December brings Balladeer’s Blog’s annual retrospective of my most popular blog posts. Here are January’s best.
WILDSIDE (1985) – This Forgotten Television item was a short-lived series that had the elite Old West secret agents appeal that The Wild, Wild West, The Barbary Coast, Bearcats and Brisco County, Jr. had.
Howard Rollins, William Smith and Meg Ryan were among the cast. Click HERE.
MABEL NORMAND: HER SILENT FILM COMEDIES FROM 1910-1915 – The pioneering comedienne who blazed cinematic trails and had a long collaboration with the iconic Fatty Arbuckle and Mack Sennett.
For my review of her movies like The Water Nymph, Bangville Police (Keystone Kops), Mabel Lost and Won, The Inventor’s Secret and – with Charlie Chaplin – Mabel’s Strange Predicament click HERE.
SUPERHEROES FROM INDIA – Reading superhero stories as a kid served as a gateway to some of my adult passions like mythology and opera, so I will always have a soft spot for them. This blog post looked at some Indian superheroes from the 1960s onward.
For my look at Ironclad, Kanga (left), Tiranga, Dragoness, Commando Dhruva, Spitfire and many more click HERE.
THE SILENT TWENTY-THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1916) – Submarine technology as well as filmmaking were still very young when this silent movie adapting the Jules Verne novel was made by Universal Studios.
Spectacular underwater footage and special effects in this effort which fused elements of the later Mysterious Island with 20,000 Leagues. Click HERE.
BRUCE CAMPBELL AND SAM RAIMI SHORT FILMS: 1974-1982 – Bruce, Sam and the rest of their Michigan Mafia when they were making youthful short films. My reviews of Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter, The Blind Waiter, Holding It, Attack of the Helping Hand and more HERE.
MARVEL SUPERHEROINES OF THE 1970s – My look at the likes of Dazzler, Ms. Marvel, Thundra, She-Hulk, Tigra and Shanna the She-Devil HERE.
A LOOK AT 1925 – A month-by-month examination of historical events, plus movies, gangsters on the loose and much, much more. Click HERE. Continue reading
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