Murder, She Wrote pilot episode: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Created by Peter S. Fischer, William Link and Richard Levinson — the latter two were also the creators of Columbo — this show was originally going to star Jean Stapleton, who turned it down. Angela Lansbury, who had played Ms. Marple in several movies, was the perfect choice to play Jessica MacGill Fletcher, a woman […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie (1980)
No, this is not Eugenie (AKA Philosophy in the Bedroom). It’s also not Eugénie de Sade (AKA DeSade 2000). This is 1980’s Eugenie (Historia de una perversión), but yes, it’s another Jess Franco movie. It is a remake of the 1970 movie listed above and is also known as Erotismo. Franco danced with this subject many times, […]
ARROW 4K UHD RELEASE: Cruising (1980)
Despite being approached several times with New York Times reporter Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel Cruising, William Friedkin (The Exorcist, Sorcerer and perhaps not as successfully, Jade) wasn’t interested. He changed his mind after an unsolved series of murders in New York’s leather bars. Articles by Village Voice journalist Arthur Bell and NYPD officer Randy Jurgensen […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD RELEASE: Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Alfred Sole was an architect who dreamed of making movies. His first film, 1972’s Deep Sleep, which starred Deep Throat‘s Harry Reems and The Devil In Ms. Jones‘ Georgina Spelvin, was made for only $25,000. However, it was ruled obscene and pulled from theaters. His second film — the one we’re about to cover — may not […]
FULL MOON DVD RELEASE: The Primevals (2023)
A passion project of stop-motion master David Allen, it was unfinished due to his cancer death. In 2023, Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott finished the movie, which is filled with “100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects.” This started as Raiders of the Stone Ring, a movie developed more than sixty years ago by […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: The King of Queens (1998-2007)
Premiering on CBS on September 21, 1998, The King of Queens was one of those shows that always seemed to be on. I had never watched it, and all I knew about Kevin James was that he was Mick Foley’s high school wrestling teammate. But when I showed the box set on our weekly “What Came […]
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