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To Kick Off Your Memorial Day Weekend, Here's Birthday Boy Vincent Price with...
“Here, in all its glory, is the great American hot dog. Originally a sausage invented in Frankfurt, the hot dog is now as American as blueberry pie, and under the proper circumstances it can be one of...
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Recommendations :: What I've Been Watching and So Should You -- Or Not :: May...
While half of this documentary focuses on my fellow collectors showing off the size of their collections, the other half of Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys (2014) focuses on the fascinating...
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Favorites :: Vintage Tuneage :: How Nature Points Up the Folly of Men
Video courtesy of Dinovideos100.Blue Öyster Cult:Eric Bloom, Donald Roeser, Allen Lanier, Joe Bouchard, Albert Bouchard
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Boy! Does The Delos Corporation Have a Vacation for You! :: A Beer-Gut...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___“Draw.” ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___To prove they’ve cornered the market on the ultimate resort package, the...
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In Memoriam :: Left to Flounder.
Admit it. You go through life wanting to be a Bluto, but we all know deep down in our hearts we will always were, and will forever be, a Flounder.I honest to god had a come to "fat drunk and stupid is...
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Favorites :: Behind the Scenes :: They Sure Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To...
"Movie making has changed quite a lot. Back in what they called the Golden Age Hollywood, most movies were made in places like this. This is MGM's Lot #2. Since 1927 almost six hundred pictures have...
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Good Reads :: Standing On the Edge of the Opportunities and the Perils of...
I would argue that Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier (2004) is probably the best thing DC Comics has published in the last twenty or so years. Set in the gray area between the Golden and Silver Age of...
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The Fine Art of Sequential Credits :: You Know, I Think the Tide Was With...
There. Did you see them? Way back in the background? No? OK. How about now: Yeah. That's one of my favorite throwaway bits in JAWS (1975); how, behind the closing credits, we actually get to see Brody...
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A Whaler, A Gunslinger and The Blacklist Walk Into a Saloon :: A Beer-Gut...
OK. Stop me if you’ve heard of this kinda well-worn oater before: Somewhere in east Texas sometime around the late 1800s lies the town of Prairie City, currently under the thumb of a swindling robber...
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In Memoriam :: He's Dead. We're All Messed Up :: R.I.P. George A. Romero.
The word just broke that George Romero has passed away. And as a way to commemorate everything he has done, I will echo back to some words I wrote about the passing of Bill Hinzman and the effect Night...
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On the Big Screen :: Implied Horror and Wishing For Things that Weren't in...
Our film opens in a rundown neighborhood, with a twitchy mom seeing her young daughter off on her training-wheeled bike; destination, to check on a nest of baby birds up the street. Seems simple but...
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Recommendations :: What I've Been Pressing Play On, And So Should You! Or...
Was finally able to take a look at Lake Nowhere (2014), and while touted as a throwback slasher movie this is more of an Evil Dead, spam in a cabin exercise -- well, make that more like Within the...
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In Memoriam :: Farewll to the King: Haruo Nakajima
Today is a sad day, for Haruo Nakajima has left us. For those unfamiliar, he was the man in the monster suit from Godzilla King of the Monsters (1956) through Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972), bringing a...
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Faster Than a Speeding Rotoscope! Or! When Max Fleischer Took a Speeding...
When people say they don’t like Superman because he’s too overpowered, too vanilla, or too boring I immediately tell them to stop, to shut up, and to seek out the old Fleischer brothers animated...
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Events :: If You Happen to Be in Grand Island, NE, This Weekend Come See Us...
Yeah, that hairless Sasquatch on the right with the pretty, pretty lips is me. And inspired by the Best Brains behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, me and my friends Mike and Matt will be spending...
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Recommendations :: Arrow Films Throws a Much Needed Spotlight on J.S....
Plagued by a series of reoccurring nightmares her whole life, an already mentally unstable artist named Kay (Kendal) now appears to be on the verge of a total nervous breakdown. Seems those night...
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Netflix'd :: Clearing Out the Instant Queue :: A Spoiler Free Quick Beer-Gut...
Something kept going through my head as I bogarted my way through The Defenders (2017) on Netflix over the past 20 some odd hours. Actually, a name. And that name was Sandy Frank. See, back in ye olden...
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Favorites :: Behind the Scenes :: Nightmares Leech Into the Daylight :: Tobe...
The one thing that always struck me about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is how the vast majority of the film, and a lot of the murder and the mayhem, takes place during the light of day -- the...
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We'll Meet Again? Well, I Sure as Hell Hope So! But, You Never Know...
BWell, it's that time of year again folks as the Annual September Sabbatical is once more upon us, which means I will back away from the keyboard and let my typing knuckles scab over and spend some...
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As Darkness Falls Across the Land, With the Midnight Hour Close at Hand,...
Three More Days 'til Hubrisween.Hubrisween. Hubrisween.Three More Days 'til HubrisweenWhat the Hell Was I Thinking?! Here's What the Hell I Was Thinking. You pick the movie. You watch the movie. You...
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