Hey folks, ScottP starting off the Big Damn Discussion this time. We’re late again and the blame is entirely mine; I do have the excuse of being under deadline on a writing project but there were opportunities to start this post and I didn’t take them. One reason for this is something I mentioned in the last installment of the …
Cool Actor of the Week: Michael Berryman
This week we look at one of the most iconic faces in Horror Films: the great Michael Berryman!
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Ain’t he unglamo-rays?
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Cheese Magnet takes a look at the history of exploitation moves in the Phillipines with Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Classic Rock Sunday: Ted Nugent
This week Cheese Magnet rocks out with the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent!
Famous Monsters Saturday
Monsters and Their Girl-Fiends!
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY: SPECIAL THURSDAY EDITION Recently back from World Con in Reno, and Bubonicon is rushing up at me already. No need for me to repeat the info that fellow Cheese Magneteer Scott Phillips has already supplied. Suffice it to say that I hope I’ll see manyof you over the weekend. We had a good time at World Con. The …
Cheese Magnet at Bubonicon!
Bubonicon 43 happens this weekend (August 26-28) in Albuquerque, NM, and a bunch of Cheese Magneteers will be on hand for the festivities. Aside from finding us roaming the halls (or hanging out with the Star Trek fans, who mix a mean girl-drink), we’ll be doing a panel Friday night at 9:30 called “For the Love of Cheese.” The panel …
Cool Actor of the Week: Burton Gilliam
This week we look at Burton Gilliam, the cheerfully racist cowboy from Blazing Saddles.
Classic Rock Sunday: Scott Walker
Rock and roll is a tough business for an introvert. The adulation of the fans, the pressures of the industry execs and the expectations of your band mates can be overwhelming for even the most egotistical and self-centered front men. This is a world where guys like David Lee Roth and Freddie Mercury thrive, the larger than life personalities who …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS THE FATHER OF MODERN SPACE ART We’re getting a little off topic here, since Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) never worked for an actual pulp magazine. But why quibble? He was, according to wikipedia, the Father of Modern Space Art. He made his bones working for LIFE magazine, and with people like Willey Ley and Werner von Braun, one …
Cool Actor of the Week: Brion James
One mark of a Cool Actor is the number of truly entertaining movies he’s appeared in. By that measure Brion James racked up one heck of a run, starting with a bit parts in Blazing Saddles and entertaining drive-in fare like Corvette Summer before his first truly memorable role in Walter Hill’s 1981 Vietnam allegory Southern Comfort where he played …
Hell’s Bloody Devils (1970)
In 1995, prolific exploitation director Al Adamson was murdered by his contractor, who buried him under the floor of the new bathroom. An ignominious end to be sure, but Al certainly left behind a ton of highly entertaining low-budget cheese-fests — stuff like Satan’s Sadists, Black Heat, Blazing Stewardesses, and Blood of Ghastly Horror. Hell’s Bloody Devils was sold as …
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 11: “Trash”
ScottD: Rolling again on the home stretch of the Big Damn Discussion of the Firefly TV series, and I take full responsibility for the delay in the previous installment getting done. It seems my bask of alligators got irradiated and all started laying eggs, even the male ones, and if you think ‘gators are normally cranky just try a male …