Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2025

THUNDER ALLEY (1967) -- Movie Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 5/26/21   Currently watching: the 1967 follow-up to FIREBALL 500 and the last gasp of American-International's F...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

IF EVER I SEE YOU AGAIN -- Movie Review by Porfle

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(Written for Bumscorner.com in 2005, this review was reposted here in 2011 in light of later events involving the film's writer-prod...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Don Sullivan's 3 Classic Songs In "GIANT GILA MONSTER" (1959) (video)

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Everyone knows about Don Sullivan's classic "Mushroom Song." But he also sings a snappy acapella love ballad... ...and a ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

THE BEATLES: MADE ON MERSEYSIDE -- DVD Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 8/12/19   Writer-director Alan Byron (BILLY FURY: THE SOUND OF FURY, PUNK '76) opens his 2018 documentary THE B...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Elmer Bernstein's Early Sci-Fi/Horror Themes: "Robot Monster" and "Cat Women of the Moon" (1953) (video)

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Before scoring such classics as THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE GREAT ESCAPE, and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN... ...legendary film composer Elmer B...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

The Spoken Words That Caused A Sensation In "The Jazz Singer" (1927)(video)

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  When Warner Brothers made "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, it was a silent film like the others of its era. Except that the song...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

James Bond's "Man With The Golden Gun" Corkscrew Car Jump With NO Slide Whistle! (video)

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    The Roger Moore "James Bond" era played fast and loose with 007's serious image... ...even during some of its best and mos...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

The Day Corey Feldman Turned Into Michael Jackson, Part 2 (video)

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  Life is full of unexpected events. For example, you never know exactly when Corey Feldman is going to turn into Michael Jackson. But one t...
Friday, February 14, 2025

The Day Corey Feldman Became Michael Jackson (video)

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  Well, you know the old expression: There are days...and then there are days.  Some are good, some are bad. Some make sense, and some just ...
Monday, February 3, 2025

If Movies Rick-Rolled Their Audiences (video)

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    Sure, it happens online. But what if it happened while you were watching a movie for the first time and it was just getting to the good ...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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 Originally posted 8/20/2018   When actor-turned-filmmaker Del Tenney made a deal to direct some drive-in fodder for the teen crowd, one ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

FEEL THE NOISE -- Movie Review by Porfle

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  (NOTE: This review originally appeared online at Bumscorner.com in 2007.) Rob Vega (Omarion Grandberry, YOU GOT SERVED) is a Harlem te...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

TCHAIKOVSKY: THE TRAGIC LIFE OF A MUSICAL GENIUS -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 6/28/08   You can pretty much tell from the title TCHAIKOVSKY: THE TRAGIC LIFE OF A MUSICAL GENIUS (2007) whether or...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

PAGANINI HORROR -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 10/24/19   If it were possible to actually O.D. on a combination of so-bad-it's-good Italian horror cinema and ...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

THE ANGEL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON: LIVE AT THE UNION CHAPEL -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 2/1/09   "I had a dream that this guy was sentenced to death for attempting to commit suicide." He has a ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON -- Movie Review by Porfle

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(NOTE: This review originally appeared online in 2005.) "It was my fate to become famous. And, uh...also to be damned." ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

RICHARD SIMMONS: SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- DVD Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 11/2/17   I didn't grow up with Richard Simmons, but somehow it seems as though the eternally cheerful and prete...