Hello, my name is Gary, and I am a horror movie aficionado. No, scratch that…I am a Monster Kid. In the spectrum of fright film fandom, Monster Kids are Baby Boomers who grew up in the late 1960s and early…
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What’s Your Favorite ’30s/’40s Universal Monster Movie?
Scared Silly: Moviedom’s Goofiest Monsters
Well, it’s that time of year again: the Halloween season, when every movie blog site worth its salt busts out the orange and black and starts cranking out lists of the creepiest, spookiest and most downright frightening films of all time. And…
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Which Fake “Film-Within-a-Film” Would You Most Like to See?
Charles Lane: Such a Mean Old Man
He may be (kind of) smiling here, but from the 1930s to the ’80s actor Charles Lane excelled at playing crabs, curmudgeons and grumps in the movies and on TV. Read about his lenghty career, which included appearances in nine Frank Capra films.
Read more →Do You Ever Root for the Movie’s Bad Guy?
This past weekend one of the premium movie cable channels, in a delightfully mordant move, ran a 24-hour Mother’s Day marathon of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 salute to filial devotion, Psycho. Now, I’ve watched Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and company more times than…
Read more →What Movie Character Team-Ups Would You Like to See?
Don’t bother trying to reach me at work today, I’m out sick. Okay, I’m not really sick; I’m actually holed up at one of the local multiplexes–whichever one has the largest screens–so that I can spend the day continually watching The Avengers…
Read more →Young Joe, The Forgotten Stooge
To say that “Third Stooge” Joe Besser is not held in as high regard as his predecessors Curly and Shemp is an understatement, but how deserved is his reputation? We take a look at the stage, film and TV veteran and his ’50s tenure with the trio.
Read more →What’s the Best 1940s “Best Picture” Winner?
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