Author: Shane Hnetka

31 Days Of B-Movie Horrors: Q

Q aka Q – The Winged Serpent was made in 1982 by director Larry Cohen after he was fired from another job. He had rented a hotel room in New York for a month and created this low budget horror so the room wouldn’t go...

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Sunday Matinee: Badlands

This will be the last Sunday Matinee for a while, starting Wednesday and for the entire month of October it’s another 31 Days of Horror. Sunday Matinee will return in November. Today’s Sunday Matinee is Terrence...

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Sunday Matinee: Goldfinger

50 years ago this week, the third James Bond movie, Goldfinger, was released into theatres in the U.K. The Bond films had been extremely popular but with this film, the series became a box office blockbuster. Based on the...

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Sunday Matinee: King Kong Escapes

Back in 1962 Toho managed to revive their Godzilla film series by pitting the big G against King Kong. Toho had licensed the character from RKO and after the success of King Kong vs. Godzilla Toho wanted to make another King...

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Sunday Matinee: Buried Movies Continued

In the latest issue of prairie dog, I have a top six list of buried movies, various films that have been suppressed for one reason or another. I couldn’t fit everything into a mere six film list so here’s one more...

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Sunday Matinee: Apocalypse Now

Man there’s a lot of classic movies celebrating anniversaries this year. And the film that broke Francis Ford Coppola mentally and financially is celebrating it’s 35th anniversary this year. Coppola started work on...

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Sunday Matinee: Lost Orson Welles

Citizen Kane wasn’t Orson Welles’ first movie, he had experimented with film before. In 1934 he co-directed an experimental short film in school called The Hearts of Age. In 1938 Welles and the Mercury Theatre was...

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