Out With the New :: Top Ten Films of 2014. No. Not Yours. Mine. So, There....
While I have yet to see everything I wanted to see spawned in 2014, I did manage to actually see more than 10 new films the past calendar year with nary a dud in the bunch -- well, except for I,...
View ArticleHail and Happy 80th Birthday to the King! :: A 30 Vidcap Look at Robert Abel...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"My daddy had seen a lot of people who played guitars and stuff and didn't work. So he told me, you should make up your mind about either...
View ArticleVintage Tuneage :: A Boy, A Girl, and a Shark :: Johnny Cymbal's The Water...
Video courtesy of Johnny Cymbal - Topic.Johnny Cymbal
View ArticleTrailer Park :: Up Bluff Creek Without a Paddle in Bobcat Goldthwait's Willow...
When an amateur Bigfoot enthusiast cons his girlfriend into a weekend expedition into the California wilderness, hoping to retrace the trail that Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin took back in 1967, which...
View ArticleFavorites :: Behind the Scenes :: Bert I. Gordon & The Amazing Colossal...
Other Points of Interest:Full review of The Amazing Colossal Man at the Brewery.Poster campaign for The Amazing Colossal Man at the Archive.Newspaper ads for The Amazing Colossal Man at the Morgue.
View ArticleRecommendations :: What to Watch, What Not to Watch, and All Points In-Between!
As we all know by now, I'm a sucker for any kind of Sasquatch Cinema, so when YouTube coughed up The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008) up I eagerly gave it a spin. After a fantastic opening credit crawl,...
View ArticleFavorites :: Inks and Paints :: Animatics for Dr. Morbius' Maliciously...
Since MGM had no animation department to realize the monster for their film, Forbidden Planet, they arranged a loan from Walt Disney in the form of Joshua Meador, who not only brought the terrifying Id...
View ArticleBlogathon Alert! :: Celebrating the Cinema and Scope of CinemaScope!
“Before IMAX, there was CinemaScope – basically, movies filmed in a much wider image than had been the norm up to that point in film history. The curved-screen image of Cinerama was the predecessor,...
View ArticleDo Three Idiots Plus One Brain Cell Equal a Rip-Off or a Homage? :: A...
Our film opens at the reading of the will of multi-gabillionaire, Oscar Winterhaven Oglethorpe. Well, not quite. Seems Victor Lazlo (Savident), the late swell's slime-ball attorney, wants to begin but...
View ArticleIn Memoriam :: To Boldly Go in Another Direction.
"Lost civilizations ... Extraterrestrials ... Myths and Monsters ... Missing persons ... Magic and witchcraft ... Unexplained phenomenon ... In Search Of... cameras are traveling the world, seeking out...
View ArticleMovie Poster Spotlight :: "Guerreros de Salir a Jugar-ar-ar!" :: A Set of...
Full review of The Warriors coming soon. Watch this space, Boils and Ghouls.Other Points of Interest:Poster campaign for The Warriors at the Archive.The Warriors (1979) Paramount Pictures / EP: Frank...
View ArticleWatch This Space :: It Begins Here: The Cult Movie Project. One Year, 200...
After finishing up Patton Oswalt's truly remarkable cinematic memoir, Silver Screen Fiend, I now have a film quest for 2015 and beyond. And that is to finally see all the films in all three...
View ArticleRePost :: Trailer Park :: Saddle Your Hogs for One Final Ride to Glory, Man!...
When The Black Souls rumble up on the leader of their bitter rivals, the Glory Stompers, who picked the wrong time and the wrong, secluded spot for some private snoggin' with his old lady, the skuzzy...
View ArticleThe Cult Movie Project: #1 (of 200) :: Vad Bedrar Dessa Dödliga Vara ::...
Ignorance is bliss. And fate sucks. That is what I came away with after finally seeing Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, his most well known film -- mostly for the indelible image of...
View ArticleThe CinemaScope Blogathon :: The Widescreen Wonder that Almost Wasn't: John...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "What's wrong with this town of yours, Miss Wirth? It just seems to me that there aren't many towns like [Black Rock] in America....
View ArticleCult Movie Project #2 (of 200) :: A Classical Gas: Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940)
Apparently, Walt Disney had intended "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" to be a stand-alone vehicle to boost his flagging flagship character, Mickey Mouse, whose box-office appeal had been stagnating....
View ArticleYouTube Finds :: Welcome to the Fear You Can Hear! The CBS Radio Mystery...
Video courtesy of Scott Field. In the business for nearly seven decades, Himan "Hi" Brown produced a staggering 30,000 radio programs during his career (The Adventures of the Thin Man, Dick Tracy,...
View ArticleThe Cult Movie Project: #3 (of 200) :: Blood on the Blackboard -- Well, Sort...
About a million years ago, I caught Renee Daalder's Massacre at Central High (1976) in the wee hours of the morning on one of the SuperStations -- you know, when the SuperStations didn't suck. And now...
View ArticleThe Fine Art of Sequential Credits :: DePatie-Freleng's Return to the Planet...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "They're apes! They can speak?!"___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ After Warner Bros. boarded up Termite Terrace in 1963, officially bringing an...
View ArticleThe Cult Movie Project #4 (of 200) :: DANGER! Children at Play: Jonathan...
There's a certain age, we've all been through it, where confusion reigns. An age where we're old enough to truly know better but too young (foolish and stubborn and stupid) to care and do what we're...
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