The was only the duo’s fourth film, made during their early box office peak. While they also made a few very fun comic murder mysteries (A&C Meet the Killer Boris Karloff and… Read Article →

This was made over a decade after Spooks on the Loose, and the ‘boys’ were showing their age. Still, that poster would have gotten my quarter back in the day.

A spin-off from the serious social drama Dead End, the East Side Kids lead by Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, appeared in half a dozen other major films, including Angels with Dirty… Read Article →

At least she doesn’t have haunts in her pants.

Spin-offs have been happening for a long time. Harold Gildersleeve was a character on the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly (the one with the avalanche-prone closet) who got his own radio… Read Article →

A few years ago at B-Fest, in the middle of the night we were weirdly confronted with the Mickey Rooney picture Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary. GalaxyJane and I exchanged puzzled looks, but… Read Article →

I really wonder at the economics of these figures. There seem to be literally thousands of them. How much are the license fees? How many of each figure do they have to… Read Article →

Halloween is over, but this feels similar enough in tone not to be jarring. I hope everyone had a happy holiday.

Am I the only one getting kind of a mixed message here?