Oct 16, 2017
Jim channels his inner child with a favorite from his early years watching monster movies with this review of 1960's "Dinosaurus!," starring Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson and Paul Lakather. A construction crew working on a remote island uncovers two dinosaurs and a caveman. When a freak lightning storm awakens the three,...
Oct 9, 2017
Jim examines a 1943 Universal classic that he initially did not like as a kid, but learned to appreciate recently - "Son of Dracula," starring Lon Chaney Jr, Louise Albritton, Robert Page and Evelyn Ankers. A mysterious Count Alucard visits a woman at her family's Louisiana plantation and strange things begin...
Oct 2, 2017
Jim looks at another one of the life-defining movies from his childhood in "From Earth To The Moon," based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name. In 1868, a successful business convinces his peers that they can all send someone to the moon and return them in a book that shows surprising insight into the events...
Sep 25, 2017
Man is under attack by "The Birds" in this 1963 classic from Director Alfred Hitchcock - starring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright and Suzanne Pleshette. This film is one that has played well during the 54 years of its existence and Jim digs into the whys and wherefores of its longevity on...
Sep 18, 2017
It's one of Jim's favorite Hammer Sci-Fi films as he recounts the impact "Five Million Years To Earth" (1967) had on his wanting to eb a filmmaker. The movie, which stars Andrew Keir, James Donald, Julian Glover and Barbara Shelley was directed by Roy Ward Baker and was the third of the popular "Quatermass" films....