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...
Category - Serials
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...
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...
It seems that we who love the old pulps seem to find a lot of commonalities in the old movie serials. Back in 2004 I was going through a marathon session of...
It was early 2004 and I was transferring a bunch of my VHS tapes onto DVD. One of those tapes was the colorized and edited version of the 1952 Republic...
Strap that rocket pack to your back, take a running start and whoosh! You’re off, flying through the air, ready to challenge the monsters of evil that...
The Spider made his debut in the pulp magazines in 1933 in response to rival The Shadow. And it took only five years for it to make it to the screen in the...