Good Reads :: A 250 Page Mission to Boldly Go Where No Zombie Has Gone Before!
Just finished up Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall's "Night of the Living Trekkies", a novel which concerns the staff at a Houston hotel as they brace themselves for the onslaught of a weekend Star...
View ArticleSTOP! Don't Trip Over that Ending :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to Michael...
Six years after her husband's crucial testimony sent a co-worker to prison for murdering their boss, the wife (Kerr) stumbles upon a conspiracy to blackmail the star witness. Seems the blackmailer...
View ArticleBlogathons Ahoy! We're Gonna Whip 'Em. Whip 'Em Good.
Following several enticing bread crumbs, I now find myself happily participating in Silver Screenings and The Rosebud Cinema's 1967 Blogathon. (Of course, I just wrote up In the Heat of the Night....
View ArticleVintage Tuneage :: Do Ya, Do Ya, Do Ya, Do Ya Wanna Dance?
Do you wanna dance, under the moonlight? Squeeze me baby, all through the night. Oh baby, do you wanna dance? Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance? Video courtesy of AllRamonesMusic.Well, do you,...
View ArticleRecommendations :: What You Should or Shouldn't Be Watching. Choose, but...
Well, with it's heart in the right place and a foot squarely in its own mouth, Gila! (2012), Jim Wynorski's remake of The Giant Gila Monster, boldly goes exactly where you think it will go and, you...
View ArticleZeig Heil! *thhbtth* Heil! *thhbtth* Right in Der Führer’s Pickle Jar :: A...
Our grainy film begins with a sweaty Professor Bernard nervously taking a phone call while stuffing documents into his briefcase. Assuring the party on the other end that he has it, well, whatever the...
View ArticleYouTube Finds :: Vintage Radio :: When There's No More Room In Hell, the Dead...
Fell down an apocalyptic YouTube hole last night and stumbled upon this, The Peoria Plague, a War of the Worlds-esque radio dramatization of a zombie outbreak broadcast by WUHN, Peoria, back in 1972....
View ArticleGood Reads :: You'll Never Know What Real Fear is Until You're Caught in the...
Dr. Kate Dwyer, lead herpetologist at the University of Albuquerque, has no idea why she's been summoned to a clandestine meeting with the governor of New Mexico, but she gets her explanation quick...
View ArticleFavorites :: Behind the Scenes :: Two of a Kind Publicity Photo from Ghost...
I just love the sheepish, inner-8-year-old channeling by Andy Devine and Lon Chaney Jr. in this publicity photo. After finally tracking down and enjoying the hell out of Hellzapoppin' (1941), alas, all...
View ArticleBoob Tube'n :: Crude Britannia Rules! :: The Young Ones (1982-1984)
I clearly remember as a kid spending my late Sunday nights watching reruns of Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS with my older brothers back in the mid-1970s. At the time, I was little too young to...
View ArticleNetflix'd :: Clearing Out the Instant Que :: A Boy, a Tiger, and Comical...
Well, turns out Dear Mr. Watterson (2013), a documentary on the creator of the much beloved Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, was not the worthless fan-lip-service-circle-jerk that I both feared and was...
View ArticleThe 1967 in Film Blogathon :: Whodunit? Who Cares! It's All Edgar Wallace's...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"You plan is perfect. Who would look for a murderer in prison?" ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___Our...
View ArticleIn Memoriam :: The Ecstasy of Such Talent Cannot Be Measured in Gold.
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View ArticleFavorites :: Comic Book Covers :: That Golden Touch.
Ten to fifteen year old me could never understand why guys like Michael Golden (our featured cover artist) and Art Adams never got any steady monthly penciling gigs on a series. (The Micronauts a...
View ArticleFavorites :: Cinematic Locations :: The Alamo Drive-In, Where Everything...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"It's never in focus!"___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ The Texas Film Commission was founded in 1971 to "encourage the orderly development of the...
View ArticleVintage Tuneage :: Total Nirvana :: Smells Like Los Straightjackets to Me.
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View ArticleAll Spark But No Fire :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to George Marshall's The Forest...
The Forest Rangers (1942) is a vintage rom-com, where a slightly singed forest ranger (MacMurray) falls head over heels hard for a visiting city girl (Goddard); so hard he marries her on the spot --...
View ArticleThe John Ford Blogathon :: A Rescue Or A Reckoning? That is the Question in...
"The camera frames and moves with a lone horseman. He is Ethan Edwards; a man as hard as the country he is crossing. Ethan is in his forties with a three-day stubble of beard. Dust is caked in the...
View ArticleRecommendations :: We Rec'em, You Wreck'em :: Another Batch of Flicks that...
The film that John Wayne backed out of and turned over to Randolph Scott so he could make The Searchers, 7 Men From Now (1956) sparked a fantastic seven movie odyssey with director Budd Boetticher and...
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