Good memories…

I rewatched John Carpenter’s “The Thing” the other night and it brought back some good memories that I thought I’d share with you, the gentle reader.

You see, back in 1982 when I was a wee lad, my father dropped off my brother and I at the local cineplex theater in order to see […]

March 11th, 2009

Have you seen this movie?

When I was living with my dad in Mpls back in the early 90’s we used to rent crappy videos from the local drugstore. (Yes, renting VHS tapes…man do I feel old). Anyway, I remember we came across this ‘bottom rack’ video that had a really murky cover and I think the title was “Things”. […]

March 9th, 2009

Monster Shack and the Money Pit

For a while now our community has been planning to dig up and replace our neighborhood’s water lines. Uh, good. Right? So today they finally get out to our part of the ‘hood and we find out that there’s going to be about $4000 worth of digging that we’ll have to pay for out of […]

March 6th, 2009

Alien director’s cut

I stumbled across a cheap Alien Quadrology boxed set while killing some time in a bookstore the other day. Very bare bones, but it does include the director’s cut versions of the movies, and what the heck, any movie fan worthy of their salt needs to have the Alien collection on their shelf. (At least […]

March 2nd, 2009

Anthony Cardoza interview

In case anybody is interested, here is a link to an old Anthony Cardoza interview.

In case you don’t know who he is, Cardoza was one of the brains in Coleman Francis’ think tank and appeared in all of his movies as well. It’s an interesting conversation if you’re into bad movies, and, since you’re […]

February 25th, 2009

Public domain newsreels

I don’t remember who it was that pointed me to this site, but it has tons, repeat tons of classic newsreels:

Prelinger Archives

Whoever you were that sent me this link so, so long ago, I salute you!

By the way, if you can find it, there is a Russian newsreel where they managed to […]

February 23rd, 2009

Mr. B.I.G.

I started a review of “Empire of the Ants” the other day (no promises when it will be done) and as much crap as I’ve given Bert I. Gordon on this site, you gotta hand it to the guy, he’s alive and kicking at age 80+, and still out there producing movies. So I thought […]

February 23rd, 2009

New Review posted: Mission To Mars (2000)

Thanks again to Sean for submitting a guest review…I just might have to double this guy’s salary some day…

Enjoy Mission To Mars!

February 16th, 2009