In Abott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, the popular comedy serve up scares and laughs (mostly the former). Universal tossed their most popular fiends ─ Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein’s monster ─ at their top comedy team for this slapstick…
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What Movie-Related Pop Song from the First Half of the 1980s Is Your Favorite?
The 1980s were a golden age for pop soundtracks. This week’s poll let’s you sound off about your favorite movie songs from the first half of the decade!
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Day of the Dead
You know the drill. Below is a picture from Day of the Dead with Chris’ caption. You can leave your own goofy captions in the comments section below. (And since Halloween will soon be upon us, the rest of October’s…
Read more →Open Thread: What Are Your Five Favorite Horror Films?
Chances are pretty good that you’ll be hunkered down in front of a horror film at some point this weekend. So for this week’s Open Thread, I wanted to hear what your Top Five horror films are. I’ll start: 5…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: Night of the Living Dead
Arguably the most influential fright flick ever made, Night of the Living Dead is a true masterpiece. Director/cowriter George Romero‘s gruesome and groundbreaking cult classic pioneered the zombie genre of horror movies and spawned a host of sequels, remakes, and…
Read more →The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Revisiting Cult Movies
With the coming remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one wonders how today’s attitudes about sex and sexuality won’t completely kill all of the charm and fun that made the original great. In 1970s’ cult films, attitudes seemed to…
Read more →Julie Andrews And How Movie Music Shapes Our Lives
For some inexplicable reason, today, I decided to find the name of, or the movie it came from, of a song that has haunted me for several years. I knew some of the words, most of the melody, and that…
Read more →Independence Day: Resurgence and Other DVD & Blu-ray New Releases
We are at the point in the year where the major studios rush their summer releases to DVD and Blu-ray just in time for the holiday shopping season to begin. Thus, this week’s titles are dominated by films that reached…
Read more →Woody Allen’s “Café Society” Drifts into Another Time & Place
Woody Allen’s 2016 film Café Society invites you to enjoy a warm fantasy of 1930s’ Hollywood and New York. Ostensibly, you’re there to follow the life and loves of a young New Yorker named Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) searching for his…
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