Our Albuquerque Comic Expo profile series continues with the legendary Bernie Wrightson
Famous Monsters Saturday
Jerry Lewis attacked by monsters.
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: WEIRD TALES, PART 4, THE ‘FORTIES We take our final look at WEIRD TALES this month with an over-view of the 1940s. The ’40s bought a boatload of new writers and new artists to the old mag, although some old favorites, like the indefatigable Seabury Quinn, continued to appear. WT was a bimonthly throughout the decade …
Live-Tweet BLACK BELT JONES with us!
In honor of ACE — the Albuquerque Comic Expo, happening June 24-26 at the Albuquerque Convention Center — me and Tanzi are gonna fire up the live-Tweeting apparatus once again, this time with the 1974 classic Black Belt Jones starring Jim Kelly, who will be appearing LIVE at ACE! Black Belt Jones is on Netflix streaming, so if you can, …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
Department of Book Reviews In which I review a lot of books many of you have probably never heard of. I have a plan regarding all this, which will be revealed in due course. In the meantime, I’ll share a few of these reviews as the mood strikes. All will be of a similar format in which I briefly discuss character, setting, …
ACE Guest Profile: Ernie Hudson
The Albuquerque Comic Expo is coming up soon, June 24-26th, and the entire Cheese Magnet gang is excited to be attending. As part of the run up to the festivities we’ll be profiling some of the luminaries on the stellar guest list. First up is Ernie Hudson, best known as Winston Zeddemore from the Ghostbusters films. Of course there’s more …
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 8: “Out of Gas”
We don’t want to leave you drifting — the Big Damn Discussion continues about an episode that is so damn good it’s almost painful as we get to see how everyone ended up aboard Serenity.
5 Actors Who Look Like Living Jack Kirby Drawings
Hint: Jessica Alba is not on this list.
Classic Rock Sunday: AC/DC
This week we take a look at AC/DC with Bon Scott so turn it up!
Famous Monsters Saturday
Torticola vs Frankensberg!
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
Pulp Cover Friday Returns to the Weird! Welcome to Part Three of our WEIRD TALES survey: the late 1930s. The late 1930’s was pretty much like the early 1930’s, but later. Changes, though, were coming to “the magazine that refused to die.” One of the biggest was the death of Robert E. Howard in 1936. A few stories remained in the …
Cool Actor of the Week – Zeljko Ivanek
This week our Cool Actor is a fellow whose name I wasn’t sure how to pronounce until today, despite having been a fan of his work since 1982 when he played the title role in The Sender (a creepy little movie well worth seeking out). I’m sure you’ve seen him in a zillion movies and TV shows. Zeljko Ivanek was …
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 7: “Jaynestown”
Tanzi here. It’s my turn to be psyched about leading off this week’s discussion. Jayne is usually my favorite part of any episode and here he’s finally recognized as the hero he is. As usual, spoilers may slip out in our discussion but we’ll do our best to avoid revealing any surprise plot points. I’m starting to feel a lot …
Drive Angry (2011)
Hell already IS walkin’ the Earth.
Classic Rock Sunday – Humble Pie
I’m playing catch-up this week, so I’m just gonna let you rock out with a band I’ve been listening to a lot lately, Humble Pie. Crank it up and enjoy.