Showing posts with label 1960s movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Johnny Showtime: THE PINK PANTHER

 by JB

Readers who are more familiar with later iterations of Peter Seller’s famous Clouseau character might be surprised by the good Inspector’s first film appearance here. Readers already familiar with this first foray will still be mightily impressed by Kino-Lorber’s new 4K transfer of the film’s original Technirama negative.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Johnny Deadline: TONY ROME

 by JB

How did this peculiar bird fly under my radar for so long? This movie explains the behavior of every single one of my uncles.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Johnny Deadline: PAJAMA PARTY (1964)

 by JB

From the looks of it, you’d think this was the eighth or ninth entry in the Beach Party franchise. You would be wrong...

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Johnny California: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR in 4K

 by JB

Few figures in the history of film are more divisive than Jerry Lewis.
The Nutty Professor is widely considered to be his masterpiece.

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Celluloid Ramblings: WILLIAM CASTLE AT COLUMBIA, Vol. 1

by JB
This column is written in “Back and Forth-O,” a new process whereby the left-to-right motion of your eyeballs as you read the text WILL SUMMON GHOSTS TO YOUR EXACT LOCATION! See! Look behind you! AAUUUUUUGH! SCREEEEEEEEEE!

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Thrills, Chills, & Spills: THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI

by JB
It’s appropriate that Boris Karloff is featured in this last of the “Beach Party” movies, because it was Frankenstein-ed together from various pieces of other movies.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Thrills, Chills, & Spills: RETALIATION (Shima Wa Moratta)

by JB
This week I continue falling down the rabbit hole of 1960s Japanese crime films. By “rabbit hole,” I mean the place in my wallet where the money used to be and by “falling,” I mean “being impaled on a Samurai sword in the bathroom with all my blood spraying onto the glass shower door.”