Writer Walter B. Gibson originally created The Shadow to be nothing more than the “spooky” announcer for a radio drama series, with its sole purpose to boost sales for a flagging pulp magazine, but listeners became so intrigued with the character that they start demanding stories featuring this mysterious figure, and thus a crime-fighting legend…
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Hausu (1977) – Review
A haunted house is one of the more popular settings of the horror genre but with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu we get something altogether unique, and by that I mean this film is like no other horror movie you’ve ever seen. This Japanese cult classic combines surrealism, horror and comedy in a bizarre mind-bending experience that…
Blind Fury (1989) – Review
The 1980s saw a boom in great action films, with Arnie and Stallone dominating the genre, but in 1989 actor turned producer Tim Matheson would take his love of itinerant blind masseur and Japanese swordsman Zatoichi, and along with star Rutger Hauer, he’d create a rather fun and bizarre action movie, this flick was Blind…
“It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman!” (1975) – Review
The first Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman movie was three years away when this Broadway musical adaptation was forced on the unsuspecting public and despite being well-reviewed on Broadway it was the biggest flop to hit “The Great White Way” at that time. This led to the creation of a heavily reworked TV special which was…
The New Adventures of Superman (1966 – 1970) – Review
By the late 60s Superman hadn’t been seen in animated form since the Fleischer brothers had immortalized him in their theatrically released Superman short films back in the 1940s – unless you count those brief animated flying sequences in the Kirk Alyn Superman serials – but this outing was from Filmation studios and would be…