Personally, I’ve never been to Florida. While I am partial to their orange juice- preferably mixed with a liter of vodka and ice cubes- these days the panhandle has little to offer celluloid sickos like me. That wasn’t always the…
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I can’t believe I got up on a crummy, cloudy Friday morning and stood in line for tickets to the 9AM 3D screening of Avengers: Infinity War. What am I, ten years old? I was just too damn curious about…
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Reboots of older TV series seem to be the rage now. Some like Will & Grace and Roseanne have been surprisingly successful. Others like The X-Files not so much. Lost In Space, now streaming on Netflix, is a big leap…
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About the only LPs I’ve saved are those disastrously bad personality platters like A Dramatic Reading With Music (MGM), Sebastian Cabot’s 1967 hilariously pompous interpretations of Bob Dylan songs. Then there’s Way Out West (Tower), Mae West’s campy rock ‘n’…
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The history of cinema is replete with movie gimmicks. Look at A Quiet Place, which terrifies audience with barely any dialogue. But I love the more ambitious crackpot ones like Smell-o-vision, developed by Liz Taylor’s stepson Mike Todd Jr. for…
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I don’t know about you, but I know where I’m heading this summer: Celebrity Surgery Land! Have you ever wondered what plastic surgeons do with all the skin and fat they’ve Hoovered out of your favorite television and movie stars?…
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Not having been raised Catholic my only exposure to nuns was in the movies, and these were primarily feel-good stories- Audrey Hepburn in The Nun’s Story, Debbie Reynolds in The Singing Nun, Ingrid Bergman in The Bells Of St. Mary’s,…
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I love collecting movie related postage stamps. James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, Al Jolson. The new Lena Horne “Forever” stamp is just sublime. The 1997 release of stamps of famous Hollywood monsters was just sensational. It was such a joy putting…
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I’ve always been partial to graveyards. Growing up, when I wasn’t at the movies, I was traipsing through bone orchards. I never got into grave rubbings. Instead I liked to create histories of the people that were planted there. There’s…
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Discussing his role as the crafty cannibal in Hannibal, actor Anthony Hopkins remarked: “I think all actors are good at expressing that dark, shadowy center.” True, many thespians have tried to broaden their range by playing maniacs but some were…
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