Posts by Ken Begg

This guy as "Dr. Nadir" was an absolute hoot, leering at the bikini girls that Mars was stealing (a weirdly popular plot in the '60s) and yelling with relish for their space ray to be fired at "MAXIMUM...POWER!!!" If you think of John Lovitz playing in full Master Thespian mode, you'd be about 98%…

Things went swimmingly at T-Fest this year, with hiccups only appearing at the end of the evening. Thunder of the Gigantic Serpent (which I'm sure I've featured here before) starting things off and was delightful. Then it was on to Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, one of those films that while modest, if far…

Sorry about last week, as you may have heard, Chicago had a minor sports thing going on. The result was a rally that drew the largest gathering of people in US history. Crazy. I've finally caught up on sleep (and seen Dr Strange, which was pretty good--14 movies for Marvel without a clunker, which…

Since Thundarr was on a network (unlike, for example, He-Man), he couldn't have an actual bladed weapon. So he got the fabulous Sun Sword, which even little kiddies knew was a light saber knock-off. Still, it's always good to have a signature weapon. Not that he was ever allowed to kill anything with it.…

I was really pleased to see how well this show held up. It certainly isn't as sophisticated as some of today's stuff, but was patently a labor of love for many of those who worked on it.

Yeah, baby, the World Series comes to Wrigley Field!

Take that, "Deathklok". (Sorry about the lack of image on the front page, I can't access Imgur at the moment, and it's time to go to work.)

When your special effects budget extends to digging out that old Freakies cereal toy from the junk drawer.

Now *that's* combination skin.