Yearly Archives: 2012
Show Review: Renninger’s Antique Extravaganza 2012
I am a regular attendee of flea markets, swap meets, garage sales, and the like but I can still say with 100% certainty that there is nothing else quit like Renninger’s fall Antique & Collectors Extravaganza in Mt. Dora, Florida. ...
DVD Review – Big John, Little John: The Complete Series
Released By: VCI Entertainment Release Date: October 2, 2012 Number of Discs: 2 Approximate Running Time: 312 Minutes Special Features: Stills Gallery, Episode Synopses, Series Synopsis Suggested Price: $19.99 The Source:After taking a drink from the fabled fountain of youth while on a vacation inFlorida, a ...
Spooky Empire 2012
I have passed on the last couple of Spooky Empire events due partially to the lack of enough interesting guests to warrant the time and money and partly to the incredible Cult Fiction Drive-In show in Jacksonville ruining me for ...
DVD Review: Carnival Magic
Released By: Cultra Release Date: January 25, 2012 Number of Discs: 2 Approximate Running Time: 100 Minutes Special Features: Producer Commentary Track, Trailers, Outtakes Suggested Price: $19.99 The Source: A small travelling carnival is on the brink of bankruptcy until their resident magician/mentalist adds a talking ...
Cruising in California 2012
Visiting California has been near the top of my to do list for a very long time. Even though I have traveled most of the United States, I never quite made it all the way to the other end of ...
DVD Review: Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp
Released By: Film Chest Release Date: May 29, 2012 Number of Discs: 3 Approximate Running Time: 600 Minutes Special Features: Making Of Documentary, Photo Gallery, Postcard Suggested Price: $24.98 The Source: He stands for justice, he has no fear. He’s the agent to call when trouble ...
ZAAT: Live at The Alamo!
By the early 1970’s, the road show era of motion pictures was almost extinct. The Jacksonville, Florida lensed ZAAT was one of the final films to be ballyhooed with individually tailored screenings when actor Wade Popwell once again donned the ...
- Alamo Drafthouse | Austin | Texas | ZAAT
The Hulk Turns 50!
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of one of Marvel Comics popular superheroes, The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk made his debut in May 1962 in his own comic called, of course, The Incredible Hulk. For myself, I didn’t discover the Hulk ...
- Avengers | Comic Books | Hulk | Marvel | Mego
Comic BooK Confidential: Boo 52!
Continuity. It may seem like a big word but to the publishers of DC Comics it has exactly four letters. Continuity seems to be a constant thorn in their side. It is a concept that they never seem to be ...
X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
I first saw X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes in 1986 on WNEW-TV Channel 5, an independent channel based out of New York City. It played during the summer as part of a sci-fi movie week that featured a ...
Abbey Road on the River 2012
Louisville, Kentucky is a town best known for the odd combination of bourbon and baseball bats but on Memorial Day weekend for the last couple of years it has also played host the massive Beatles festival known as Abbey Road ...
Premier of the Astro-Zombies!
A little over a year ago in March of 2011, Alex Ojeda and I headed down to New Smyrna Beach, Florida to join the crew of Blue Heron International Pictures in filming some of the second unit scenes for cult ...
VIDEO GAMES YEARS PART 2: NINTENDO AND BEYOND
In part one of my Video Game Years article, I wrote about the birth of video games and my experiences in the early 80’s with arcades and Atari. In part two, I will discuss the second big boom with video ...
DVD Review – Underdog: The Complete Series
Released By: Shout! Factory Release Date: February 21, 2012 Number of Discs: 9 Approximate Running Time: 1260 Minutes Special Features: Audio Commentaries, Interviews, Featurette Suggested Price: $69.97 The Source: After years of waiting and multiple false starts (most notably Classic Media’s 2007 Underdog: The Ultimate Collection ...
Megacon 2012
Low expectations aren’t necessarily a bad thing. When I was asked in advance of this year’s Megacon if I was looking forward to it, I had to grit my teeth and utter a tentative “maybe”. The two main factors that ...
- Comic Books | Conventions | Florida | Megacon
Video Game Years Part 1: The Arcade and Atari Days
Along with movies, comic books, cartoons, and TV shows, video games were a big element in my life while I was growing up. From the days in the arcade up until playing Nintendo at home, video games gave me tons ...
ZAAT’s All Folks!
If that title sounds a little more like an ending statement than an opening one, it’s because that is exactly what it was intended to be. The February 21, 2012 home video release of the film ZAAT on both DVD ...
Comic Book Confidential: Simply Spectacular
Being a comic book kid in the early 1970’s was a glorious thing. We didn’t realize it at the time, but DC Comics was giving us an education in the disguise of entertainment. Many of their core comic titles had ...