GREAT OLD MOVIES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We've got a round-up of horror-related movies, TV shows, and books this week. To my great surprise, no one came up with...

THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958). Director: Robert Day.  James Rankin (Boris Karloff), a writer, is fascinated by the case of the presumably l...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS Season Two.  The second season of Hitch's half hour series -- not to be confused with The Alfred Hitchcock H...

KING KONG COMETH! Edited by Paul A. Woods. Plexus; 2005. Published to coincide with the release of Peter Jackson's version of King Kong ...

THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR Season 3.  In its final season, this series remained quite entertaining despite a surplus of mediocre episodes. ...

Don't forget the two GREAT OLD MOVIES contests. So far no one has come up with the correct answers to win a brand-new Exorcist Blu-Ray ...

TWO LOST WORLDS (1951). Director: Norman Dawn. James Arness [billed as James Aurness ] plays Kirk Hamilton, who leaves Salem in a clippe...

CREEPSHOWS: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide . Stephen Jones. Billboard Books; 2002. This volume offers an excellent look into the m...

FOXY: MY LIFE IN THREE ACTS A Memoir . Pam Grier with Andrea Cagan. Springboard; 2010. Actress Pam Grier came to prominence in the seventies...

THE SHORTCUT (2009). Director: Nicholaus Goossen. It seems there's this shortcut through the woods that most people stay away from sinc...

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YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939). Director: George Marshall. W. C. Fields is, as usual, excellent in this comedy, even if most of t...

FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964). Director: Nathan Juran.  20th century astronauts make it to the moon, only to discover a British flag draped...

FORBIDDEN MUSIC (aka Land Without Music /1936), Director: Walter Forde. In the Grand Duchy of Lucca, Princess Maria (Diana Napier) is appal...

SVENGALI (1931). Director: Archie Mayo. " Trilby in England would be like a butterfly in mutton soup ." The impoverished music in...

THUNDERBIRDS (2004). Director: Jonathan Frakes. The Tracy family, headed by widower Jeff (Bill Paxton, pictured), form an outfit called Int...

DECEPTION (2008). Director: Marcel Langenegger. " Are you free tonight? " A somewhat shy and nerdy accountant named Jonathan (Ewa...

1000 COMIC BOOKS YOU MUST READ . Tony Isabella. Krause; 2009. NOTE: Given the number of comics now being turned into movies -- as well as th...

KING KONG (1933) on Blu-Ray . Released September 28th, 2010. This is a newly remastered print of the wonderful original King Kong with lo...

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (2008). Directors: Ron Clements; John Musker. Disney Studios. Tiana, a black waitress in New Orleans who is hopin...

ZOTZ (1962). Producer/director: William Castle.  A college professor, Jonathan Jones (Tom Poston), discovers that an ancient coin gives hi...

PARTY ANIMALS: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll starring the fabulous Allan Carr . Robert Hofler. Da Capo Press;...

MOUSEHUNT (1997). Director: Gore Verbinski. Two brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, both of whom are excellent) inherit a ramshackle mansi...

THE WOLFMAN (2010). Director: Joe Johnston. Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), an acclaimed stage actor, comes back to his ancestral home ...

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948). Director: Anatole Litvak.  " Henry! There's someone at the top of the stairs !"  Barbara Stanwyc...

X-MEN (2000). Director: Bryan Singer. This is an excellent filmic realization of the long-running Marvel Comics series that first began publ...