When Wisconsin Built a Giant Spider: Bill Rebane’s Regional Monster Movie In the summer of 1975, a giant hairy spider crawled down Main Street in Merrill, Wisconsin. Under the fur was a Volkswagen Beetle. Inside the Volkswagen were local kids pulling levers. Behind the camera was Bill Rebane, a Latvian immigrant who decided a movie […]
🎞️ F.T.A. Review: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s Lost Antiwar Road Show My Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ☆ 4.2/5 This F.T.A. review goes back to 1971. That year, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland built a traveling comedy show for soldiers tired of the Vietnam War. They took it to the towns outside American bases […]
🎬 Tom Skerritt Biography: Beloved Emmy Winning Actor and Air Force Veteran Tom Skerritt was one of the most dependable and quietly admired actors in American film and television, a performer whose career spanned more than six decades and more than 170 film and television productions. Rising from guest roles in the Westerns and war […]
🎞️ Son of Frankenstein Review: The Monster Returns for One of Universal’s Best Sequels My Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ☆ 4.6/5 This Son of Frankenstein review returns to 1939, when Universal decided the Monster still had one more story in him. Boris Karloff came back for the last time. Basil Rathbone moved into the […]
🎞️ Murders in the Rue Morgue 1932 Review: Bela Lugosi’s Twisted Pre-Code Horror Classic My Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ☆ 4.6/5 This Murders in the Rue Morgue 1932 review heads back to the year after Dracula made Bela Lugosi a star. Universal handed him a new villain with no cape, no castle, and no […]