GREAT OLD MOVIES

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! Give thanks for all the great movies out there and watch out for those turkeys !

PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961). Producer/director: Roger Corman.  Francis Barnard (John Kerr) arrives at the castle of his brother-in-law Don...

THE COSMIC MONSTERS (1958/aka The Strange World of Planet X and The Cosmic Monster .) Director: Gilbert Gunn.  " Insects! Oh mon die...

HONEY WEST (1965) ABC-TV series. This series about a female private eye only lasted one season and thirty episodes, but it could be ver...

IRON MAN 2 (2010). Director: Jon Favreau. Antony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) returns as the armored hero in this sequel to Iron Man . The plot...

DON'T MIND IF I DO . George Hamilton and William Stadiem. Touchstone; 2008. George Hamillton has always come across as a vaguely likable...

TEENAGE DOLL (1957). Producer/director: Roger Corman. A young lady is thrown off of a roof and killed, precipitating a series of events amo...

Arch Johnson [on the right] or Gene Evans [on the left]? It happens all the time. I'll be watching an old TV show or movie and...

CLORIS: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY . Cloris Leachman with George Englund. Kensington; 2009. Ms. Leachman -- with the help of ex-husband Englund -- wri...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS Season 3.  The delightfully droll Hitch introduces 39 more half hour episodes of mayhem, mischief, murder, and m...

CELL Stephen King. 2006; Pocket. King has come up with a creepy thriller in which cell phones are used to mount a massive attack against th...

AGAINST TYPE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BURT LANCASTER . Gary Fishgall. 1995; Scribner. A solid bio of Lancaster, who had a long and interesting care...

X2 (aka X-Men 2; X2: X-Men United /2003). Director: Bryan Singer. This sequel to X-Men is another winner. Seems a bad guy named Willam Stry...

THE OTHER MAN (2008). Director/screenwriter: Richard Eyre. " Losers are brilliant at making things pretty ." Peter (Liam Neeson) ...

SPEED RACER (2008). Directed by Andy and Lana Wachowksy. This bizarre movie is an updated, live-action version of a Japanese [shown in Amer...

THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND (1953). Director: Alvin Ganzer. Towards the end of WW2 a contingent of marines come to a small island to build...

THE MIST (2007). Director: Frank Darabonte. David Drayton (Thomas Jane) finds himself locked in a living nightmare when he and his son Bill...

NANCY DREW (2007). Director: Andrew Fleming. The venerable girl detective, Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts), leaves River Heights for California w...

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...