We lost another good one today when Leslie Nielsen passed at the age of 84. Nielsen was sort of a B level serious actor for 30 years before he got his “big break” when he was cast as the doctor in Airplane. What’s really curious about that role is none of his lines are really funny on their own. In …
Classic Rock Sunday – Hawkwind
As a kid, I was aware of Hawkwind but I’m almost certain I’d never heard any of their music until recently — and I find this very strange because I was a huge Sword & Sorcery nut back then, and with Hawkwind’s connections to the genre (not to mention the Science Fiction aspect of a lot of their music), you’d …
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Pulp Cover Friday Now that I have semi-recovered from my annual mashed potato induced Thanksgiving stupor, here’s the pulp cover of the week. Since I mentioned the legendary PLANET STORIES last week, I thought I’d go with one of their covers this time around. PS specialized in tales of interplanetary adventure and daring-do set in a much more innocent milieu …
Cool Actor of the Week – Ingrid Pitt
It’s a sad fact that enough years have passed that the cool actors of the 60’s and 70’s are reaching an age where they must leave us. We lost a great one on Tuesday when Ingrid Pitt passed away at the age of 72. For male horror fans of a certain age Ingrid was responsible for imprinting the wonders of …
Classic Rock Sunday – The Easybeats
The Easybeats were Australia’s answer to The Beatles but they never had quite the impact in the States as the Fab Four. I don’t know what went wrong, they had great songs, a great looks and a phenomenal front man in Stevie Wright. Legend has it that Paul McCartney was driving around the English countryside when Good Times came on …
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Special Bonus Public Service Content-Free Non-Paid Commercial Announcements It’s commercial time, though virtually none of this has to do with my personal aggrandizement. Just some cool stuff I thought you should be aware of. First off, if you’re not reading my facebook page (and if you’re not, why not?), you’re probably not aware of the new internet sensation who made …
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Friday Pulp Cover Classics presents another fantastic image from another short run magazine, TOPS IN SCIENCE FICTION. This zine lasted only two issues, Spring and Fall, 1953. It was a reprint mag. All of its stories came from PLANET STORIES, so it’s not a big surprise that this cover by Leydenfrost was also recycled from the Spring 1942 issue. The …
Message From Space (1978)
When I was a kid, I used to drag my dad to a lot of crappy movies. He was always happy when it turned out to be something starring Caroline Munro, but most of the time he got stuck with stuff like The Incredible Melting Man or Laserblast. Message From Space holds a special place in my heart, though, not …
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Those Meddling Kids The creators of Scooby Doo did not invent the meddling kids sub-genre of fantasy (or, in Scooby’s case, faux fantasy) films. Kids were poking their noses into places where they didn’t belong well before Scooby and gang. Case in point are the two movies we review in this post. Both are products of American International Pictures, a …
Cool Actor of the Week: Adam Minarovich
Compared to the other actors we’ve featured, our Cool Actor of the Week this time around is something of a babe in the woods, but with the ass-beating he took on last Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead, Adam Minarovich deserves the nod. Witness the brutality for yourself in this clip: While The Walking Dead has him working alongside such …
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Big Bug THE DEADLY MANTIS (1957) Starring: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, and Alix Talton File under: Classic sf: giant monster: praying mantis One of the best Big Bug movies of the 1950s (probably second only to THEM!, which is the CITIZEN KANE of Big Bug movies), THE DEADLY MANTIS is one of those odd films which is preposterous yet competent …
Classic Rock Sunday – The Pretenders
The Pretenders absolutely killing it with Tattooed Love Boys. I love the Pete Townshend and Brian May tributes in the guitar solo. Incidentally, The Pretenders debut album is one of those records where every song was a hit or potential hit, similar to Boston’s debut and Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Thriller.