Smokey Bites The Dust (1981, directed by Charles B. Griffith)
Sheriff Hugh “Smokey” Turner (Walter Barnes) of Cyco County, Arkansas is determined to capture teenage car thief and prankster, Roscoe Wilton (Jimmy McNichol). Roscoe is determined to disrupt the high...
View ArticleRetro Television Review: Miami Vice 2.19 “The Fix”
Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Mondays, I will be reviewing Miami Vice, which ran on NBC from 1984 to...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Little Shop of Horrors (dir by Roger Corman)
Hi! Welcome to Horrorthon! It’s a tradition around these parts that we offer up a classic (or not-so-classic) horror film for our readers to watch every day in October. As we have just lost the...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: It Conquered The World (dir by Roger Corman)
“Man is a feeling creature, and because of it, the greatest in the universe….” So says scientist Paul Nelson (Peter Graves) towards the end of 1956’s It Conquered The Universe. Paul may be a scientist...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola,...
Have you ever woken up and thought to yourself, “I’d love to see a movie where a youngish Jack Nicholson played a French soldier who, while searching for a mysterious woman, comes across a castle...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (dir by Roger Corman)
Eyes. They’re one of the most important parts of our body but they’re also frightening easy to damage. Unlike the heart or the liver or the brain, they don’t have a protective covering of skin and...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: Premature Burial (by Roger Corman)
Poor Guy Carrell (Ray Milland!) The character at the center of the 1962 Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, The Premature Burial, Guy spends his days terrified of being buried alive. Like his father before...
View ArticleFilm Review: After Hours (dir by Martin Scorsese)
Directed by Martin Scorsese, 1985’s After Hours opens in an office. This isn’t the type of office that one might expect a Scorsese movie to open with. It’s not a wild, hedonistic playground like the...
View ArticleOn Stage On The Lens: The Andersonville Trial (dir by George C. Soctt)
1970’s The Andersonville Trial takes place in one muggy military court room. The year is 1865. The Civil War is over but the wounds of the conflict are still fresh. Many of the leaders of the...
View ArticleThe TSL Grindhouse: The Wild Angels (dir by Roger Corman)
“What is it exactly that you want?” a preacher (Frank Maxwell) asks a congregation of leather-clad bikers. “We want to get loaded!” Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) replies, “And we want to have a good...
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