Today's movie, 4D Man (1959), is by no means a great sci-fi movie, but it has a Silver Age comics vibe that I find appealing. This mov...

First off, I want to apologize for not posting over the weekend, and to let loyal readers know that that will probably be the case for the r...

Rather than review a movie today, I want to point readers to Turner Classic Movies , which is showing 4 Hammer horror films tonight, and eve...

Watch enough Hammer horror movies, especially the vampire movies, and certain formulas and tropes become apparent. For example, many of the...

Yesterday, I covered the 1970 Hammer horror film The Vampire Lovers , starring Ingrid Pitt, and as promised, here's Ingrid Pitt's se...

Every Halloween season, I try to watch a bunch of Hammer horror films, and I feel that's especially appropriate this year, as Hammer Pro...

If I had to make a list of the most awesome people in human history, Harry Houdini would easily be in the top five. So, when Kino put out a ...

I've recently received a letter from my faithful young reader, who asks a question so important that I had to answer it immediately: Dea...

I have had a couple of occasions where I've encountered a movie on its own that I had previously seen on MST3K, only to find the movie i...

In past years, I have tried, with varying degrees of success,to do a Halloween blogging marathon during the month of October. I can't s...

Sad news today that actor Tony Curtis passed away at the age of 85. Most obits today are focusing on his classic comedic performance in Bil...

The term "worst comic book of all time" or "worst comic ever" gets bandied about quite a bit, and while there have been ...

DC Comics Presents Annual 3 (1984) is the gift that keeps on giving ... punches, that is! When is it going to stop? As usual, plot by Roy ...

It's going to be a light week for Blackhawk Wingsdays, but I did want to start sharing some of the Blackhawk sketches I've recently ...

The postwar popularity of the Blackhawks sort of confuses me. Comics audiences lost interest in most war-oriented series soon after World W...

Once again, from DC Comics Presents Annual 3 (1984), written by Roy Thomas and Joey Cavalieri. This time, Superman gets backhanded by a Siv...

In an earlier Gil Kane Punch of the Week , supplied by Mike Sterling of Progressive Ruin fame, I featured a page from the 1984 DC Comics Pr...

First off, my apologies for the summer long gap in this blog. Right around the time I was planning on devoting more time to the blog, a bun...

I first wanted to let readers know that it will be a few days before I update with the next Exile on Main St. annotation, but after that, I...

The Rolling Stones' classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street has long been one of my favorite records--one which I've purchased in v...