Reviews A-Z

This page is under lots and lots of construction, but will eventually contain links to all my reviews at all websites, not just SBBN. Expect it to be finished in about 2029.

Film Reviews:
10 Laps to Go (1936)
Alan Partridge (2013)
Alibi (1929)
Are You Here (2013)
Army of Darkness (1992)
The Art of the Steal (2013)
Artists and Models (1937)
As High as the Sky (2012)
The Assassination Bureau (1968)
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
The Bad Sister (1931)
Band of Angels (1957)
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2014)
Berserk (1967)
The Best of Times (1986)
Big Bad Mama (1974)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big House (1930)
The Big Knife (1955)
The Big Trail (1930)
Big Trouble (1986)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
The Blackbird (1926)
The Boatniks (1970)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)
Bordertown (1935)
The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Bright Days Ahead (2013)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
Buio Omega (1979)
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Camille (1921)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Casino Royale (1967)
Chlorine (2013)
A Christmas Carol (1984)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
Condemned (2010, short)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Count Dracula (1977)
Cry Danger (1951)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Dark Horse (1932)
The Day the World Ended (1955)
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Deep End (1970)
The Devil Commands (1941)
The Discoverers (2012)
Doll Face (1946)
Double Take (2009)
Duck Soup (1933)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead II (1987)
The Faculty (1998)
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Female (1933)
Fitzwilly (1967)
Fog Over Frisco (1934)
The Footloose Heiress (1937)
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Front Page Woman (1935)
The Girl and Death (2013)
The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
Glickman (2013)
God’s Country and the Woman (1937)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies (2001)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Great Lie (1941)
The Green Slime (1968)
Gummo (1997)
Hell’s House (1932)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013)
His Hidden Purpose (1918)
Holiday (1930)
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Hotel Monterey (1972)
The House of Mirth (2000)
Housewife (1934)
I Live My Life (1935)
I Loved a Woman (1933)
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958) (second post)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
In This Our Life (1942)
Incubus (1966)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Isle of the Dead (1945)
It (1927)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jenifer (2005)
Jewel Robbery (1932)
Joanna (1968)
Just Imagine (1930)
Kansas City Bomber
The Keyhole (1933)
King David (1985)
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Lace (1984, miniseries)
Ladies’ Man (1931)
The Lady in White (1988)
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Let’s Kill Uncle (1966)
Leviathan (1989)
The Light Touch (1951)
Living on Velvet (1935)
The Locked Door (1929)
The Lodger (1944)
The Loved One (1965)
Madam Satan (1930)
The Maltese Bippy (1969)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
Mandalay (1934)
Maneater (2007)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Mitchell (1975)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Montana Moon (1930)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Murder By Television (1935)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Nana (1926)
The Nanny (1965)
Night Parade (1929)
No More Ladies (1935)
Okay Jose (1935)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Only Yesterday (1930)
Orgasmo (Paranoia) (1969)
The Oscar (1966)
Out of the Past (1947)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Party Girl (1930)
Pelts (2006)
Penelope (1966)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
Petulia (1968)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phil Spector (2013)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
The Prestige (2006)
Primal Fear (1996)
Proxy (2013)
The Racket (1928)
Radioland Murders (1994)
The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
Riding High (1950)
Roadblock (1951)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Rope (1948)
The Rose and the Jackal (1990)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Satan in High Heels (1962)
The Secret Garden (1949)
Secrets (1933)
The Seventh Sin (1957)
S#x Acts (2012)
Sex Kittens Go to College! (1960)
Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The She-Creature (1956)
Showing Up (2014)
The Silencers (1966)
Silent Rage (1982)
Sincerely Yours
Slither (2006)
Smart Money (1931)
Song One (2014)
Spies (1928)
Sporting Blood (1931)
Stage Fright (2014)
The Star (1952)
A Star is Born (1954)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Tasting Menu (2013)
That Certain Woman (1937)
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Three Wise Girls (1932) (update to come)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)
The Unholy Wife (1957)
The Unknown (1927)
You’ll Find Out (1940)
White Zombie (1932)
Whitewash (2013)
We Are the Best! (2013)
We Live Again (1934)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
West of Zanzibar and Kongo (1928 and 1932)
Wet Dreams (1974): “The Janitor”
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
The White Shadow (1924)
The Whole Truth (1958)
Wife Vs. Secretary (1936)
Wings (1927)
Winter Meeting (1948)
The Working Man (1933)

Film Features:
* A Very Brief History of a Very Famous Mask: The Captain Kirk mask used in Halloween and where it is today
* A Delightful Hour of Animated Shorts
* Update to Night Parade (1929): Ann Pennington, Oscar Levant and Carole Lombarde (and Heinie Conklin, for good measure)
* GLBT Characters in Early Hollywood, Part One and Part Two. Supplemental photo post here.
* Dynamic Duos: Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
* Portraits of Marie Prevost and other celebrities spotted in the background of The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Music:
* Matter of Fact, It’s All Dark: A personal article about the unlikely influence of Neil Diamond. I titled it with a line from a Pink Floyd song, just to confuse everyone.

Television:
* The Harvey Birdman episode “Turner Classic Birdman”
* In the Background: Eileen Detchon as Mrs. Potter in “M*A*S*H”
* The Venture Bros: “The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together”
* The Virginian: Bette Davis in “The Accomplice.”
* Wagon Train: Bette Davis in “The Elizabeth McQueeny Story.”

Book Reviews:
* Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece by Jason Bailey
* The Hammer Vault
* The Other Side of the Rainbow With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol by Mel Torme

Miscellaneous Articles:
* Gloria Swanson during her Bathing Beauty Days
* A Robert Nichols appreciation
* Diana Dors: photo gallery #1, photo gallery #2, photo gallery #3
* A Brief Biography of El Brendel
* Gloria Grahame
* The Hildegarde Withers murder mystery series of the 1930s.
* On the 2008 claim that London After Midnight (1927) was found. And, a followup.
* Promotional photo for The Only Thing (1925), which is frequently mislabeled as being “a Lon Chaney movie.”
* The Maltese Falcon prop
* The Perry Mason movie series
* Richard Simmons in Satyricon
* The Secret Life of Objects: A series of posts based on Mark Rappaport’s 2009 article for Rouge. (1) Female and Footlight Parade (2) Thoroughly Modern Millie (3) Night Parade and The Rich Are Always With Us
* Terence Morgan photo gallery
* An Una Merkel photo gallery and brief appreciation.
* The 2010 Shatnerthon introductory post, the master list with all the blogathon entries, final post.
* A biography of Regis Toomey.

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