Mine’s Bigger Than Yours : The 100 Wackiest Action Movies By Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner
A celebration of the wildest and weirdest that action cinema has to offer, the hosts of the Really Awful Movies podcast take you on a fun-filled pilgrimage through the nuttiest movies in the genre. There are a hundred movies in this book and I love that the creators didn’t just go for the expected but […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Two Brothers in Trinity (1972)
Jesse & Lester – Due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità (Jesse & Lester – Two Brothers In a Place Called Trinity) starts Richard Harrison as woman-loving, gun shooting Jesse Smith and Donald O’Brien as Lester O’Hara, a God-fearing Mormon. They’re also half brothers who have inherited land from their uncle and must kick gold prospectors […]
The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster by Ed Hulse
The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art created for several hundred classic Westerns produced from 1903 to 1978. More than 800 images — many reproduced as full page — make this the most comprehensive book of Western movie poster art ever published — or so the press release says. The book […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Good Against Evil (1977)
Originally airing on May 22, 1977, this attempt at a weekly series comes from director Paul Wendkos (The Mephisto Waltz, Secrets, Haunts of the Very Rich) and Hammer veteran Jimmy Sangster (The Legacy; Scream, Pretty Peggy; Horror of Dracula; The Revenge of Frankenstein). I was really excited about the potential of this one, which promises from its Amazon listing that […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Get Christie Love! (1974)
Directed by William Graham (Return to the Blue Lagoon) and written by George Kirgo, this is the pilot movie for the eventual series that starred Teresa Graves as Christie Love. Graves was the second African-American woman to star in her own television series after Diahann Carroll in Julia. Based on the novel The Ledger by […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Four Deuces (1975)
Vic Morano (Jack Palance) owns the speakeasy nightclub The Four Deuces while also being in the middle of a war with rival businessman Chico Hamilton (Warren Berlinger). The Four Deuces are his soldiers Chip Morono (Giani Russo), Mickey Navarro (Hard Boiled Haggerty) Ben Arlen (Johnny Hamer) and Smokey Ross (Martin Kove). This has a lot […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Firehouse (1971)
Richard Roundtree — a star from Shaft making a TV movie a year later, was that a step back? — is Shelly Forsythe, a black firefighter bringing racial tensions to a firehouse. This is even worse when Spike Ryerson (Vince Edwards), the oldest firefighter, claims that an arsonist has to be black. The men include Val Avery […]
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