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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So many have asked me, “What is it like to be a film critic?” Well, actually the only person that ever asked me was a nine-year-old boy who is mentally challenged, but it’s a good question, and after reviewing movies…
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Some say that spring is a time for love. Frankly I’m more inclined to agree with whoever said love is a form of mental illness. Love doesn’t mean “never having to say you’re sorry”. It means having to say you’re…
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Suspiria (Synapse) The scariest and loudest horror movie about witchcraft ever made, by Italian maestro of menace Dario Argento (Deep Red). Jessica Harper stars as Suzy Bannion, an American girl, who arrives at a famed Tanz Akademie of dance in…
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