PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS A BUNCH OF OTHER GUYS NAMED CAPTAIN “Captain” was a popular sobriquet during the pulp era (though not as popular as it was in the comic book field, where there are seemingly thousands of guys called Captain Something Or Other). This week we’ll take a look at a few of them. None, unfortunately, had a lasting …
Cool Actor of the Week: Franco Nero
Cool Actor of the Week returns with Django himself, the great Franco Nero!
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS A PLUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (OH, AND SOME PULP STUFF) We’ve been sitting on this for months, but now it can finally be told: ‘Game of Thrones’ Author’s Superhero Anthology ‘Wild Cards’ Headed to Big Screen (Exclusive) www.hollywoodreporter.com I don’t want to post the whole thing here because it’s a fairly long article and my name isn’t mentioned, but …
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THE ASTOUNDINGLY BAD ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER It’s not a good sign when you flip over the DVD case of the movie you’re contemplating watching and discover Ed Wood credited as a consultant. Asking Ed Wood to consult on your movie is like asking George W. Bush for help in finishing off your crossword puzzle after you’ve filled in all the easy …
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BONUS PULP COVER FRIDAY: SPECIAL PLUG POST I am (much too slowly) catching up with everything and getting onto a good schedule. Who knows? Someday I may actually get some work done. In the meantime, here’s a site all you Pulp Cover Friday fans should check out. All followers of PCF know that I’ve been focusing on, well pulp covers. …
Classic Rock Sunday: The Damned
If you ask most people what was the first single released by a London punk band you’ll likely hear the Sex Pistols mentioned most often. But in fact the first single to be generally recognized as UK punk is ‘New Rose’ by The Damned. Here they are, in a video that looks like it was shot inside a graffittied phone …
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS SOME SHORT-RUN ZINES FROM THE SIXTIES And the seventies, though that wouldn’t fit in the header. I don’t look as these mags as failures, just as circulation-challenged. I read some of these back in the day. Others I only recently become aware of as an off-shoot in my interest in 1950s ‘zines, but also as part …
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Classic Rock Sunday: Cheap Trick
This week it’s Cheap Trick in the Classic Rock spotlight!
Classic Rock Sunday: The Hollies
This week’s Classic Rock act is The Hollies, featuring all live performance clips. No lip synching allowed!
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS FILM FUN! (With a big tip of the hat to Cheese Magnet stalwart Joe, who suggested this title.) As part of our eternal quest to bring you the best and the oddest in pulp art, we present something entirely different: a non-fiction pulp magazine. FILM FUN ran from 7-15 to 9-42 under that title, but it …
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IT CONQUERED THE WORLD Okay, not really. It was stopped by a squad of soldiers (who beforehand were the movie’s comic relief) and a mad scientist (and by mad I mean angry) with a blowtorch the size of a water pistol. But It tried. This film gets a lot of disrespect, and, yes, some of it is deserved, but there’s some …
Cool Actor of the Week: Eli Wallach
It’s Eli Wallach’s turn in the spotlight as Tanzi bring us this week’s Cool Actor!
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JUST YOUR AVERAGE SF-VAMPIRE-SINGING VAQUERO MOVIE Blame this one on Scott Phillips (make sure you get the right one). Sometime earlier this year he put some stills from SHIP OF MONSTERS (1960) on his fb page, and I was immediately hooked. I had to see this crazy-looking Mexican horror film, but no matter how diligently I searched the intertubes, all I …
Classic Rock Sunday: The First Rock and Roll
This week we try to identify the first true rock and roll song