The USA World Premiere Movie Project: Sins of the Mind (1997)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. Strange But True: Mike Farrell, who stars in Sins of the Mind, co-wrote the...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: Maternal Instincts (1996)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. Maternal Instincts is notable for a couple of reasons. For one, Delta...
View ArticleLegend of Lizzie Borden gets a new DVD release date!
When Lizzie was announced earlier this year and then pushed back to August of 2015, many of us wondered if this incredible telefilm was ever going to see the light of day. It's been in limbo hell for,...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. It is Strange that The Haunting of Sarah Hardy ran in May of 1989 instead of...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: High Desert Kill (1989)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. Just like the characters in High Desert Kill, I was a witness… I was there…...
View ArticleSandcastles (1972)
Network: CBS Airdate: October 17th, 1972 I’m a sucker for romance. And the soapier the better, I say. I was surprised to find out earlier this week that I actually do have soapy limits, and Sandcastles...
View ArticleTelevision Madness at the Packard Campus Theater! Check out these two...
Oh. My. Gawd.This Friday, October 24th, the Library of Congress is showcasing two episodes of the excellent 1970s British series Thriller at the Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, VA. The whole...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Bad Ronald!
Bad Ronald turns 40 years old today! Can you believe it? (Don’t worry Ron, you still look like a teenager!) All these decades later, and he continues to resonate with horror fans and TV movie buffs....
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: The Cover Girl Murders (1993)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. What I like best about The Cover Girls Murders is that the vhs cover reminds...
View ArticleScream, Pretty Peggy: The Art
I was hoping to have time for a proper review of Scream, Pretty Peggy, which originally aired on November 24th, 1973 as an ABC Movie of the Week. I recently re-watched it and loved it just as much as...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: Death Benefit (1996)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. I was five minutes into the USA Original telefilm Death Benefit before I...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: Lighning Field (aka Lightning Incident,...
While I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the 1991 thriller The Lightning Field for its slow burn pace, gorgeous locales and somewhat intriguing story, it still comes across a tele-flick that was...
View ArticleA USA World Premiere Movie Project Twofer: Save the Drama for your Crazy Mama!
I can’t believe that it’s been almost a year since The Daily Grindhouse started their amazing retrospective on the USA World Premiere telefilm. I have been honored and, frankly, pretty ecstatic to have...
View ArticleChristmas Presents from MeTV!
Check it: MeTV released their new winter schedule recently, and the new additions are amazing... potentially bordering on the greatest thing that has ever happened!Starting January 1st, expect more...
View ArticleMust See Streaming TV Movie of the Week: A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
As an antidote to the tumultuous sixties, the original Brady Bunch series planted itself deeply into the roots of the fifties suburban dream as seen on shows like The Donna Reed Show and Leave it to...
View ArticleThe USA World Premiere Movie Project: Red Wind (1991)
This review has been posted in conjunction with the Daily Grindhouse's year long tribute to the USA World Premiere Movie. Although he didn’t really care for the neo-noir eroticism of the early...
View ArticleAt the Midnight Hour (1995)
Network: CBS Original Airdate: October 29, 1995 Awhile back I wrote about some of the more interesting romance movie series of the eighties and nineties (you can read my two-part post here and here)....
View ArticleGramps (aka Relative Fear, 1995)
Network: NBCOriginal Airdate: May 20th, 1995Fans of made for television movies know that actors like John Ritter and Andy Griffith often went against type in carefully chosen one-off roles. With the...
View ArticleThe Baxters (1979-1981)
When I think about the 1970s (which, as you might guess, is a lot), sometimes the words “Let’s rap” ring softly through my head. While that phrase may seem mawkishly silly by today’s standards, 70s...
View ArticleMust See Streaming TV Movie of the Week: Mrs. R - Death Among Friends (1975)
Network: NBC Original Airdate: May 20th, 1975 Without knowing much of the history behind the pilot telefilm Death Among Friends (the Mrs. R was added later), it would seem that NBC was hoping that...
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