Today’s guest post is from Rick Armstrong, who looks back at the 1982 cult gem Q: The Winged Serpent. A window washer is beheaded. A half-naked sunbather is snatched from a skyscraper’s rooftop. Yes, there’s a giant winged serpent on…
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Today’s guest post focuses on a true sci-fi oddity, 1968’s The Green Slime. Here’s Rick 29’s thoughts on this cheesy and cosmic masterpiece!: What do you do when you learn that a six million ton asteroid is on a collision…
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The title character in Cash McCall does not make an appearance until eighteen minutes into the film. Still, he dominates the opening scenes. Little girls sing about him as they jump rope. Business executives describe him as a “jackal,” a…
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For this week’s Throwback Thursday offering we present this guest post from Rick29 that remembers the scary and sensational feature House of Dark Shadows. The intended audience for MGM’s House of Dark Shadows (1970) was undoubtedly fans of the popular 1966-71…
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The summer’s not quite over yet, and so here’s Rick29 with a recommendation for a classic series that you can watch during these dog days: Most of our summer viewing this year has consisted of movies and TV series —…
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Love in the 1970s: A look at 3 classics from the 1970s. Avanti (1972) directed by Billy Wilder, The Goodbye Girl (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Harold and Maude (1971) directed by Hal Ashby and starring Ruth Gordon
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“B” movie fans remember Hugo Haas? A writer, director, actor, Hass’ movies were know for the Blond Bombshell in distress. His ultimate claim to fame could be a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for “Best Low-Budget Screenplay” for his 1951 film Pickup. Rick29 takes a look at his career.
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What would you do if you were asked to track down a suspected murderer and your quarry was…you? That’s the dandy premise behind The Big Clock, a smart 1948 suspense film sometimes misclassified as a film noir. Ray Milland stars…
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In today’s guest post, Rick29 looks at the 1970s sci-fi favorite Logan’s Run: In the distant future, civilization’s survivors live inside a huge dome controlled by a computer. When the city’s inhabitants reach the age of 30, they are “renewed”…
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When originally released in 1959, Sleeping Beauty was a major critical and financial disappointment for Walt Disney. The film cost a then-hefty $6 million and failed to break even on its original release in the U.S. Critics were unkind, too, calling it…
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