Up until a few days ago, I didn’t know that a Bitch Slap movie existed. I’d been watching some video’s on YouTube of commentator and podcaster, John Campea. I latched onto his YouTube broadcast a couple of weeks ago strictly by accident when it popped up with his commentary regarding the Scarlett Johansson/Disney mess. Some […]
In a review I once wrote regarding a Bob Hope film, The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), I reminisced about the olden days of yore, when the peasants were relegated to choosing between three whole (yes, count them, THREE!) TV channels, if they were lucky enough to live in a major metropolitan area. Or at least within […]
I know that when Two on a Guillotine was released, they had some scary ads on television to entice young impressionable minds to head to the local cinema and get the crap scared out of them. Afterwards you could go home, hide under the blankets, and have nightmares for the rest of your adolescent and […]
For fifty weeks of the year, Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a small corner of tropical heaven, basking contentedly in the warm sun. During the other two weeks, as colleges all over the country discharge their students for Easter vacation, a change comes over the scene. The students swarm to these peaceful shores in droves, twenty […]
War of the Worlds (1953) has been one of my favorite Science Fiction films for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure when was the last time that I watched it. But what can one expect when you have literally a few thousand movies at your disposal on DVD/Blu-ray? Sometimes it takes a […]
Way way back when I first reviewed 13 Frightened Girls, I watched it with my youngest son, Joshua and hoped to cajole him into offering up his perspective. A much younger viewpoint to balance out the critique or to prove you didn’t have to be the ancient mariner to enjoy movies made before the year […]
As you get older, the further back in your childhood that you go, the more your memories become a bit cloudy. Let’s take today’s movie, 13 Frightened Girls as an example. I believe that the first time I saw William Castle’s 13 Frightened Girls was at a drive-in movie with the family. When we were […]