PULP COVER FRIDAY BIDS A FOND FAREWELL TO NIPPY, BULL, AND G (BY NOW WE ARE ON A FIRST NAME BASIS) Not much more to say, except a few brief notes. They finally get around to ringing in the Yellow Peril by 1938. Less animals, more guys with axes and/or intricate death machines. Finally, it just struck me as I …
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BIKINI VAMPIRE BABES An independent film shot entirely in Oklahoma (which, really, should have been emblazoned on the DVD box; excellent selling point), directed, produced, and co-written by Ted West, is worthwhile viewing, as long as you understand what it’s not. It’s not a horror film, so don’t expect gallons of blood and a cast of creeped-out characters dripping with …
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Harryhausen’s Horror from Venus!
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS MORE AERIAL-DYNAMICS Robert Hogan proved to be a fairly elusive fellow. I didn’t devote thesis-quality research to this, but tooling around the internet didn’t reveal a whole lot of info on him. My God, he’s not even in wikipedia! A few salient facts as they relate to G-8, though. Hogan enlisted in the Air Service in …
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BOOK ALERT! So, finally got the new printer-copier-scanner-fax-teleporter combo (just kidding about that last part — should be in next year’s model). Never in my life have I named an inanimate object, but I’m thinking of calling it Darth Vader because it’s all shiny black plastic and its lid has a curvature reminiscent of Vader’s own. Though, glancing over at …
Cool Actor of the Week: William Zabka
This week’s Cool Actor is William Zabka, the greatest bully of the ’80s!
Action Guy #001: “What/who is Frazetta?”
OK, kids. I wasn’t going to start with this. And then a friend on Facebook asked a question that rocked my world: “What/who is Frazetta?” Who is Frazetta? You – you might as well ask, “Who is Superman?” Who is Frazetta? Consider Exhibit A, O my children: Now check out Exhibit B:
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The Mummy’s Ghost!
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS AIRPLANES! AND WEREWOLVES! Here’s a genre I don’t believe we’ve even touched on before: the pulps dedicated to aviation. There were a ton of them. A lot more than I ever suspected before I started researching this column. Most have “Air,” “Aces,” or “Flying” in their titles. The earliest one I’ve been able to find is …
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FACE-OFF (SORT OF): PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1950) vs. PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1967) You’d think two movies called PREHISTORIC WOMEN would be a natural for a face-off style review, right? So did I, until I actually sat down to write this, and realized that while you can compare certain aspects of these films, you can’t measure the comparisons quantitatively, because these are both …
Cool Actor of the Week: Curtis Armstrong
“There are no small parts, only small actors” – Constantin Stanislavski Some of our favorite Cool Actors are the character actors, the men and women who weren’t blessed with physical beauty but still had the desire to act and the talent to make a career of it. The great thing about acting is even the smallest role can be the …
Piero Umiliani – the Mah Na Mah Na man
You don’t know his name but I guarantee you’ve heard at least one of his songs. Who is Piero Umiliani?
Classic Rock Sunday: Rachel Sweet
This week we look at the little girl with the big voice, Rachel Sweet
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Spider Island!
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PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES ACROSS THE POND I’m still awaiting a new scanner so I can share some of the stuff I picked up at World Con, including some notices for new books that you might be interested in. In the meantime, I thought I’d try for something different this time around, and while the result is admittedly mixed, it’s …