The Land of Cerpts and Honey

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY PETER CUSHING!       Of all the towering talents of horror cinema, there are few ranked higher in my affection ...

ŌGON BATTO A.K.A. THE GOLDEN BAT IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE FIRST JAPANESE SUPERHERO CHARACTER.   Here we find him up on the silver scr...

A SHAMEFUL WASTE OF A COMIC GENIUS.   MGM unleashed this extremely minor comedy on the world in 1962; or it probably is more accurate to...

  YEP, THAT'S CORRECT, HUMPH -- I'M A SLACKER!   While this year I'm not officially continuing last year's "Super-C...

THE PASSING OF ANOTHER COMIX GREAT.   Drawing since the Golden Age of Comics and one-time head honcho of DC Comics, Carmine Infantino wa...

THIS MORNING I FOUND ON MY COMPUTER MSN ENTERTAINMENT (WHATEVER THAT IS) LISTING THE 100 GREATEST FILMS EVER.   Being a ravening film bu...

IN HONOUR OF DOUGLAS ADAMS' 61st BIRTHDAY, I've dug through the mouldering old pile of cassettes in the bottom drawer and uncov...

I was saddened to belatedly hear of the death of radio interviewer Ralph Collier who died January 31st of this year at the age of 91.   ...

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO -- MARCH 1963 -- WHEN THE FIRST BEATLES ALBUM WAS RELEASED.   This month marks a half-century of Beatlemania and to ...

FOR THIS MONTH'S GROUP OF AUDIO GOODNESS, IT'S STRAIGHT TO THE SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD.   This February I'm feeling very loun...

Not withstanding the former Pope John Paul II's failure to abdicate during his obvious ill health during the final years of his pontific...