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Living to Die By: The Tragic End of a Long Hard Trail :: A Beer-Gut Reaction...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "In the Southwest of the 1880s the difference between death and glory was often but a fraction of a second. This was the...
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In Memoriam :: Maureen O'Hara
Obviously, Maureen O'Hara didn't need to hitch onto John Wayne's wagon to be a movie star. And yet I always associate them with each other, which is weird because the grand total of films they actually...
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Cult Movie Project #20 (of 200) :: Some Like it Hotter and that Certain Itch...
Wanting to turn his latest in a long string of girlfriends into a singing sensation, mobster Marty "Fats" Murdock (O'Brien) must scrape the bottom of the talent agent barrel due to a lack of any...
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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time :: This Franchise Has Got a Death-Curse!...
To celebrate that kooky calendar quirk, Friday the 13th, Yours Truly decided to embark on a foolhardy marathon of Friday the 13th and all of its sequels and kept a bit of a running commentary going on...
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The Criterion Blogathon :: Taking Form Before Your Horrified Eyes! Arthur...
We open near the Canadian border, the newly minted American Air Force Interceptor Command Base and experimental Atomic Radar Station at Winthrop, Manitoba, to be specific. And since livestock and...
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Bought for the Cover and the Cover Alone Book Club Presents :: Peter Tonkin's...
Okay, Boils and Ghouls, while the premise of an Orca bred to enormous size, trained and weaponized by the U.S. Navy to destabilize Vietnamese ports that escapes from its training facility when betrayed...
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Cult Movie Project #21 (of 200) :: Best Viewed in a Subaru: Artie and George...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ x"Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness the ravishment of a woman who has been abducted; a woman whose initial fear has...
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Movie Poster Spotlight :: Foreign Jobs :: A Beautiful Set of Italian...
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) Associates and Aldrich Company :: The Seven Arts Pictures :: Warner Bros. / EP: Kenneth Hyman / P: Robert Aldrich / D: Robert Aldrich / W: Lukas Heller, Henry...
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The Celluloid Zeroes Proudly Present: Dirty Hex Appeal, A Vengeful Witch...
In a darkened bedroom somewhere in suburban southern California, a cloaked figure confidentially works her way through some arcane ritual; an easy assumption judging by the décor and ephemera that...
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Favorites :: Vintage Newspaper Adverts :: "Holy Mackeral, What a Show!" :...
Oh, man, please tell me that out there, somewhere, there's some newsreel footage of this calvacade. And though not quite the blowout, here's a bonus look at the ads for King Kong's premiere at Radio...
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YouTube Finds :: Rainy Days and Mondays Always Gets Me Down: Todd Haynes'...
Karen Carpenter had always considered herself a drummer who sang. And despite decades worth of jokes on this notion, apparently her skills with the sticks were bona fide -- I mean if Buddy Rich says...
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Never Noticed THAT Before :: Creeping the Leak in Chuck Russell and Frank...
The first time I watched Chuck Russell's remake of The Blob (1988) at the old Imperial 3 Theater I thought it was pretty good as far as rehashes go; a fairly faithful modernization of a classic...
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Favorites :: Vintage Tuneage :: Couldn't Miss This One This Year.
Video courtesy of scamparoo."So deck those halls. Trim those trees. Raise up cups of Christmas cheer.I just need to catch my breath; Christmas by myself this year."One of my all time favorite Holiday...
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Happy Holdays :: The 10th Annual All-Night Christmas Craptacular Movie...
As it is with most holiday traditions, the problem is they just won’t die. And due to some family festivities running a bit long on Christmas Eve, coupled with a harrowing drive home through some...
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Favorites of 2015 :: Heroes, Ghosts, Sagas, Reboots, and Rehashes, the Year...
That time of year, Boils and Ghouls, where we get down to lists, lists and nothing but film lists as we fritter and fret over what was the best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2015. Thus and...
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Favorite Scenes :: When Visiting Scenic Wakulla Springs, Be Wary of the...
Mark Williams is one of those guys. One of those necessary guys who form the Never-Had-A-Chance corner of a lopsided love-triangle; one of those schmucks who were around to make the hero seem more...
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Hail and Happy 81st Birthday to the King :: A Different Kind of Role Nets the...
Apparently, charro is Spanish for cowboy, and so we open with a very specific charro emerging from the desert, entering a fly-speck village along the Mexican border, then settling down the nervous...
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Will This Be On the Test? :: A Pass / Fail Beer-Gut Reaction to the Nuts and...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___“One day the AIs are gonna look back on us the same way we look at fossils.” ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___...
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Favorites :: A Movie Within a Movie :: Rendezvousing at the Orbit in Jim...
I've gushed at length elsewhere about my love for author Joe R. Lansdale. And one of the things which has always enamored me to his books and short stories is that through several hints and throwaway...
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Favorites :: Pin-Ups :: The Girls of American International Pictures: Patti...
A native of Culver City, California, Patti Chandler won her initial role as a beachnik bikini bunny in Bikini Beach (1964) through a KRLA radio station contest. From there, she starred in Pajama Party,...
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