BEST OF FEBRUARY 2024

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end-of-year retrospective continues with this look at February’s Best.

FURIOUS (1984) – The Rhee Brothers star in one of the most joyously bad and disjointed martial arts movies of all time.

My review is HERE.

BALLADEER’S BLOG RANKS THE PRESIDENTS – And I do it the way that ANYONE trying to be objective would do it – by omitting the most recent presidents because there is still too much emotion surrounding the perception of such figures. Click HERE.

AUSTRALIA’S SUPERHEROES OF THE 1940s & 1950s – An examination of Atom-Girl, the Grey Domino, Jet Fury, the Blue Ghost, the Vesuvian and many more HERE.

MY TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE PAST FIFTY YEARS – Click HERE. Some expected titles plus a few surprises.

QUENTIN DURWARD (1971) – A French-German television series about Sir Walter Scott’s lesser-known swashbuckling hero. It was produced in the same spirit as Desert Crusader and The Flashing Blade. My review is HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE CONCLUSION OF JAMES MASSEY’S ADVENTURES (1714) – Click HERE.

MARVEL’S 1950s CHARACTERS – A look at Leopard Girl, Lo-Zar, Marvel Boy, Lorna the Jungle Queen and many more HERE.

AFTER THE THIN MAN – I examine the various differences between Dashiell Hammett’s original screenplay for the 1936 sequel to The Thin Man compared to what made it to the screen HERE. Some adult elements that Hollywood left out.

GINA CARANO: ROLES SHE WOULD BE GREAT IN – The daring starlet as Jirel of Joiry, Robert E. Howard’s Belit, the gambler-gunslinger Poker Alice and more. Explore it all HERE.

FLASH VS HIS ROGUES GALLERY – A look at the semi-annual assembly of Flash’s foes as they teamed up to take him down. This was almost up there with the JLA-JSA crossover stories for a time. I review the stories HERE.

IRON FIST: HIS FIRST EIGHT STORIES FROM THE 1970s – From K’un-Lun to New York City the kung-fu superhero takes on a variety of villains HERE.