Pulp Cover Friday Welcome to Pulp Cover Friday. I intend to keep these entries short on text and long on pictures, but for this first one I’m going to start off with a few introductory words. Or paragraphs. One of my long-term side projects is a study of American science fiction magazines of the 1950s. When it’s complete I’ll have …
An Interview with Mike “Sharktopus” MacLean
I “met” author/screenwriter Mike MacLean through Facebook when The Other Scott Phillips posted a link to the trailer for Sharktopus. After the amazing Internet buzz for that movie, I wanted to ask Mike a few questions and he was gracious enough to agree to an interview. We didn’t get a chance to cover his fiction writing, so please visit Mike’s …
Trailers of Trouser-Ensoilment
When I was a kid, my older brothers used to take me to the drive-in with them. Most of the time we’d see a Steve McQueen movie or a Clint Eastwood movie but even at those flicks, we’d often get trailers for horror movies. A lot of the time, those trailers scared me so badly, I couldn’t even imagine being …
JohnJosMiller’s CREATURE FEATURE
Tiny People Phantom Planet (1961) File this one under: science fiction, classic science fiction, alien invasion, wandering planet I’ve just thought up a new classification scheme (as a recovering archeologist, I love doing stuff like this) that may make your reading experience more pleasant as it enables you to see right away if the movie I’m reviewing fits into any …
Cool Actor of the Week: Robert Tessier
Cheese Magnet contributor John Jos. Miller suggested our pick for Cool Actor of the Week this time around, and you won’t find many cooler than Robert Tessier. You might not know his name, but you’ve seen him a hundred times. Born in 1934, Tessier served in the Korean war as a paratrooper, where he earned a Silver Star and a …
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AVE ATQUE VALE I was reading the last Spenser novel last night and it got me to thinking about the two great writers we lost about a year apart about the same time of the year, Robert Parker and Donald Westlake. Both were favorites of mine. Both weren’t young, both died suddenly. Donald Westlake was the first to go. He …
Hot T-Shirts (1980)
Infamous porn director Chuck Vincent brings us this late-era drive-in sexploitation flick, and while Hot T-Shirts certainly delivers on the promises it makes, it’s also surprisingly restrained and almost innocent, considering the man behind the camera. The movie’s naughty opening credits are accompanied by a godawful disco song, featuring the lyrics: “My body is wet, my body’s soakin’ wet, my …
Classic Rock Sunday – Marc Bolan and T Rex
Kicking off our new Classic Rock Sunday feature, Marc Bolan and T Rex give a first class demonstration of what rock and roll is all about. The shrieking backup singers mar an otherwise first rate performance. Drugs are bad, mmkay? Also, I’m thinking more of today’s rockers should wear a cape.
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The Biceps That Launched A Movie Genre: Steve Reeves IS The Man We live in the Golden Age of Movies. It’s not that the movies currently being made are so damn great, but that we can actually own virtually any movie, classic or craptacular, that we might care to. Case in point, the two Steve Reeves epics I discuss in …
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
I first saw The Crow: Wicked Prayer while in the throes of a brutal case of stomach flu — the movie was on the SyFy Channel (back when it was still the Sci Fi Channel), and days later, I thought that in my weakened state, I must have imagined how deliriously awful it was. Surely, no movie could attain that …
Cool Actor of the Week: David Warner
He’s played Nazis, serial killers, super villians, simpletons, at least one Evil Genius and even a Master Control Program, bringing gravitas and panache to every role. He’s definitely a “hey, it’s that guy” actor but David Warner is more than just a character actor. Like many British actors, he started off in Shakespeare before moving on to film and television. …
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In my last blog post I incorrectly stated that the Cowboys were off to a pathetic 1-5 start. Actually, they are off to a pathetic 1-6 start. I regret my error. Oh, wait. I don’t.
Books for the Nook
If you have one of those fancy Barnes & Noble Nook eBook readers, two of my books are now available in that format — my collection of short stories, Tales of Misery and Imagination, and a collection of my movie reviews, Unsafe On Any Screen. If you’re a regular reader of Cheese Magnet, then you probably know what to expect …
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POT-SMOKING HIPPIES CRUSH TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT In a horrific beat down the likes of which has not been seen since the days of the Alamo, a scruffy band of pot-smoking hippies from the city by the Gay beat the living crap out of the boys of the No Star state and sent them home to bed without either dinner or …