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The Glenda Farrell Project :: Take 4 :: Movie Poster Spotlight :: Joan and...
When a couple of burlesque performers (Blondell, Farrell) are suspended for refusing to *ahem* dance at a private party, they both conclude a major career change is in order. Here, fate rears its...
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Meme Leech :: For the Love of Calibos! Another SLIFR Quiz-Bowl-O-Rama!
Welp, haven't done one of these in awhile. And so, courtesy of the always entertaining proprietor of Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, I present my late as always answers to the Miss Jean Brodie's...
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It's No Joke :: T-Minus Three Weeks and Counting Until April Ghouls Day!
Video courtesy of poplarhouse. I'm going. Are you?
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Trailer Park :: The Ballad of Glenn Manning :: Bert I. Gordon's Amazing...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "I'm not growing. You're shrinking!" ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ While observing the field test of a new Plutonium Bomb,...
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YouTube Finds :: Trick or Treating with Dorothy Lamour, Jack Carson and Boris...
The Sealtest Variety Theater was a musical and comedy radio program hosted by Dorothy Lamour that aired on Thursday nights for NBC from 1946-1949. Sponsored by Sealtest Dairy Products (mostly Ice...
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Favorites :: Inks and Paints :: A Coloring Book. A Coloring Book as Big as a...
Wohoo! Time to break out the Crayolas!And I never noticed it before, but, yes, according to the majority of the poster and ad artwork for the The Giant Claw, the Anti-Matter Buzzard's head is shoved up...
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Genre Mash-Up :: A 13 Vid-Cap Look at Henry Hathaway's Sagebrush Slasher, 5...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "You've preached a lot of funerals around here lately. You got something new for this one?"___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___...
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In Memoriam :: Sometimes You Experience Art...
... And sometimes the art experiences you. Yeah, idiosyncratic, obsessive, whatever compulsive term you want to use to describe him or his movies, and yes, these same eccentricities of the former...
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Travelogue :: I'm Outta Here!
Off to the April Ghoul's Monster Rama and the Friendly Confines of the Riverside Drive-In, Vandergrift, PA, folks, so the Brewery will be on hiatus for a couple weeks. Updates will resume around April...
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Travelogue :: April Ghouls Monster-Rama :: Day One :: Getting There...
Getting from where I live to the friendly confines of the Riverside Drive-In in Vandergrift, PA, is relatively simple: Take a left for about 800 miles. Take a right for about 200 miles. And then take...
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Sights and Sounds :: April Ghouls Monster-Rama :: Day 2 :: Instinct. Memory....
And so, day two of our adventure begins with a traditional trip to Vandergrift's Yakkity-Yak diner...Where the staff is friendly, though quick with the barbs (sorry about that, Sean, I'm pretty sure...
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Recommendations :: What I've Been Watching, and So Should You! Or Not...
The Crowded Sky (1960) is another fandamntastic soap-opera / airline disaster flick where once more Dana Andrews has to bring a crippled plane in for an emergency landing after a mid-air collision with...
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Sights and Sounds :: April Ghouls Monster Rama :: Day 2 :: Welcome to the...
Everyone, meet the gang. The gang, meet everyone.As we geared up, Sean introduced us to two new victims to our collective head of knuckle -- make that three new victims, Dave, Hilary, and an adorable...
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Keep Firing Until You Hit Something -- Anything! :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ “Nobody came.”“Nobody cares.”“Thanks.”"Anytime.”“It’s still not about anything.”“Yeah, I know, you told me.”___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___...
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Rue 5/1 :: The Great Netflix Purge of 2013 and the Demise of an Instant Queue.
If you've been away from your internetical interface contraptions today, you might have missed the foul odor emanating from the barren wasteland that used to be your Netflix Instant queue. That, and...
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Movie Poster Spotlight :: That's Dolores with an "O" :: Rita Moreno Bares All...
I cannot prove this scientifically but I still stand by the theory that Rita Moreno's burlesque number at the end of Marlowe increases the films re-watch-ability factor by about ohhhhhh... 5000%. Damn....
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YouTube Finds :: May the 4th Be With You :: The Tuna is Strong with This One.
Video courtesy of MrNinjenius. I believe I caught my first glimpse of this ad when it was featured on The Mike Douglas Show back in the late 1970's, with a whole program dedicated to the worldwide...
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In Memoriam :: Thank You, Ray. Thanks For Everything.
I do not have the words right now to do this right. I have always felt that to mark someone's passing one should celebrate the life led and not wail and wallow over the fact they've died. So, I'll just...
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Vintage Review Spotlight :: Ray Harryhausen Presents the Wildest Round-Up...
Our story begins at the turn of the last century down in Mexico, where a broken down circus barely ekes out a living touring the small villages along the Rio Grande. Enter Tuck Kirby (Franciscus), a...
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