Year: 2023

Glenn Manning: The most relatable giant monster ever. The Amazing Colossal Man, the third Bert I Gordon movie to be released in 1957 (followed by three more in 1958), represents a, well, colossal leap forward quality-wise when compared to his earlier efforts King Dinosaur, The Cyclops and Beginning of the End. It’s certainly not…

Oops, posted this early. Oh, well. Bert I Gordon immediately followed up Beginning of the End with The Cyclops, which in retrospect looks like a run up for both The Amazing Colossal Man and, even more so, it's sequel. He also continued to work with solid, if often down on their luck, name actors…

For whatever reason (hopefully Tom Weaver or somebody had done a really good in-depth interview with Mr. Gordon), Bert I Gordon took a year or two off after releasing King Dinosaur. Maybe he just learned a bunch of lessons, as I don’t think he ever made anything quite that silly again. Which, admittedly, left…

Bert I Gordon (aka Mr. BIG) worked the giant monster genre like few others. Although some of his films have their good qualities, the fact is that many of them are poorly written and with substandard special effects. That said, and this must always be acknowledged, making films, especially back in the day and…

During the week I was laid low with bronchitis (I'll still have it for a while, but my energy levels are improving), two of the very last stalwarts of '50s monster movie cinema, Ricou Browning and Bert I. Gordon, passed away. Truly a bitter week for fans. Ricou Browning was one of two men--Ben…

As B-Fest 2023 entered the home stretch, monsters became sparse on the ground. Again, if I had one very minor issue with the line-up, its that they bunched types of movies together rather than splitting them up. So we got the kiddie adventure movie Space Camp, the Walter Hill musical action flick Streets of…