As kids, most of us caught Disney's post-Walt release of The Jungle Book , based upon the works of famed British writer Rudyard Kipl...

I've already written plenty about Bride of Frankenstein , but - let's get real - it's one of my favorite movies of all time....

According to media reports , legendary musician and iconoclast, Prince, is dead at 57. Oh, man. Purple Rain hit the radio and movie ...

You're gonna need to block out fifteen minutes for this one.  Sorry. A few years ago The Alamo Drafthouse was running a series based...

Late Edit:   A more full story in the NYT tells me some of what you see below isn't entirely correct.  Looks like MLK, Sojourner Tr...

JimD has alerted me that this date marked the final post at the first blog I ran, League of Melbotis .  That statement is semi-correct. ...

This is so wrong.  NSFW, btw.

In February of 1919, some of the greats of the silent era - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith - came t...

I finally busted out my disk of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) (or, Star Wars VII as the kids are calling it). I'm pleased i...

Dude.  I kind of vaguely knew this was coming out, but hadn't seen any trailers.  If you're going to make a Tarzan movie in 2016, ...