Retro-Musings: “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” trilogy (1954-1956) was the last of Universal’s classic monster movie franchises…

******GILL-MAN SIZED SPOILERS!***** When I was a kid, I was all about monsters. In those bygone days before the internet, my very first magazine subscription (at the age of eight) was the late Forry Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine.  The monsters of the classic Universal movies (Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, the Wolfman) were…

A Movie Lover’s Dream; the Academy Museum…

The Academy Museum This week, my wife and I finally went where I’ve wanted to go since the place opened in September of 2021 (at the height of COVID, sadly); the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.  The museum is by-appointment only, via their website or app, and parking is across the street…