"Head Trauma," the new film from producer, director and writer Lance Weiler, was released on DVD on Sept. 26 and Weiler has avoide...

New England's great state fair is in town....here's some observations... WEST SPRINGFIELD - The mixing of agriculture, state pride,...

Just how do you view other states? Quick, take my lightning round quiz. If I say "Alabama," you would say? How about Wyoming? New...

New post at That's Thirty as well. Two very different films are featured in this week's DVD column. Beavis and Butt-head Do America ...

A fun but very dramatized bio pic, a blast from the 1980s and a movie that will still galvinize audiences 20 years after its release are in ...

A local note here...Now through Sept. 28, Holyoke Community College is featuring an exhibit titled "Shockers" in the Taber Art Gal...

I love radio. Yes, I know I sound like a throw-back to some younger people who view it as an antiquated delivery medium for music, but it r...

New post on That's Thirty...check it out.

I love a good horror film. It's the genre that led me into my interest - some would call it obsession - with movies. Recent horror film...

Remember when magazines had illustrations? I picked up this pulp magazine for $1 at a local flea market just for the cover. It's not the...

Hey, look what my father-in-law gave me! Eight mm and Super Eight mm movies ! Three minute cut-downs of feature-length movies! In the DVD a...

You know, there's too much going on in our lives. I just don't mean getting our jobs done every week, petting the puppy, driving the...

New post here today and the introduction to my Fleischer book is on the Made of Pen and Ink blog. Can Robin Williams find a good script? The...

Western Mass. readers who are also film fans should make a date to attend this free show. When the script calls for a film to be set in a bu...

I've started an experiment at a new blog titled Made of Pen and Ink. It's the first draft of my book on Max and Dave Fleischer, thei...

This week it's time to catch up with the torrent of DVD releases that are coming to a store near you. Magdelena's Brain In the inter...

I've meant to post something about our trip to Scotland Mary and I took in March, but haven't gotten around to it until one of our ...

Sometimes what I write here helps me construct my column for the newspapers I edit. Here's an example. You never know what is going to ...

And Carlos was a nice guy! The deputies of Reno 911! are back – on television and on DVD. The fourth season of the popular comic police s...

My wife and I have been on vacation this week and have been out of the state and away from computers for part of that time. Here are some ob...