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Monster of the Day #529
Boy, get rid of the silverfish and then this happens.
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Monster of the Day #528
This made less domestically than that awful remake of When a Stranger Calls, and that was following the Spider-Man movies. I don't get it.
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Tuesdays with Lorre: My Favorite Brunette (1947)
[Note the highly misleading poster art. Hope never wears anything like he is pictured here, and Dorothy Lamour certainly never appears in a bathing suit. And I seriously have no friggin' idea what those other ladies are supposed to represent.] Bob Hope was, save for W. C. Fields, the greatest solo film comic of…
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Who Watches The Watch?
The opening paragraph of the Chicago Tribune review of this film mentions the awkwardness of releasing a film about a neighborhood watch following the Trayvon Martin shooting. "Timing is everything," Michael Phillips wrote. (He then ties in the Aurora shooting in the third paragraph. Review the film, ass. You're not a sociologist, you're a…
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Monster of the Day #526
I briefly considered making a joke about the "Rolling Bones." I have never come closer to just shuttering the site.
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Monster of the Day #525
Is this why I've always wanted a fez and smocking jacket?* Maybe. [*Seriously, I have. However, good smoking jackets cost way too much dough.]
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Deadly Mantis (1957)
"Universal International unleashes another mammoth insect upon 1950's America. Peter Gunn is on hand to handle the situation." The 1950's were, in almost every way, the zenith of American pop culture. You'd be hard pressed to find a time in which a better aesthetic and audible quality of entertainment existed. Certainly, monster movies were…
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