H.B.Halicki
“H.B. “TOBY”‘ HALICKIlived the American dream. At 15 he left his home in Dunkirk, New York and moved to California. He started working pumping gas and within two years owned his own body shop. He enrolled in real estate classes…
Ed Wood, B-Movie King, Gets a Film Retrospective
Twenty years ago, Johnny Depp played the title B-movie director in Tim Burton’s frisky biopic “Ed Wood.” The film introduced the eccentric Wood, then mostly known to fans of cult cinema, to a mainstream audience and renewed interest in his…
“Jaws” still alive on Martha’s Vineyard
Forty years ago, Edgartown Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard, looked a little different than it does today. The tranquil summer tourist magnet was transformed into Amity Island, the famous town from “Jaws.” Roy Scheider, left, and Richard Dreyfuss are shown…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
To this day my friend and I still refer to the gremiln like he is real. When something goes wrong with my computer, it is the gremlin, when my keys are misplaced and then show up in a spot that…
Evil Toons (1992)
Four women are staying the weekend in a spooky house they’ve been hired to clean, but before long one of them has been possessed by a demon unwittingly brought to life and embarks on a murderous rampage. I really like…
Women’s Prison Movies
Babes behaving badly. Chicks in chains. Sweeties in the slammer. As a rule, movies about women in prison have been far from subtle. In fact, they’re part of what cinema buffs would call the exploitation genre. Conceived by men, produced…
Hold On! (1966)
Somebody, somewhere, in 1966, got the idea to make a movie featuring the English rock-n-roll band Herman’s Hermits. That somebody should be interrogated at length. This movie was obviously a crass attempt to cash in on the evolving music phenomena…