‘M’ (1931) January 11, 2021 // 0 Comments Paranoia in pre-WWII Berlin The director of 1931’s “M,” Fritz Lang, and the film’s star, Peter [...]
‘Holly Jolly’ photo gallery December 28, 2020 // 0 Comments Some readers have started a trend. Okay, it’s a trend nudged along by my brother and sister-in-law. But I’ll [...]
‘Vampyr’ (1932) December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments Dreyer’s shadowy world Yes, Carl Theodor Dreyer‘s “Vampyr” deserves respect as a pioneer in the vampire [...]
‘Giant From the Unknown’ (1958) December 19, 2020 // 0 Comments Nice scenery, lame monster ‘Giant From the Unknown: Deluxe Edition’ The Film Detective General release: $24.95 [...]
Le Temps December 17, 2020 // 0 Comments Nothing lost in translation By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” [...]
Stephanie Stuckey December 15, 2020 // 0 Comments What’s in a name By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “The [...]
South of the Border December 9, 2020 // 0 Comments An Interstate 95 classic BLOGGER’S NOTE: Following is my third and final post about my recent trek from New Jersey to [...]
Stuckey’s then and now December 8, 2020 // 0 Comments Pecan Log Rolls & NRA propaganda Once you bite into a Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll, you never forget it — for [...]
Barreling down Interstate 95 December 8, 2020 // 0 Comments Boiled peanuts & Trump-Pence Covid 19 was setting new records everywhere … Donald Trump was loudly contesting the [...]
Home for the holidays, not December 6, 2020 // 0 Comments What? Another shelter-in-place holiday? Talk about “just like the ones I didn’t used to know.” So the [...]
‘The Other Side of Madness’ (1971) December 1, 2020 // 0 Comments Where a studio film dared not go ‘The Other Side of Madness: Limited 50th Anniversary Edition’ The Film Detective $29.95 [...]
‘War of the Satellites’ (1958) November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments What hath Sputnik wrought? The first thing you must know about “War of the Satellites” is that it was a response [...]
‘Day the World Ended’ (1956) November 19, 2020 // 0 Comments Apocalypse then Was Roger Corman trying to trick moviegoers into thinking this was a sequel or re-release of “The Day [...]
‘The Mole People’ (1956) November 18, 2020 // 0 Comments Underground cinema We 1960s monster freaks have always thought of “The Mole People” as a monster movie. But is [...]
‘Invasion of the Saucer Men’ (1957) November 17, 2020 // 0 Comments The ultimate B.E.M.s When my generation of movie buffs were teenagers — this was pre-Internet, pre-tablet, pre-DVD, [...]
‘The Man Who Laughs’ (1928) November 16, 2020 // 0 Comments Move over, Quasimodo Though Universal’s “Phantom of the Opera” (1925) and “Dracula” (1931) are separated by a [...]
‘The Brain Eaters’ (1958) November 16, 2020 // 0 Comments Nelson, VeSota’s big chance Ed Nelson — billed in “The Brain Eaters” as Edwin Nelson — had what it [...]
‘Attack of the Crab Monsters’ (1957) November 10, 2020 // 0 Comments Hold the Cheddar Bay Biscuits A friend, who is not a cult movie fan, described the title “Attack of the Crab Monsters” [...]
Halloween movie picks October 13, 2020 // 0 Comments In 2020, the biggest horror is something you cannot see. (One guess what I’m talking about.) So my Halloween movie [...]
‘Not of This Earth’ (1957) October 10, 2020 // 0 Comments The eyes have it Half the fun in watching Roger Corman‘s series of shoestring-budget sci-fi films of the 1950s is to [...]