A Different Emphasis for 2025 Unlike the WonderCons of recent years, this year’s annual pop culture fest in Anaheim, California (right across the street from Disneyland) had surprisingly fewer A-list actors and big studio representation. Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros and Paramount had nothing earth-shattering to unveil at this year’s con. With the huge, 7,500-seat Arena…
Month: March 2025
Star Wars comes to Riverside, California with “The Inland Empire Strikes Back”…
“The Inland Empire Strikes Back!” Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, Riverside, California. Riverside, California is where I first saw “Star Wars” (years before it was subtitled “A New Hope”) at a long-defunct mall theater back in August of 1977, at age 10, and it changed my life (not to mention the very art of cinema) forever….
Retro-Musings: “Duel” (1971) was Steven Spielberg’s road-rage fueled precursor to “JAWS”…
******TANKER-FUELED SPOILERS!****** When I was a little kid growing up in the 1970s, most made-for-TV movies (with a few notable exceptions) were usually talky police procedurals, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas or thrillers. 1970s television wasn’t the typical venue for balls-to-the-wall, high-octane action flicks. However, the medium of television is where future cinematic legend Steven Spielberg…
Three Irwin Allen sci-fi TV shows from the 1960s to be rebooted into a shared universe…
******SOME SPOILERS****** The late writer/producer/director Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was the engine behind a slew of wildly imaginative, pulp-adventure sci-fi shows from the 1960s, as well as the director/producer of several iconic 1970s ‘disaster’ movies (in terms of genre, not box office success), including “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “The Swarm” (1978)….
Musings on “Nosferatu” (1922/1979/2024); three versions of a “Dracula” variant…
******BLOOD-SUCKING SPOILERS!****** In 1974, at the tender age of around seven or eight, I was a real monster nerd. I remember having the Aurora model kits of the classic Universal Horror monsters, such as Frankenstein’s Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon (my favorite monster design) and the Wolf-Man (whom I spent much time in…
The Wrap of Khan: The long-rumored “Star Trek: Khan” audio drama-podcast finishes production…
In addition to the recent news of William Shatner’s possible return to the role of Kirk (Screenrant.com), which I can’t say I’m terribly excited about, there was other Star Trek news this past week that genuinely piqued my interest and anticipation. CBS has just announced that production has wrapped on the long-rumored audio drama-podcast called…