What Movies Await On Mars …. Pennsylvania?
June of every year brings what has become a semi-regular road trip for me over the past twenty odd years. I’m off to the Monster Bash in Mars, Pennsylvania for […]
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Like plenty of sequels, this Clint and Clyde follow up to Every Which Way But Loose has most of the old gang dropping in yet doesn’t quite measure up to […]
Westerns and Cowboy Stars of The 60 Minute Variety … Part 1
I’ve repeatedly pointed out when pressed that if I could only have one genre to watch and enjoy for the rest of my days, I’d take the western. Yes it’s […]
Guilty By Suspicion (1991)
Looking for a rare Robert De Niro – Martin Scorsese movie? This just might be the one that has passed you by. Still there’s a catch to that statement. In […]
The Street Fighter (1974)
It’s been a long time coming but a couple of recent finds have set me on the path to finally watching this Sonny Chiba standard. First off I acquired the […]
Quick, Let’s Get Married (1964) aka The Confession
It had been twenty years since Oscar winners Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland had shared the screen together by the time they reunited in this ultra low budget affair that […]
Wanted : Jane Turner (1936)
There isn’t a year go by I don’t sit in on some sixty odd minute black and white “B” flick meant for the bottom half of a double bill that […]
Savage Island (1985)
To be honest I thought this type of exploitation filmmaking went out with low budget specialist Jerry Warren or maybe even Roger Corman. By that I mean the days when […]
The Quiet Man (1952)
I guess John Ford’s The Quiet Man proves that I’m just a romantic at heart. I mean the whole world knows that John Wayne is a cowboy, a man’s man, […]
Hong Kong (1952)
According to our leading man Ronald Reagan’s voice over at the start of this Lewis R. Foster directed production, Hong Kong is “Where everybody’s running away from something. Including me.” […]
Messenger of Death (1988)
“Someday I’d like a part where I can lean my elbow against a mantlepiece and have a cocktail.” That quote credited to legendary tough guy Charles Bronson has always been […]
Reconstructing 1966’s The Blue Max
For me The Blue Max represents one of those big scale war films that would play repeatedly on late night television back before we had the VHS tape at our […]
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
aka … Night of the Dark Full Moon … aka Deathouse … ( that’s the name on the print I located and not what I’d call perfect grammar) Years before […]
Hoodlum Empire (1952)
Directed by Joseph Kane for Herbert J. Yates’ Republic Pictures, this black and white crime drama features a large canvas of characters who all converge in the present and a […]
Remembering Doris Day
A heavy heart today. It’s while at my office earlier today that I overheard the radio playing Que Sera Sera in the showroom where I’m employed. My heart skipped a […]
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
There is no denying the fact that Gene Tierney looks stunning in technicolor. She’s just that in this Jacques Tourneur film under the 20th Century Fox banner that sees the […]
