You are about to read an excerpt from my new book The Shadow in Review. At the end of this blog entry, you will find a shamless promotion for the book. But...
Category - Movies
Special News Bulletin! Normally my blog entries appear magically every Friday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time. But I just couldn’t wait to give you the...
The Black Widow was one of Republic’s 1947 serials that had a lot of potential. Untapped potential, it sadly turns out. The plot was engaging. The music...
We all like a good pirate movie, don’t we? And we all love the old movie serials. So the natural question to ask is: Were there any pirate serials? You...
Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in the original Superman serial, passed away this past Sunday, July 3. It seems appropriate, then, to pull out an old review I...
Now this is more like it! While not one of the classic cliffhangers from the early 1940s, The Invisible Monster, a 1950 Republic chapter-play, has what it...
This review of Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion was written by me a dozen years ago, so when I make mention of transferring a laserdisc to DVD...
Erle Stanley Gardner was a pulp writer nearly all of his life, not just in the early years. But for all his prolific pulp writing, he’s still indelibly...
Let’s go back about a dozen years and read about the 1943 Republic serial Manhunt in the African Jungle. I had just put my thoughts down on paper…...
Republic Pictures produced some of the most pulpy of movie serials. And I’ve seen a ton of them. What follows is a review that was written in 2004 but...