Waking up to bad news is like a cold, angry slap in the face, as movie fans like myself were reminded this morning, February 27th, with the loss of two-time Oscar winner and one-of-a-kind actor Gene Hackman, who passed away at age 95; along with his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, and even his dog in…
Month: February 2025
Retro-Musings: 1975’s “The Dead Don’t Die” is an obscure, horror-noir TV-movie from the author of “Psycho”…
******UNDEAD SPOILERS!****** In January of 1975, an entertaining little thriller called “The Dead Don’t Die” aired on the ABC network, which was written by Robert Bloch (author of the 1959 novel “Psycho,” from which Hitchcock’s 1960 film was based) and directed by Curtis Harrington (“Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?”). Not to be confused with a more…
Trekking down memory lane with the “Star Trek” Fotonovels & Photostories…
In the dark ages, before streaming… This might come as a tremendous shock to younger readers, but once upon a time, when we Gen Xers were kids (sometime after the Yucatan impact killed the other dinosaurs), we weren’t able to simply stream nearly any movie or TV show we wanted on our phones, tablets or…
20 years later, “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (2005) remains a deeply flawed, yet uncannily prescient movie…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I want to begin by saying this will not be a conventional review (the kind normally found on this site), but rather a look at how “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” impacted me after a recent anniversary rewatch. I first saw the film on opening weekend in 2005 on an…
Star Trek TOS: “The Savage Curtain”; Abraham Lincoln beams up for a slightly goofy, yet memorable episode…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Here in the United States at the time of this writing, I’m not exactly in the ‘President’s Day’ spirit this month. However, this site is about sci-fi/fantasy/horror and nostalgia, not modern politics. Way back in March of 1969, Star Trek aired “The Savage Curtain,” an episode cowritten by no less than creator/ex-showrunner Gene…
“It’s baaaaack…”: CreepIECon 2025 continues to chill the Inland Empire…
“They’re baaaaaaack…” From its debut in February of 2022 , the bi-annual fright-fest known as “CreepIECon” (the IE capitalized for the Inland Empire region of SoCal), returns every February and September (as “CreepIECon Aftermath”) for SoCal residents (and a few out-of-staters) to partake in their shared love of horror and the supernatural. It’s Halloween in February, or…
Something is very very wrong on “Saturn 3” (1980)…
******SATURNIAN-SIZED SPOILERS!****** From my preteen and early teen years eagerly devouring every copy of “Starlog” magazine in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were a lot of movies that caught my attention, even though I often I lacked the means (i.e. transportation) to see them whenever I wished. That, and my parents weren’t keen…