Before flowers from the neighbor’s yard and boxes of melty chocolate, little boys were known to give Creepy Crawlers to the girls they had crushes on. Oh, don’t wrinkle your nose…nothing says “maybe we can CONTINUE READING…
“Somebody with a runny nose is gonna die.” Having already applied his bumbling shenanigans to one holiday in 1988’s Ernest Saves Christmas, slapstick neighborhood doofus Ernest P. Worrell set his sights on Halloween in 1991’s Ernest Scared CONTINUE READING…
“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each CONTINUE READING…
“I’m feelin’ hairy, and my teeth are mean,I got a weird complexion and I, I wanna scream!” A year after the big-screen version, Teen Wolf made its way to television as a cartoon. As in the film, CONTINUE READING…
“Marshall, Will, and Holly,On a routine expedition,Met the greatest earthquake ever known.High on the rapids, it struck their tiny raft,And plunged them down a thousand feet below,To the Land of the Lost.” As the theme CONTINUE READING…
“Fire burns Wood! Wood floats on Water! Water puts out Fire!” Battle Beasts finally gave us the answer to a question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: If animals were bred into CONTINUE READING…
When the Star Wars wave hit in the late 1970s, science fiction rode that crest back to the major media in a major way. Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century took most of the TV sci-fi glory, but CONTINUE READING…
Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the great one and Ricardo Montalban as her enemy. Another TV CONTINUE READING…
Marvel Comics’ famed webslinger returned to Saturday morning in 1981 with a pair of new companions. In this incarnation, Peter Parker was a college student at Empire State University, boarding with his Aunt May. While CONTINUE READING…
Backed by a techno theme song, Marvel Comics’ band of misunderstood mutant superheroes stormed into arcades in 1992. Konami had built a mini-franchise using licensed characters in side-scrolling fighting games—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons—and with CONTINUE READING…
They said it couldn’t be done. Steve Gerber’s comic book about a foul-tempered (fowl-tempered? No, that’s too easy), beer-guzzling, cigar-chomping duck simply wouldn’t translate to film. Not even Lea Thompson as the leader of an CONTINUE READING…
Deep in the corridors of the Hall of Justice resided some of DC Comics’ greatest superheroes: Superman, Aquaman, Batman & Robin, and Wonder Woman. Collectively, these crimefighters were known as the Justice League of America, based on the DC CONTINUE READING…
Gather ye ‘round, gather ye ‘round! Shoulder yourself in amongst the crowd that’s growing around the oven and take a gander through that glass…magic baked goods are transforming before your very eyes! We’re not talking CONTINUE READING…
We saw the future, and it changed color with heat. You practically couldn’t afford not to buy a HyperColor shirt. I mean, it changed color, right? That was like getting two shirts for the price of one. CONTINUE READING…
Every film lover has a ‘guilty pleasure,’ a movie one enjoys despite what popular opinion says about it. The designation has been applied to films as diverse as Grease and Plan 9 From Outer Space, but one film CONTINUE READING…
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