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. Continue reading
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