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Tag Archives: movie
Getting Out of Dodge for a Day
My son and I wanted to take in the latest Spider-Man movie, but we decided a change in venue was in order. We decided to take a short commuter train trip to the township of Narberth in Montgomery County to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting, Blast from the Past
Tagged Marvel, Montgomery County, movie, Narberth, Pennsylvania, Spider-man
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The Original Animal House
See if this sounds familiar: In a college town circa 1962 a group of students carouse from bar to bar, falling in and out of bed with coeds as well as married women and culminating in a prank that has … Continue reading
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Long before the overstuffed, CGI abominations such as The Day After Tomorrow and Man of Steel which I refer to as disaster porn and four decades before the disaster cycle of films of the ’70s such as The Towering Inferno … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged 1933, disaster, Hollywood, Internet Archive, Matinee, movie, Peggy Shannon, Pre-Code, Pub-D-Hub, special effects, Sydney Blackmer
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GASLIGHT
Today I am adding a new category so that I can share my love of radio drama — Mystery Matinee. Radio was king for a large portion of the twentieth century, and it was from radio where Americans received most … Continue reading
Posted in Mystery Matinee
Tagged audio, Gaslight, gaslighting, insanity, Lux, manipulation, movie, old time radio, play, radio
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In Praise of Physical Media
I’ve been kicking around ideas for this article for a while. Originally it was going to be one of my frugal/cheapskate posts, but recent events have changed it into something else. A friend of mine has done the unthinkable and … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged censor, cheapskate, Disney, DVD, frugal, Gone with the Wind, internet, movie, Neo-Puritan, property rights, Splash
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The Post-Apocalypse on $5 a Day
As Halloween approaches, I continue to watch some of the bottom-of-the-barrel horror films that I used to watch on UHF television way back when. Movies like this were usually presented by a horror host and constantly interrupted by commercials for … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Halloween, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Halloween, horror, movie, Roger Corman, Roku, war
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Don’t Feed Them After Midnight
It’s always the way: I am tearing the place apart looking for something which I never find but I uncover something which I had completely forgotten about. In this case I found a couple 0f pages of stickers promoting Joe … Continue reading
Look-Out Sister!
This is a fascinating curio from the late 1940s that I discovered on the Internet Archive channel on my Roku box. It’s a low budget Western featuring an all black cast and starring The King of the Jukebox — Louis … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Matinee, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged entertainment, Free, Internet Archive, jazz, King of the Jukebox, Louis Jordan, low budget, movie, Public Domain, Roku, Western
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Never Say Never Again
PLUS 2 ALL NEW BLOCKBUSTERS!!!
Giant Monsters at the Y
More aimless sketching at the YMCA. My son and I recently saw the big budget, American remake/reboot of the Japanese kaiju classic, and I guess the big G was floating around my brain and out through the end of my … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, creature, drawing, horror, Joe Williams, monster, movie, Sketch
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The Ultimate Experience?
The early ’80s was a curious time for movies with studios chasing down the movie that they would hope would be the record-breaking blockbuster. In the wake of Star Wars, science fiction and fantasy were in and all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Collecting, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1983, brain, brainstorm, Christopher Walken, movie, Natalie Wood, science fiction
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The Girl Who Dared
One of the beefs that people level at Netflix’s streaming service is that there’s nothing to watch. I don’t know about that. While it’s true that the studios seem to be bickering with Netflix over how much their libraries are … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Matinee
Tagged 1944, hand lettering, low budget, movie, mystery, Netflix, poverty row, Roku, The Girl Who Dared
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Bend Buxom Babes to YOUR Will!
Imagine making it to Third Base with the hottest girl in school using an ordinary TV set and a set of instructions that only cost THREE BUCKS!!!
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1975, AIM, buxom, chick, girl, hypnotism, Iron Man, Jack Kirby, mail-order, Marvel Comics, MODOK, monster, movie, robot, sex, super-hero, technology, television
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Sunday Matinee: A Hearty Welcome to Our Drive-In Theatre
Remember when the terms First Run, Second Run and Drive-In were used referring to movie theaters. Some towns had what we called dollar theaters which seemed to catch the very tail end of a movie’s release. Others had revival houses … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Movie Matinee, Stuff Joe Likes
Tagged Captain America, drive-in, DVD, home video, Mansfield, movie, Spider-man
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