Month: May 2026

Greeeeeen Acres is the place to be!1964's Monster of the Opera. This one was on me. I watched the first ten minutes, and it was a delirious delight. Sadly, I stopped watching right before it got boring, the normal Italian format of endless dance numbers and people slooooowly walking through hallways / tunnels with…

We opened the films with the Shaw Brothers classic Come Drink with Me. Then Sandy showed the quite wacky silent film Seven Footprints to Satan (1929). Next was Jabootu subject Orca. The photo here is misleading, though. The real monster is...Man.

And so the Fest officially started. Mike H was hot to trot to show a Kamen Rider episode, and we soon saw why. The villain that week was Starfish-Hitler, and as you can see, it's exactly what you think. Gobsmacking.

It's undoubtedly a sign of imminent senility, but each Fest it's more likely that, when perusing the absolutely essential roster of What We Watched assembled by Chad R., that I see a title or two and think, "What the hell is that?" This year it was The Dead Don't Talk, and it took several…

OK, so I flew into Dallas -- no flight delays, yay! -- and got picked up at DFW by Chad R. He took me to LJS for dinner (postponed from my previous trip when my flight was delayed 11 hours) and then we headed to Chez Petersen. As noted before, Sandy and Wendy have…

Or at least it's playing at 4:00 PM all week at my local AMC theater. I already have my ticket for Friday. Even better, as it's playing under their "fan faves" banner, the ticket was half the price of a regular ticket. Sweet. Anyway, here's your chance to see the film again--or for the…