‘Hercules and the Captive Women’ April 10, 2021 // 0 Comments Nice knockers (on the hero) ‘Hercules and the Captive Women’ (1963) The Film Detective $24.95 (Blu-ray), $19.95 (DVD) 95 [...]
Thank you, A-Yeon April 8, 2021 // 0 Comments My 2021 pandemic escape By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “Ah, I see the [...]
John Facenda (1913-84) March 25, 2021 // 0 Comments Philly icon’s movie-star turn I recently did a deep dive into Paul Wendkos’ riveting 1957 noir “The [...]
Planters Peanuts store March 22, 2021 // 0 Comments This place was nuts I recently wrote about an engrossing noir from 1957, Paul Wendkos‘ “The Burglar” [...]
‘The Burglar’ (1957) March 22, 2021 // 0 Comments The movie that made me love Dan Duryea The independently produced noir masterpiece “The Burglar” could not have been [...]
‘Beach Girls and the Monster’ (1965) March 18, 2021 // 0 Comments AIP laughs at this movie This movie is terrible, terrible, terrible. It’s also awesome, awesome, awesome. Jon [...]
Belmar Restaurant Tour 2021 March 15, 2021 // 0 Comments The tour that never was Why would you spend five hours of a cold winter’s day walking? To eat! The Belmar Restaurant [...]
Alex Harvey (1935-82) March 12, 2021 // 0 Comments One-of-a-kind rocker There’s so much history, it’s staggering. I’ve been doing a deep dive into the life [...]
‘Vambo’ (1974) March 9, 2021 // 0 Comments A rock ‘n’ roll memory It was 1974, and my buddy Joe Stew and I really, really, really wanted to be rock stars. [...]
Women’s History Month March 7, 2021 // 0 Comments Based on a true story Movies based on the lives of real people aren’t documentaries, but they can get the conversation [...]
‘The Crimson Ghost’ (1946) March 4, 2021 // 0 Comments Coolest. Villain. Ever. Fans of the Misfits will take one look at “The Crimson Ghost” serial and say, [...]
‘Blood of the Vampire’ (1958) February 28, 2021 // 0 Comments Hammer, this ain’t I’d been warned that “Blood of the Vampire” is little more than a faux-Hammer [...]
‘Spider Baby’ (1967) February 28, 2021 // 0 Comments Lon Jr.’s finest performance Through the years, your perspective changes. In the ’80s, when I first saw Jack [...]
‘It Conquered the World’ (1956) February 15, 2021 // 0 Comments Attack of the cucumber! Roger Corman was workin’ the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” vibe here. [...]
‘Invisible Invaders’ (1959) February 15, 2021 // 0 Comments Romero was taking notes Edward L. Cahn‘s hokey, disjointed horror/sci-fi hybrid is one of those “People of [...]
‘Electric Ballroom’ (Dec. 20, 2020) January 29, 2021 // 0 Comments Masked up for merriment Hey, I was on the Dec. 20, 2020 episode of “The Electric Ballroom,” 95.9 WRAT’s [...]
Film noir January 27, 2021 // 0 Comments Explore genre’s dark allure Stressed out over Covid-triggered cabin fever? Make it better, or worse, by watching some [...]
‘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 [...]