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Become a VW Patron
In case you haven't seen it yet, there's a new addition to our Website directory that reads"Become A Patron." We thought this blog might be the best place to go into some greater detail.We know that...
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First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 180
We're here to fight those post-partum post-Halloween blues with your long-awaited First Look at VIDEO WATCHDOG 180! Here's the front cover... and for those of you who would like a generous preview peek...
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RIP Charles Herbert (1948-2015)
Before Billy Mumy came along, Charles Herbert (Saperstein) was the go-to child actor for just about any movie or TV series that might have interested me during the first 10 years of my life. He was...
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Mario Bava and Orson Welles - Collaborators!
The big news of the day comes from Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource, who thank Massimiliano Studer for the information: Mario Bava and Orson Welles worked together! This frame enlargement is...
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HELLEVATOR: It's Only A Game, It's Only A Game
I finally freed myself from the bonds of cable television some months ago, but thanks to Hulu and my trusty Apple TV, I've been able to keep tabs on the latest adventure of the Soska Sisters,...
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RIP Germán Robles, the Genii of Darkness (1929-2015)
Germán Robles was the very figurehead of Silver Age Mexican horror - and the first actor to portray a vampire with fangs, at least in films widely seen in our part of the world. He made his screen...
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Some Holiday Gift Book Suggestions
With the holidays rapidly approaching, I thought it might be a good time to recommend some of the best film-related books to have surfaced in the past year, because - never mind the propaganda we hear...
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RIP Carolyne Barry aka Carole Shelyne (1943 - 2015)
It was a great gimmick.It had certainly worked for Harold Lloyd, and indeed for Clark Kent - just a pair of round horn-rimmed glasses.In the early 1960s, a 21 year-old Brooklyn-born dancer named Carole...
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VW's Favorite Blu-ray Discs of 2015 - Editor's Choice
Simon MacCorkindale and John Mills in QUATERMASS.The following should not be mistaken for a list of my favorite films of 2015. Frankly, I didn't see enough new movies this past year to compile a proper...
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Wishing You A Happy Video Christmas
Last night, rather than watch another Christmas movie we've seen at least a dozen times, Donna and I turned to Hulu and watched a few Christmas episodes of some classic television series that we hadn't...
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First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 181 - in stores January 15!
... and shipping to subscribers NOW.Read more about it here.
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Goodbye 2015!
2015 was a difficult year for Donna and me, but I'm glad to say we survived it. I shouldn't accentuate the negative because the year was not without its highlights, its pleasures or its blessings. Top...
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Facing the Strange: David Bowie (1947-2016)
David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg's THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.Last Friday, as we all know, was David Bowie's 69th birthday. I had family plans that night, but the next day, I decided to spend some of my work...
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Blue-Eyed Ambition: FROM THE TERRACE (1960)
There is a moment in Mark Robson's FROM THE TERRACE, the moment that gave John O'Hara's novel its name, when its protagonist Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) first glimpses Mary St. John (Joanne Woodward)...
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First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 182
It flames its way to subscribers on February 15, and should arrive in bookstores by March 6. Available to preorder now. For a Free Preview of select contents, click here.
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Captain High At Your Service: RIP Paul Kantner (1941-2016)
The story goes that Cincinnati-born Martyn Buchwald, sporting the name Marty Balin as he closed out his days as a member of the Bay Area folk combo The Town Criers, began to spot members for his next...
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DEATH WALKS TWICE: Buy At Once
I just wrote to Arrow's Francesco Simeoni and Ewan Cant to congratulate them on the DEATH WALKS TWICE box set, a compendium of Luciano Ercoli's films DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS and DEATH WALKS AT...
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Sarno Retrospective Series Coming to Blu-ray!
SIN YOU SINNERS (1963).Joe Sarno's erotic masterpieces are being restored and coming to Blu-ray! Here's a press release issued today by Film Media, announcing an exciting new series of Sarno...
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First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 183
Ships to discerning subscribers April 18. In select stores May 6.Please note that our cover price will increased with this new issue - an adjustment long overdue - but there is still time to order this...
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Vote for the Rondo Awards! Before Midnight!
Oops!I was so focused on other social media that I completely neglected to mention here that VIDEO WATCHDOG has received five nominations for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award this year!Best...
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