TFH Saturday Matinee
Live From Delta House – Belushi and Me
One of our favorite writers, Dennis Cozzalio, is with us again for today’s Saturday Matinee. Dennis, not coincidentally, presides over one of our favorite…
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Witchfinder General
The troubled young British director Michael Reeves was credited with only three films and then, just as his star was ascending, died…
TFH Saturday Matinee
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Next week at TFH we’re featuring a modest tribute to Bela! … Lugosi, of course. The films include Invisible Ghost (helmed by Gun…
TFH Saturday Matinee
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Next week at TFH features a trio of trippy films gathered together under the banner “Just Say No”. They include Requiem for…
TFH Saturday Matinee
By The Sword
Warning; this post is long… if you watch all the links, you’ll have an hour of entertainment. When I was 10, my school…
TFH Saturday Matinee
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
A group of scientists in the Antarctic rig an atomic blast that releases a dinosaur from its icy hibernation. Only one of…
TFH Saturday Matinee
Help!
Help!, the 1965 musical comedy directed by Richard Lester, stars Leo McKern as the venal Clang, a deranged cult leader and Victor…
TFH Saturday Matinee
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The current BBC production of Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch is a lifetime away from director Terence Fisher’s take on the great detective, The…
TFH Saturday Matinee
TFH Saturday Matinee – The Cyclops
Even for such a low budget movie, Bert Gordon’s THE CYCLOPS has an unusually hungry appearance. With its undernourished special effects, desolate…
TFH Saturday Matinee
TFH Saturday Matinee – Queen of Outer Space
During a routine assignment in outer space, stalwart space jockey Neil Patterson (Eric Fleming) and his trusty crew crash land on the…
TFH Saturday Matinee
TFH Saturday Matinee – The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
In Mad Magazine’s 1954 send-up of Alice In Wonderland, Alice finds herself once again surrounded by the nightmare inhabitants of Lewis Carroll’s…
TFH Saturday Matinee
TFH Saturday Matinee – The Court Jester
The Court Jester was a vanity project put together in 1956 by Danny Kaye’s own production company and, at nearly four million…