Monday, 15 January 2024

Reflections on ... Thundercrack! (1975) and The Scala Cinema

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/ George Kuchar and Marion Eaton in Thundercrack! (1975) / To commemorate the release of the excellent new documentary S cala!!! Or the In...
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Friday, 5 January 2024

The Next Lobotomy Room Film Club ... Strait-Jacket (1964) on 18 January 2024

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  Considering campy horror masterpiece Strait-Jacket turns sixty this month (it was released on 19 January 1964), it’s only fitting that it...
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Sunday, 31 December 2023

Reflections on ... New Year's Evil (1980)

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  Staying in tonight? Want some thematically appropriate festive viewing? I recommend grisly low-budget slasher flick New Year’s Evil (1980...
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Monday, 18 December 2023

Mamie Van Doren's Christmas Pictorial in Escapade Magazine (1966)

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  In the countdown to Kitschmas ... Mamie Van Doren's festive pictorial for Escapade magazine, 1966. I posted this set on my Facebook a...
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Monday, 20 November 2023

Reflections on ... Tomato Soup Cake

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Further adventures in baking: on Sunday the boys were coming round, so I whipped up Tomato Soup Cake from B Dylan Hollis’ essential Baking Y...
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Saturday, 21 October 2023

Reflections on ... the hates and loves of Ann-Margret in 1964

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  In 1964, then-23-year-old starlet Ann-Margret bared her soul to 16 Magazine about her “hates and loves” (or, as they put it at the time: ...
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Saturday, 7 October 2023

Reflections on ... Little Richard: I am Everything (2023)

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  I finally watched the 2023 documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything . (It's streaming on Amazon Prime). Director Lisa Cortés succe...