The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic

In the late 1980s subgenre of martial flick that I’ll call“fighting tournament” movies sprang into being.  They tend to follow a pretty stock formula:there’s a shady organization holding organized martial arts bouts, the herobecomes involved - usually...

           Horror comics came into being in earnest near the start of WWII and quickly becamehugely popular – and controversial.  Beforethey were effectively banned by the creation of the Comics Code Authority in1954, horror comics were being release...

Depending on your age, when you think of European horrorflicks you probably think of either the Italian zombie/cannibal era of the 70sand 80s or the unexpected Scandinavian horror boom of the last decade orso.  In the early 1970s, however, therewere...

            It turns out that writing moviesisn’t easy.  As anyone who reads this blog-or, more likely, actually watches movies- knows, there are a lot of pretty badones out there.  A bad movie in and ofitself is pretty innocuous.  After all,truly, truly...