Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
THE DIVINE LADY
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 13, 2024
For the last few weeks Turner Classic Movies has been showing a marathon of Oscar-nominated features. Most of these are films that I have seen over and over again, but TCM did happen to sneak in an obscure title: the 1929 THE DIVINE LADY, about the famous love affair between Lady Emma Hamilton read more
THE IMPATIENT MAIDEN
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 10, 2024
THE IMPATIENT MAIDEN, released in 1932 by Universal, is the next film James Whale directed after he made the 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. According to James Curtis' biography of Whale, Universal executive Carl Laemmle Jr. bought the rights to a salacious novel called THE IMPATIENT VIRGIN as an inte read more
TEPEPA
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 9, 2024
TEPEPA is a 1969 Euro Western, directed by Giulio Petroni (DEATH RIDES A HORSE) and co-written by Franco Solinas (THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS). The movie is set during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s. A dynamic rebel leader named Jose Maria Moran, also known as Tepepa (Tomas Milian) is sent read more
DUNE (Part Two)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 3, 2024
The second part of Denis Villeneuve's mammoth screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's famous novel is a true serious science-fiction/fantasy epic, and a welcome respite from the many Marvel clones clogging up today's theaters. DUNE Part Two deals with Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) becomi read more
THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE On Blu-ray From Vinegar Syndrome
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 2, 2024
Vinegar Syndrome has released another title from the classic era of Italian Gothic horror. THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE (original title L'ULTIMA PREDA DEL VAMPIRO) makes its Blu-ray debut. This movie forms an unofficial trilogy with fellow early 1960s Italian flicks THE VAMPIRE AND THE B read more
SPEED (1936)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 25, 2024
No, this isn't that movie with Keanu Reeves. This SPEED was made in 1936, and it was the very first leading role for James Stewart. The actor was under contract to MGM at the time, and the studio put him in a low-budget B-type of picture for his first starring turn. In SPEED Stewart plays read more
THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK On Blu-ray From Vinegar Syndrome
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 24, 2024
Vinegar Syndrome has released a super special edition of the famed Italian Gothic horror film THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK on 4K and Blu-ray. (For the purposes of this blog post, I will be reviewing the Blu-ray on this set, since I don't even have a 4K player. If there's anyone out there who woul read more
THE PERFECT KILLER
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 19, 2024
This is another Tubi discovery. THE PERFECT KILLER (original Italian title QUEL POMERIGGIO MALEDETTO) is a 1977 Italian-Spanish crime drama starring the legendary Lee Van Cleef. Van Cleef plays career criminal Harry Chapman, who in the beginning of the story gets nabbed during a robbery a read more
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS--"Beta Delta Gamma"
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 17, 2024
I recently purchased Vinegar Syndrome's special edition 4K/Blu-ray release of the Italian Gothic THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK, starring Barbara Steele. I intend to write a blog post on this release, but one thing I learned from the extras on it is that Barbara Steele had a connection to Alfred Hi read more
THE SAINT OF SECOND CHANCES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 12, 2024
THE SAINT OF SECOND CHANCES, directed by Jeff Malmberg and Morgan Neville, is a documentary concerning the life and times of independent baseball pioneer Mike Veeck. Mike Veeck is the son of legendary baseball executive and Hall of Fame inductee Bill Veeck. The beginning of the film detai read more
TANK FORCE (AKA NO TIME TO DIE)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 4, 2024
The last James Bond film, NO TIME TO DIE, was not a favorite of mine by any means. When its title was officially announced, I thought it was rather generic for a 007 movie. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the works of Ian Fleming....but I later found out that the title did have a read more
RED SUN
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 3, 2024
RED SUN technically qualifies as a Euro Western--it was filmed in Spain, at many locations that would be familiar to Spaghetti Western fans. The movie has an international cast, with Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress, and Alain Delon in the leading roles. RED SUN was directed by read more
ALBERT R.N. On Blu-ray From Cohen
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 2, 2024
ALBERT R.N. is a 1953 British WWII POW story, included on a Blu-ray disc along with THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM that has been recently released by the Cohen Media Group. Both films were directed by Lewis Gilbert, both are in black & white, and both pictures share many of the same cast & read more
SERGIO LEONE: THE ITALIAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 1, 2024
SERGIO LEONE: THE ITALIAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA is a 2022 documentary on the great filmmaker, written & directed by Francesco Zippel, and co-produced by the company run by two of Leone's children. I watched the film on the Max streaming channel. This documentary has a number of big nam read more
THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM On Blu-ray From Cohen
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 27, 2024
The Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber have released a double feature of British 1950s black & white WWII films directed by Lewis Gilbert. The movies are ALBERT R.N. and THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM, which I will be covering in this post. British director Lewis Gilbert had a long and di read more
THE CRIMINAL ACTS OF TOD SLAUGHTER On Blu-ray From Indicator
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 21, 2024
This is a fantastic four disc, eight movie set, dedicated to the British actor Tod Slaughter. Slaughter was referred to as "The Horror Man of Europe", but these films are really Victorian melodramas, while Slaughter himself doesn't play monsters in the traditional sense. He plays over-the-top read more
UMBRACLE On Blu-ray From Severin
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 20, 2024
My last post dealt with VAMPIR-CUADECUC, which Severin has put on a Blu-ray also containing UMBRACLE. Both films were directed by Spanish artist Pere Portabella, and both feature Christopher Lee, who is the main reason to watch these films. UMBRACLE has a lot in common with VAMPIR-CUADECU read more
VAMPIR-CUADECUC On Blu-ray From Severin
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 14, 2024
In 2023 Severin did not release a third THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE Blu-ray set, but they did make available two of Lee's most obscure appearances. VAMPIR-CUADECUC and UMBRACLE are a couple of almost undefinable productions directed by avant-garde Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella, and th read more
THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) On Blu-ray From Film Masters
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 13, 2024
The Film Masters Blu-ray release of THE TERROR (1963) contains a second disc with another famed public domain cult film: the original THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The production history of the original LITTLE SHOP has become a film geek legend. Roger Corman's ultra-cheap, ultra-quick black read more
ARIZONA COLT
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 7, 2024
One of the best things about the Tubi streaming channel is that it has a great selection of Euro Westerns, and for the most part these films are presented uncut and in their original aspect ratio. One Spaghetti Western recently added to Tubi is the 1966 ARIZONA COLT, starring one of the genre' read more