Another Bookstore Closing

Books 4 Less bookstore at the Upland Square shopping center has closed. It’s last day of operation was 7/27/14, My birthday oddly enough. I don’t know when the place opened, but i recall it being…

Kim Oh #5: REAL DANGEROUS FUN

Kim Oh #5: Real Dangerous Fun by K. W. Jeter (Editions Herodiade, 2014)   K. W. Jeter’s femme fatale is back again for another round in Kim Oh #5: Real Dangerous Fun. In a just…

Forgotten Film Festival

At Temple of Schlock I’ve got a guest review about the Forgotten Film Festival which I attended in Philadelphia. In October I plan on hitting the 24-Hour horror movie marathon and will be covering that…

The Assassin And The King (1968)

And another little obscurity from Italy, The Assassin And The King. Kerwin Matthews plays a government agent from the US who’s trying to protect a monarch from the middle east on tour in Europe. The US wants to work out an oil deal with him, but foreign agents have other ideas. Not a bad little film, just wish there was a better source print.

Spy Pit (1967)

Here’s a fun take on the usual Super Spy movie: have the hero be something other than the usual square-jawed Anglo. And it works. Roger Hanin Plays “Saint-Dominique” who travels all over the world trying…

Mr. Ten Percent (1968)

In Mr. Ten Percent, George Martin) (AKA Francisco Martínez Celeiro) stars as a rogue agent who steals from cooks, then returns the loot to the police for 10 percent of it’s original value. More of a…

Vienna Spy Hunt

Vienna Spy Hunt: a fun little German spy movie from 1965. Among the stars in this movie is Terrance Hill, who would go on to play the hero in the “Trinity” western movies.The plot: a…