Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Playgirl Killer (1966)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Playgirl Killer (1966)

"Psycho artist can't get his models to hold still, so he kills them." During the first half of Playgirl Killer, the phrase "sensory overload" kept running through my brain. It seemed at times that the film had been made specifically for me! Beautiful print, gorgeous color. Low budget 60's exploitation movie shot in Los…
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More Fathom events…
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More Fathom events…

Fathom is that company that offers one night (concert, movies, opera, theater, etc) programming digitally streamed that theaters can sign on for. Apparently their occasional partnership with (sob!!) TCM is going well, because they have more such stuff planned over the next couple of months. Check the Fathom site to see if any of…
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Monster of the Day #532
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Monster of the Day #532

Invisible Monster Week! We've already had this beastie as a visible monster, but really, you can't go Invisible Week and leave him off. Kudos to the filmmakers, who managed to make the invisible monster nearly as scary as the really, really neat visible ones later. By counter-intuitively using stop-animation for the 'invisible' part, along…
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Apparently I’m not alone…

Just saw this: "More than 400,000 American homes have cut the cord and ditched their cable and satellite pay-TV services since the start of 2012. The figure includes 169,000 subscribers shed by Time Warner Cable last quarter, marking the service provider's tenth consecutive quarter of customer losses. It also includes the 52,000 net subscribers…
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Interesting article on this summer’s movies…

Basically built around the question of which were successful enough to prompt sequels. But there are signs of Hollywood's ongoing structural problems here. As noted in the article, Universal had three successful movies (successful enough to prompt sequels). However, the failure of Battleship* ate up a lot of those profits, just as John Carter…
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Monster of the Day #530
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Monster of the Day #530

For some reason, women's focus groups did not find the new Beauty and the Beast TV show was romantic as the old one.
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