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Considering the current furor over the Confederate battle flag, African-American church burnings occurring across the south, a possible resurgence of Klan groups and other ongoing problems across America, I was reminded of this series of shows and thought perhaps it might be apropos to take a quick read more

Really, after the past few years, Warner Brothers should have known that anything that they show at ComicCon is going to wind up on the internet almost before it’s finished showing there. That’s why it’s hard to take seriously their claims and protests that they were “forced& read more

In celebration of Jurassic World which is out and I’m sure heating up the multiplexes and will make somewhere around $241,549,387,320,148,824 this weekend before you even account for the overseas box office totals, I offer you this early stop motion dinosaur adventure. The Lost World was produ read more

The internet is a rabbit hole. We all know that. You start off looking for/at one thing, and before you know it, you’re in a completely different place altogether. Here’s how one recent trip down the hole went for me: 1) I was looking at recent movie news and noticed that Hulk Hogan said read more

In 1955, NBC produced their live version of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin which is probably the best known of the television movie musicals from that period, but it is far from the only one. As a matter of fact, there were quite a few musicals which were produced for TV during that period, some of read more

I’ve said it before: Gene Hackman is one of those actors who truly deserve more credit than they are usually given, and whose presence in a movie is usually enough to cause me to at least give it a chance. It’s certainly the sight of his name in the credits that caused me to give 1975 read more

Okay, gang, it’s Saturday again, and time for another installment of Saturday Breakfast Serial and our ongoing chapter play, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. And, for those of you who may be just joining us, here are the previous posts for this serial: 1, 2, 3, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Ah, read more

A quick hit of Google shows the word “farce” defined as “a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations”, and I can think of no more apt description of 1965’s What’s New Pus read more

This probably could just as well have been a Facebook post, but I just wanted to take a moment to note that over on his blog Michael Geist has been posting some really good articles about the recent announcement that the latest Canadian budget reforms also include an extension to the Copyright laws read more

Husband and wife detective teams have long been a staple of the genre, and while Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man fame are perhaps the most well known example, they are far from the only couple to show up on the small screen to solve cases together. A perfect example of this is the couple that read more

Okay, gang, it’s Saturday again, and time for another installment of Saturday Breakfast Serial and our ongoing chapter play, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. And, for those of you who may be just joining us, here are the previous posts for this serial: 1, 2, 3, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Since we miss read more

The problem with Norman Jewison‘s 1984 film A Soldier’s Story is that while it tries very hard to be a movie with a message, and while it works for the most part on that level, it forgets one of the most basic characteristics of  film making: In order to truly succeed, a film has to be read more

Last time we looked at the classic panel game What’s My Line, and in the featured episode the “mystery guest” was Soupy Sales, so I thought this week we’d take a look at Mr. Pie-in-in-the-Face himself, Soupy Sales. Born Milton Supman, “Soupy” is actually taken fro read more

It’s been a huge week or so for trailer leaks and releases, and I’ve already featured a couple of them here, but I thought I’d just do a quick roundup of some of the others that have come out recently with a few short comments on each, so here we go. First up, it’s the new tr read more

I’ve always found What’s My Line? to be a slightly odd show, with it’s combination of formality and lightheartedness, always walking that fine line of being ostensibly a game show but one that was more about being entertaining rather than winning, especially for the regular panelis read more

Okay, gang, it’s Saturday again, and time for another installment of Saturday Breakfast Serial and our ongoing chapter play, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. And, for those of you who may be just joining us, here are the previous posts for this serial: 1, 2, 3, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Last week we bega read more

One thing that made the late-1950s/early 1960s science-fiction anthology series One Step Beyond different from its contemporaries such as The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits is that it actually purported to be science-fact. Hosted and in large part directed by John Newland, the series presented do read more

Okay, gang, it’s Saturday again, and time for another installment of Saturday Breakfast Serial and our ongoing chapter play, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. And, for those of you who may be just joining us, here are the previous posts for this serial: 1, 2, 3, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Last week we finished read more

I’d originally planned to feature an episode of The Outer Limits this week, but that’s going to have to wait until next time, as we instead turn our focus to a more recent classic show. Here’s what happened: A couple of days ago, while I was talking to my fourteen year old daughter read more

Okay, gang, it’s Saturday again, and time for another installment of Saturday Breakfast Serial and our ongoing chapter play, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. And, for those of you who may be just joining us, here are the previous posts for this serial: 1, 2, 3, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8. Last week we finished up read more