Articles by markvoger
Stephanie Stuckey
What’s in a name By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “The challenge I face in taking over the […]
South of the Border
An Interstate 95 classic BLOGGER’S NOTE: Following is my third and final post about my recent trek from New Jersey to Florida. Finally, there was […]
Stuckey’s then and now
Pecan Log Rolls & NRA propaganda Once you bite into a Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll, you never forget it — for better or worse. There […]
Barreling down Interstate 95
Boiled peanuts & Trump-Pence Covid 19 was setting new records everywhere … Donald Trump was loudly contesting the 2020 presidential election … it was an […]
Home for the holidays, not
What? Another shelter-in-place holiday? Talk about “just like the ones I didn’t used to know.” So the theme for my 2020 season movie picks is, […]
‘The Other Side of Madness’ (1971)
Where a studio film dared not go ‘The Other Side of Madness: Limited 50th Anniversary Edition’ The Film Detective $29.95 (Blu-ray) and $23.95 (DVD) 81 […]
‘War of the Satellites’ (1958)
What hath Sputnik wrought? The first thing you must know about “War of the Satellites” is that it was a response to Russia’s launch of […]
‘Day the World Ended’ (1956)
Apocalypse then Was Roger Corman trying to trick moviegoers into thinking this was a sequel or re-release of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? If […]
‘The Brain Eaters’ (1958)
Nelson, VeSota’s big chance Ed Nelson — billed in “The Brain Eaters” as Edwin Nelson — had what it takes to be a leading man […]
‘Attack of the Crab Monsters’ (1957)
Hold the Cheddar Bay Biscuits A friend, who is not a cult movie fan, described the title “Attack of the Crab Monsters” as sounding like […]
Halloween movie picks
In 2020, the biggest horror is something you cannot see. (One guess what I’m talking about.) So my Halloween movie picks this year center on […]
‘Not of This Earth’ (1957)
The eyes have it Half the fun in watching Roger Corman‘s series of shoestring-budget sci-fi films of the 1950s is to spot the ways Corman […]
My Lucy ‘Mame’ story
A childhood anecdote A friendly warning: The following childhood anecdote does not have a big payoff. When “Mame” starring Lucille Ball came out in 1974, […]
‘Svengali’ (1931)
Hamlet, schmamlet By 1931, all that boozing and fornicating were beginning to catch up with John Barrymore, but they had yet to vanquish him. Barrymore […]
Zita Johann (1904-1993)
Star burned brightly, but briefly Recently watching actress Zita Johann in “The Sin of Nora Moran” (1933) — just out on Blu-ray and DVD from […]
‘The Sin of Nora Moran’ (1933)
‘Mummy’ beauty Zita Johann’s daring followup ‘The Sin of Nora Moran’ The Film Detective $24.99 (Blu-ray) and $19.99 (DVD) 65 minutes with 20 minutes of […]
Stones to the rescue
58-year-old band still at it I was a Rolling Stones freak. Why do I say “was?” I still am. My favorite album is still “Exile […]
Weird (Feb. 1969), Part 2
It’s finally in my hands As I write this (on July 21, 2020 at 7:57 AM EST), the Feb. 1969 edition of the horror comic […]
‘Rumpelstiltskin’ (1955)
One depressing kiddie flick When children’s films are also foreign films, it can get weird. Movies like the Mexican “Santa Claus” (1959) and “Little Red […]