquiry determined that Miguel Pellicer of Calanda had regrown a leg due to the intercession of the Virgin of the Pillar.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Gluttony - "The excessive indulgence in food and drink. The moral deformity discernible in this vice lies in its defiance of the order postulated by reason, which prescribes necessity as the measure of indulgence in eating and drinking."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Voices (2014) The dog prefers Ryan Reynolds not behead his coworkers, but the cat's okay with it. Darkly funny, but kind of sad as well. TIL: Edmonton Archbishop Collins reminds us that, "Schizophrenia is a serious real illness that should elicit sympathy rather than fear."

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Pride (2) - "The excessive love of one's own excellence. It is ordinarily accounted one of the seven capital sins. St. Thomas, however... considers it the queen of all vices, and puts vainglory in its place as one of the deadly sins."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Gaia (2021) Weird forest traps park ranger. Fine hybrid of Annihilation and The Ruins, but not as odd or unsettling as either. TIL: JPII warned that in his desire to have and enjoy rather than to be and grow, man consumes the earth's resources in an excessive and disordered way.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Violence - "An impulse from without tending to force one without any concurrence on his part to act against his choice... It is apparent that in so far as coercion is irresistible, the agent is not responsible for the external act resulting."

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Night of the Dribbler (1990) Someone commits lethal personal fouls against a high school basketball team. Mostly unfunny vehicle for impressionist Fred Travalena. TIL: Pope Francis hailed basketball as a sport that lifts you up to the heavens because it's one that looks upwards.

The Many Sins of Jimmy Olsen - Jealousy (1) - "Taken to be synonymous with envy. It is defined to be a sorrow which one entertains at another's well-being because of a view that one's own excellence is in consequence lessened."