Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The battle that saved Germania, as German opera! The hubris and heavy-handedness of the Publius Quinctilius Varus and his three legions, and the machinations of a hostage-turned-victor, lead to Roman defeat in 1974’s “Teutoburg.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! F. Browne escapes his failed marriage to visit the Ocelot King in wild Costa Rica, but is followed by his housekeeper with her own agenda. Is she interested in the men or the myths in “the Maid, the Writer, and Jiang! (1935).”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When a man dies in the final round of a staring contest, the winner is haunted by his past and the eyes of the deceased at every turn. What he dismisses as his imagination may be something worse in 1938’s “The Eyes of Thomas Platt.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! An evil automotive-genetic engineer mutates invasive bivalves to hold Detroit for ransom. While state officials scramble for an answer, the giant newt battles on in Mizarī Studios' 2003 “Saramandāsai VS Zeborah!”
#ManInNewtMidnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! All they wanted to do on summer vacation was work on their tans, but their old girl scout troop is in trouble (again) because their magical troop leader is missing! Time to rediscover the magic in “The Djinn Scouts 2 (1991).”
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Five tales of the junior high locker of ultimate evil prove that heroism, acne, and an utter lack of common sense go hand-in-hand when you're fourteen. What is offered each, and who succumbs to the dread power of “Red 911 (1988)”?
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Details from Upton Sinclair's “the Jungle” are borrowed for this polka musical about a war between two rival meat-packing barons in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Over the top? Nope, it's the historical 931's “The Kielbasa War.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Marty Shine gets drunk after Will Deed and Grace Notes' wedding, and impulsively marries a Mexican. She disappears, they head South of the Border with annulment papers, and Timmy the Ox finds romance in 1948's ”Two-Step to Tijuana.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Come for the great martial-arts action! Tabitha Yue stars as a wushu warrior woman balancing family obligations, problematic alcoholic amorous advances, and her quest to avenge her mentor in 1973's “Mistress of Drunken Goat.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The Kacey Sisters fill-in for the stewardesses on a flying boat from San Francisco to Hong Kong. A trans-Pacific love triangle (including Frances Caldecott) and a mischievous toddler give “The Kacey Sisters’ Turbulent Times (1939).”
