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19th & Chestnut 30 Years Ago

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Joe

30 Years ago, I started working at a place at 20th and Chestnut and about a block east of that, a portion of the movie Philadelphia was being shot. The character that Denzel Washington played in the movie had a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia, Photography | Tagged 1992, 19th, Chestnut, movie, Philadelphia, theater | Leave a comment

Desert Island Cinema — Laura

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Joe

This is a new category I’m creating at Willceau Illo News to share the movies I can’t live without. These are the movies I would hope to have with me if I were trapped on a desert island. Thy are … Continue reading →

Posted in Desert Island Cinema | Tagged 1944, classic, DVD, Laura, movie, physical media, used | Leave a comment

Getting Out of Dodge for a Day

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Joe

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 | 2 Comments

The Original Animal House

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Joe

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 →

Posted in Movie Matinee, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV? | Tagged 1962, Animal House, Britain, carouse, college, England, Ian McShane, Jeremy Brett, John Hurt, Matinee, movie, Movie Matinee, pranks, The Wild and the Willing, University | Leave a comment

It’s the End of the World as We Know It

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Joe

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 | Leave a comment

GASLIGHT

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Joe

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 | Leave a comment

In Praise of Physical Media

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Joe

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 | Leave a comment

The Post-Apocalypse on $5 a Day

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Joe_Williams

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 | Leave a comment

Don’t Feed Them After Midnight

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Joe_Williams

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 →

Posted in Curious Clutter | Tagged 1984, Gremlins, Joe Dante, monster, movie, sticker | 2 Comments

Look-Out Sister!

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Joe_Williams

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 | 2 Comments

Never Say Never Again

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Joe_Williams

PLUS 2 ALL NEW BLOCKBUSTERS!!!

Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Philadelphia | Tagged 1980s, 1983, analog, Budco Goldman, Chestnut Street, demolished, gone, James Bond, Joe Williams, movie, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, vintage | 2 Comments

Giant Monsters at the Y

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Joe_Williams

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 | 2 Comments

The Ultimate Experience?

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Joe_Williams

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 | Leave a comment

Plus Our Regular Features

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Three features — a BARGAIN! I doubt if Windows had anything to do with operating systems on personal computers. I wonder if Wanda the Wicked Warden was as good as it’s alliterative title.