BEST OF JUNE 2025

I’m continuing my annual end of year retrospective with this look at June’s best.

NATIONAL VCR DAY – I marked the day with this blog post reviewing 8 films from several genres and all released on video during the 1980s heyday of VCRs. Click HERE.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR: NEGLECTED BATTLES FROM MARCH AND APRIL 1777 – March: Overlooked battles in New York and New Jersey HERE.  April: Overlooked battles in Connecticut, New Jersey and off the coasts of Delaware and South Carolina. Click HERE.

COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM – Texas Southmost College HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Paris (1979-1980) – James Earl Jones starred in Steven Bochco’s show about police detective Woody Paris HERE.  The Witness (1960-1961) – Dramatized versions of how trials might have gone against figures like John Dillinger, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Mayor Jimmy Walker and more HERE.   The Devlin Connection (1982) – Rock Hudson plays a detective who works as a private investigator alongside his long-lost son Jack Scalia HERE.

COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM – Truckee Meadows Community College HERE. 

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.’s SWASHBUCKLER FILMS – The son of THE swashbuckler from Silent Movies appeared in several of his own, like The Corsican Brothers, Sinbad the Sailor, The Fighting O’Flynn and more. I reviewed all of them HERE.

ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES – My reviews of the fragmentary remains of ancient Greek comedies from hundreds of years B.C. Plays like Poleis HERE, Callipides HERE, and Cothurnus HERE.

D-DAY AND OTHER HISTORICAL EVENTS FROM JUNE SIXTH – I looked at that date’s events from various wars, scientific progress, disasters like fires and much, much more. Click HERE.  

THIRTEEN NEGLECTED HEAVY METAL HORROR FILMS OF THE EIGHTIES – From well-known movies like Hard Rock Zombies and Trick or Treat to more obscure items like Blodaren and Paganini Horror. Just click HERE.

SUPERHERO WEDDINGS FROM MARVEL COMICS – Mr. Fantastic & Invisible Woman, the Wasp & Yellowjacket, Quicksilver & Crystal, the Scarlet Witch & the Vision, plus Mantis and a Cotati. They’re all HERE.

COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM: UNITED INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE – Click HERE.

MORE FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Young Rebels (1970-1971) – Teen warriors on the side of the American forces during the Revolutionary War, starring Louis Gossett, Jr. Click HERE, and Blue Light (1966) – A sophisticated spy series starring Robert Goulet on deadly adventures in Nazi Germany. Click HERE.

THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT – I continued marking the 40th anniversary year of this 1985-1987 pre-MST3K Bad Movie Show. Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) HERE and Frogs (1972) HERE.

ROCK HUDSON’S SWASHBUCKLER MOVIES – This Hollywood titan managed to star in a few swashbucklers himself, like Sea Devils (1953), Captain Lightfoot (1955), The Golden Blade (1953) and Bengal Brigade (1954). I reviewed them all HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR (1887) – A handful of people get reduced to nearly microscopic size, then become stranded inside a man’s body and must use scientific knowledge to navigate their way through his anatomy to reach freedom. Click HERE.

MISS LIBERTY: REVOLUTIONARY WAR SUPERHEROINE – DC’s neglected heroine introduced in a 1960s story. Click HERE.

MARVEL COMICS’ 1940s SUPERHEROINES – I looked at Blonde Phantom, Miss Patriot, Sun Girl, Silver Scorpion, Golden Girl, the original, supernatural Black Widow and more HERE.

MARVEL CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS – A 1982 miniseries pitting nearly every single one of the company’s characters against each other in a global conflict. Click HERE.

CAPTAIN MORS THE AIR PIRATE – More text stories about Germany’s 1908-1911 Dime Novel/ Pulp Hero and his sci-fi adventures. Stories 41-45 HERE, 46-50 HERE, and 51-55 HERE.  

MOSES CLEAVELAND – He was a Revolutionary War Veteran and the man that (with altered spelling) Cleveland, OH was named after. Click HERE.

EVERYONE BELIEVES THEY ARE ON “THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY” – Click HERE.