[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… Read Article →
This scene is quite paneful.
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… Read Article →
I briefly considered making a joke about the “Rolling Bones.” I have never come closer to just shuttering the site.
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.]
“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… Read Article →
Who’s a good boy!
“Exxxcellent.”
Following his cameo appearance in Irwin Allen’s craptastic The Story of Mankind (1957)—one of dozens of that movie’s ‘star’ turns—Peter Lorre became part of Allen’s stock company. We already examined Lorre’s negligible… Read Article →
Time to party down this week.