Today I bought the first DVD of the remastered 1960s Japanese sci-fi/horror/superhero TV series ULTRAMAN, which I first encountered around 1978 when I was living in Pittsburgh and watching just about anything that the independent stations showed. Like SPEED RACER, this show is exactly as old as I am...and shares the same English-language dubbing ( Read more... )

( This MAY Look More Familiar )

( Toho War Movie Trailer #1 )

The Americanized Godzilla was just on whatever that network is, the one that also carries the WWE Wrestling and that. Anyway, I was so underengaged that when the Navy was bombing Madison Square Garden, I was thinking can they even DO that with Harpoon missiles? Are those FAE warheads?And in the finale when Godzi was trapped in the cables and the ( Read more... )

Got the 1982-vintage Clint Eastwood movie on DVD from the Big Lots bargain bin this evening. Just saw the end of the third act. The effects...have not aged well. The photographic grain is overmuch, the perspectives on the miniatures are unconvincing and they could have been smarter with the interfacing of the elements. But then again, it WAS ( Read more... )

( Raw Uncut Messerschmitt )

The last couple days I've been helping my buddy Paul go through the archives of a former Hollywood "prosthetics and animatronics" house (better known as a "creature shop") for his former boss--a master at the art, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein who made monsters for his living. So far I've counted over 60,000 photos from various productions, ( Read more... )