Happy Election Day, everyone. I’m on my way to the polling place now (I hope you’re doing or have done the same), but I’d like to take just a moment to suggest that–once you’ve fulfilled your Constitutional privilege–you might consider…
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What’s Your Favorite Powell and Pressburger Film?
During a collaborative heyday that spanned the 1940s into the early 1950s, British director Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Hungarian-born screenwriter Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988)–or, as per their production company stamp, “The Archers”–crafted A Matter of Life and Death (A.K.A Stairway to…
Read more →Creepy Crawlers: Cinema’s Scariest Babies
Let’s face it: for all their cuteness, babies can sometimes be a bit unsettling. I mean, they’re like tiny people who are always wanting something, and every once in a while you get the feeling there’s something going on behind…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Liam Neeson Action Movie?
Some 16 years ago, enraptured moviegoers watched as ex-CIA Bryan Mills gave a spare but chilling warning over the phone to the sex traffickers that just abducted his teenage daughter: “…[W]hat I do have are a very particular set of…
Read more →Mitzi Gaynor: ’50s Musicals’ “Razzle Dazzle” Gal
She was one of the last living links to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals, and with her passing last week at the age of 93, singer/dancer/actress Mitzi Gaynor leaves behind a memorable body of work in both movies and…
Read more →King of the Jungle, Man of Bronze: Remembering Ron Ely
To classic movie fans, the first name that comes to mind when someone mentions Tarzan is, of course, Johnny Weissmuller. For many of us born in the second half of the “Baby Boom,” though, there’s a place in our collective…
Read more →Scared Silly Part 2: More of Moviedom’s Goofiest Monsters
Many, many moons ago (October of 2012, to be precise), I wrote an article for this very site listing 12 of the oddest, shoddiest, and least frightening menaces to ever grace the silver screen. From disembodied heads in lab pans…
Read more →Check Out These Demanded New Fright Flicks—If You Dare
We’re deep into October, and you know what that means, beyond pumpkin spice-flavored everything—horror movies wherever you turn. Right now, we’ll turn your attention to a trio of the more buzzed-about fear cinema finds coming our way, which didn’t skimp…
Read more →Omnia Cafeteria Rex: The Tragicomic Duo of Clark and McCullough
The western Ohio town of Springfield has received a good deal of unwanted publicity over the past couple of months. Something a lot of folks are not aware of is that the city was the birthplace/hometown of two notable early…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Horror Franchise of the 2020s?
In the fall of ’22, Smile opened in the U.S.—and as writer-director Parker Finn’s unheralded horror flick proceeded to gross $200 million above its $17 million budget, there was probably no shortage of grins breaking out at Paramount’s front offices….
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