John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES CALIENTE! Or, as they like to say in the pulp field, spicy. These were the soft-core porn mags of their time. There were a lot of clutching hands, heaving bosoms, panting kisses, white fleshy globes, glistening thighs, etc, but it rarely got more descriptive than that. Oh yes, bondage of various sorts was also very popular. …
Cool Actor of the Week – Dawn Olivieri
Ordinarily, we go with actors who have long, established careers for our Cool Actor picks, but this time around we’re going with an up-and-comer — the lovely Dawn Olivieri. While she had appeared on Veronica Mars, Las Vegas, and How I Met Your Mother, I first saw Dawn in my buddy Jeff Burr’s movie Devil’s Den (2006), where she played a …
Stephanie Fondue
One of my favorite sexploitation movies is The Cheerleaders (1973) — not only does it deliver the goods in terms of great cheesy dialogue, tons of nudity, and hot ’70s foxes in skimpy cheerleader outfits, it also pays off big time by bringing us the one-and-only movie appearance (as far as anyone knows) of a saucy young thang who went …
Tanzi and Scott’s Battlestar Galactica Adventure – Pt. 2
In case you missed it, you can find the first part of our gang-re-watching of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series right here. Scott: All right, we begin the second part of the BSG mini-series with Apollo (and many others) presumed dead in a Cylon attack, and the Galactica about to make an FTL jump to a distant munitions depot. Meanwhile, Boomer …
Classic Rock Sunday: Queen
What do you get when you team an astrophysicist guitar virtuoso who built a legendary guitar out of an 18th century fireplace with a flamboyantly mustachioed Zoroastrian from Zanzibar and then add a terrific rhythm section? No, you don’t get The Hong Kong Cavaliers, you get Queen. Combining the best elements of heavy metal, prog rock, glam and pop, Queen …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES MULTI-GENRE! Up until now we’ve been sticking mainly to the sf/fan pulps, but at one time or another there was a pulp magazine aimed at just about every interest, and we’re going to explore some of these decidedly odd titles this time around. I admit that because there’s so much weird stuff out there it was …
“Nothing But The Rain” – We Revisit Battlestar Galactica
Scott here: We’re doing something a little different here at Cheese Magnet with this post — I was a loyal viewer of the new Battlestar Galactica from the beginning, but Tanzi came in late to the game (after the series had completed its run, I believe). We’ve both been itching to watch the entire series again, and decided we’d kind …
Cool Actor of the Week – Richard Boone
This post is gonna be almost as much “Cool Show of the Week” as it is Cool Actor, because I’ve recently gotten hooked by Have Gun – Will Travel, and that led me to make its star Richard Boone the Cool Actor this time around. Boone, like last week’s Cool Actor Clint Walker, was a rough-and-tumble product of The Greatest …
The Proclaimers (or: Two for Tuesday in more ways than one)
At the Albuquerque Comic Con this past weekend, I saw a couple guys who were rocking the Proclaimers look, despite not being twins. That got me thinking about the Proclaimers, and I rooted out the videos below. The first song, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” was almost inescapable for a time (and the video below ties in with the song’s …
My Horror Host: Dr. Paul Bearer
A brief history lesson: in the time before cable tv we only had a few channels to choose from and every market had at least one UHF station. UHF was the less powerful portion of the broadcast spectrum and home to the independent stations while the network affiliates tended to broadcast in mighty VHF. UHF stations were where the good …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS, PER REQUEST, THE OCTOPUS & THE AVENGER THE OCTOPUS (Feb.-March 1939) was a villain pulp that unfortunately lasted only one issue. I can’t describe it any better than the splash on the original magazine: “From the bowels of the City, hideously deformed monsters emerged; hungry for the food of human life, and the purple glow of …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
FACE-OFF: Seaview vs. Gotengo Two more movies go at it tooth and claw to establish their supremacy in the giant-techno-sub-adventure-under-the-sea genre as VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA goes man-a-mano with ATRAGON. VOYAGE is a 1961 Irwin Allen flick that was later turned into a fairly popular television show. ATRAGON (1963; original name KAITEI GUNKAN) is the Ishiro Honda …