Yes, I must confess, I collect movie stills where actors are screaming or trembling with fear. They always make me laugh. Those freeze-frame publicity shots of mock fright and terror. There’s something so ludicrous and wonderful about them. I have…
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Turner Classic Movies this month is scheduling each day with an all-day tribute to a different star. On August 4ththey are devoting the day to Ruth Roman, the husky-voiced, sexy, character actress who was always better than most of the…
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If ever there was a movie “as gay as a picnic basket” (as Sophia referred to Blanche’s brother on Golden Girls) it’s the bonkers 1943 Technicolor musical The Gang’s All Here. This might have been just another wartime musical confection…
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I remember being with my mother at the Palace Theater in Norwich, Connecticut when I was a young lad, watching musclebound Mike Henry in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold and she leaned in to me half-way through and asked…
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Robert Louis Stevenson knew plenty about doctors and medicine- he wrote most of his 1886 classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in bed, coughing up blood. After reading the book in seventh grade, I would retire to my…
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M– is for the monstrous way she treats us. O– means that she can be just obscene. T– is for the torment that she causes. H– is for the hatred she receives. E– is for the eyepatch she wears smiling.…
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Though he’s best known for playing George McFly in the megahit Back to The Future, it’s Crispin Hellion Glover’s more offbeat roles that have earned him a special place in my dark heart. I love his weirder characters- like the…
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This gloriously bonkers low budget 1980s action film was rescued from the trashcan of memory by the good people at Vinegar Syndrome and is being released in select theaters across the country and in a beautiful 2-disc Blu-ray. The story…
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I’ve always held dear to my heart films by directors I love that are thought to be lesser works, or simply aren’t as well-known. I find myself desperately trying to turn friends onto them and writing about them endlessly. When…
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My idea of hell is being ball-gagged and strapped to a chair while a gaggle of obnoxious children in choir robes scream The 12 Days of Christmas in my face. Even my mother would bristle with fury when that tune came on…
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