71 posts tagged schlock

One day we will tell our kids about the days before the internetz and holocubes, or whatever the hell we watch films with, that this is how we used to rent vids. Historic 2018Blockbuster2019 Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past

Just because it is too quiet around here:

GIRLS IN CHAINS (1943). Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. When Helen Martin (Arline Judge, who sports one of the most hilarious hairdos ever seen!) is ostracized because her sister's husband, Johnny Moon (Allen Byron AKA Addison Randall), is a notorious hoodlum, she winds up trying to help the young women at a girls' correction facility.

Once a year, an early 70's piece of fluff comes on the radio that causes such personal revulsion and such disbelief in its inanity, that I will actually listen to the whole thing in very much the way people check out car crashes on the side of the highway.

In part two of our chat with editor Stacy Whitman, we discuss more about how to interact with editors: how to approach them at cons, how to inquire about work you’ve already submitted, and how to butter them up by asking about their current projects. To cap it off, we ask Stacy about her current projects.

Trash the Dress Trash the Dress 1 by `lady-atropos Artist's Comments Photographer: Michael Ellis of Toledo, Ohio Model: Me About: This is perhaps the tame and graceful bit of the series. This was shot for 'trash the dress' - a publication featuring wedding fashion that gets destroyed in the process of the shoot.

I could spend all day on YouTube researching obscure videos for this blog.  But this song stands out as a personal favorite.  I remember purchasing the vinyl single at Sam Goody at The Galleria in White Plains.  If you can look past the absurd hair and makeup of its band members, Device were the

Baby McBaby took his first steps this week — the first of many. This is, of course, a happy occasion. Yet you know me — I never let a happy occasion pass without pausing to add a bit of neuochemical Angst. Yes, I'm thrilled to see our little Soybean making his initial "one small step for mankind".

Go Speed Racer Go Music Video Those Wachowski brothers have the best damn visual sense of any creative team these days. That's the only thing that can describe why I'm fascinated by the new Speed Racer video. I have to say this increases my anticipation of the movie.

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (1966) What’s in a film title? EVERYTHING! A western horror classic from William “One Shot” Beaudine... ...plus Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965) No budget nonsense with James (Return Of The Living Dead) Karen, and Crispin Glover's father Bruce as