“I’m a mad dog whose only concern is winning.” — Charles Barkley

We had a very impressive number of entries in this week’s “Loneliest Mile” giveaway at Thrilling Days of Yesteryear...and while I would like this to be a Tee Ball tournament and hand out copies of this Broadway’s My Beat collection (from Radio Spirits) to everybody—I have only the one.  It will soon be winging its…

Adventures in Roku

Let me just state at the start of this post...that when it comes to home entertainment, I’m a physical media disciple.  I like to own movies. I like to own TV shows.  From the time I bought my first VHS player in 1986 with a bonus I received from my then place of employment (despite my…

From the DVR: The Candidate (1972)

Political strategist Marvin Lucas (Peter Boyle) has been handed an assignment that would surely make a saner man run fast, run far.  The Democratic Party is anxious to field a candidate in the California race for U.S. Senator—but that means taking on a powerful Republican incumbent, three-time Capitol Hill veteran Crocker Jarmon (Don Porter).  The…

Adventures in Blu-ray: Phantom Lady (1944)

After a spat with the wife, civil engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) decides to have a little gin with his misery and bellies up to the bar in a dive called Anselmo’s.  He makes the acquaintance of a mysterious woman wearing a rather distinctive hat...and seeing that she’s just as despondent as he is, asks…

From Times Square to Columbus Circle

It’s been a few weeks since I rooted around in the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear prize closet for some swag to give away so I thought I’d set aside today to kick off another contest.  This week’s prize: an 8-CD Radio Spirits collection of Broadway’s My Beat (The Loneliest Mile), the 1949-54 detective drama starring…

“We hope you have a wonderful time…come back soon…”

My most vivid memory of a drive-in involves a movie that I didn’t actually see.  In the early 1970s, my father and I took a trip to Spelter, WV for the purpose of escorting my grandparents (on Dad’s side) to the Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins, a West Virginia celebration that gets underway in…

Adventures in Blu-ray: Stand-In (1937)

The agenda at a board meeting of prominent New York bank Pettypacker & Sons centers around the sale of Colossal Pictures—a Hollywood independent studio that financier Ivor Nassau (C. Henry Gordon) seeks to acquire for far below its $10,000,000 price tag.  Nassau has made president Fowler Pettypacker (Tully Marshall) an offer of five million, and the senior Pettypacker is seriously considering…

From the DVR: Coma (1978)

Dr. Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) is a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital and though this sort of thing should be discouraged because office romances are always complicated (if Chicago Med is any indication), she's dating the chief resident in surgery, Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas).  A longtime friend and college chum of Wheeler’s, Nancy…

“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.” — Art Rooney

No one was more surprised than I at the impressive number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Tough Luck!” giveaway; I can’t seem to find enough hours in the day to put up regular blog content in the manner that I would like, so it’s encouraging when folks write in to tell me they…