Something Old, Nothing New

I've been wanting to write something about Dance a Little Closer , possibly the biggest musical flop of the '80s (even more than Car...

I'll have more to say about IDW's Best of Dan DeCarlo: Volume 1 collection later, but for now I'll note that -- as first pointe...

You may have noticed that Armond White , whose contrarianism and combination of unpredictability and utter predictability (he's loved ev...

I discovered some interesting comics and contributions during last year's bout of Archie Comics research, but one of my favorite discove...

I've said a few times that the late '90s (really, mid-to-late '90s, starting in 1995 or so) have their own very distinctive cult...

Having written about Frank's Place the other day, I'm sad to see that the man who helped create the distinctive look of the show di...

I'm sure this has been featured elsewhere, but it's the first time I saw it: the transformation scene from Pinocchio with only the ...

Those who read this blog know I'm a fan of Hugh Wilson, who is sort of a more humanistic version of the man who brought him into MTM, Ja...

Starcrash (or Star Crash , or Stella Star , or whatever you want to call it) on DVD. On Blu-Ray, yet (part of Shout! Factory's deal to...

Warning; the following post is for those who, like me, watched the "Yes, we have no bananas" scene in One, Two, Three and wondere...

You may have already seen William Martell's much-discussed post on how the intriguing script "Nottingham" became the unintrigu...

While still on the subject of past vs. present, I thought I would transcribe the opening of maybe the definitive essay by my favorite living...

Earlier today I was discussing the fact that on most areas of the internet, movie history is basically about 25 years long. This also applie...

The invaluable Doug Gray, who has pretty much my favorite comics blog), has Carl Barks's venture into the opposition camp, the Porky Pig...

If you don't mind my doing another music-related post, I wanted to follow up something I wrote in an earlier post, which is that Carmen,...