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DVD Recommendation: Accidentally Preserved, Volume 4
 Three films stood out for me on the new DVD release Accidentally Preserved, Volume 4.A Man's Size Pet (1926) involves a pair of cowhands who must interrupt their romantic rivalry to flee an...
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Tidbits of February, 2017
Happy days, my friends! I have a few tidbits for you today.Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) is the most infamous sequel of all time. Dr. Gene Tuskin (Louise Fletcher) and Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair)...
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"Boy, have we got a vacation for you!"
The Westworld television series, which features a number of hyperviolent female robots, got me thinking about the history of the female robot in films and television. This is very different from the...
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Kick Ass!
Noomi Rapace in Unlocked (2017)A week doesn't pass without the American public getting to see another action film with a woman who can kick ass. I can't believe that most people haven't gotten tired...
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No More Arrests
 Florida Senator Anitere Flores has filed a bill, Senate Bill 196, that will prevent police officers from arresting juveniles for the most common crimes. The bill could not occur at worst time. At...
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Voldemort is Donald Trump?
 Today, many Hollywood films should come with a warning label to let consumers know that the filmmaker seeks to expose them to a virulent and insidious form of political indoctrination.I have created a...
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Pryor Engagement
Woo-hoo, it's done! I just completed my newest book, which takes an in-depth look at the films of Richard Pryor. It was a challenging book to write, but I am very pleased with the results.The book...
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The Campaign of the Nitrate Film Interest Group to Identify Untitled Silent...
Fred ArdathThe Nitrate Film Interest Group, part of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, has set up photo albums on Flickr to allow scholars and film enthusiasts to scrutinize frame scans from...
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Spotlight on Frank McCarthy
When I was a kid, I would walk through a movie theater lobby to study the posters. I remember being mesmerized by the artwork featured on the poster for Valley of Gwangi (1969). The artist, Frank...
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New Book: "Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies"
Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw in Pajama Party (1964)I enjoyed Tom Lisanti's latest book, "Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies," for its interviews with a number of lovely drive-in movie actresses, including...
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The Dark Violent Truth About Hollywood's Obsession with the Female Robot
This is a transcript of a video that I posted to my YouTube channel in February.Good day, my friends. We are here today to talk about a special category of movie robots. You can called them gynoids,...
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Tidbits for October, 2017
Chaplin imitator Billy West in unidentified filmLet us begin today with a nostalgic look at the supermarket checkout of the 1960s.I am a big fan of Francis Veber comedies. This is the trailer for...
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New Lloyd Hamilton DVD
 I was excited to learn about an upcoming DVD of Lloyd Hamilton comedies to be produced by Dave Glass and Dave Wyatt. The collection will include His Musical Sneeze (1919), Dynamite (1920), The Simp...
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More Girls with Guns
David Niven and Olivia de Havilland in Raffles (1939) I wrote back in February about Hollywood's obsession with showing young woman firing off high-caliber guns. A day never passes without a gun-happy...
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Outsourcing Comedy Teams
 Paolo Villaggio and Renato PozzettoThe United States was the leading producer of comedy teams for decades. Their stellar product included Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, The...
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Fore!
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a unique game of golf in Great Guns (1941)The comedy team of Bennett and Williams appeared in Romford, Essex, for a charity golf match to aid the Romford Victoria...
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The Thinning: Characters Remove Pounds on their Way from Novel to Screen
This is a transcript of a video that I posted to my YouTube channel in February.  Fat outsiders have been the central characters in a number of classic horror novels. Norman Bates was a fat outsider....
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The Day the Oyster Slept
Curly Howard gamely endures in Dutiful But Dumb (1941)I have enjoyed many iterations of the oyster stew routine. Here is a funny version of the routine performed by Clyde Cook in Thundering Taxis...
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The Unrepentant Peanut Butter Thief
I took a stress management course in college. The point was made by the instructor that people can reduce most of their stress by learning conflict resolution. On the first day of class, we looked at...
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