Monsters and Matinees: When flying things sting in real life, 1970s bee films come to the rescue

They were cute little honey bees – just one or two fluttering around the walkway by my back stairs. Not an unexpected sight on a warm summer day and, knowing the importance of the pollinators, I left them alone. I should have looked closer. A few weeks later there was a swarm – OK, maybe ... Read full article

Carole and Chester, coming to the rescue

If I ever needed Carole Lombard (aided by Chester Morris), today is that day.To put it mildly, this is not the happiest of days, and 99 percent of you should know why. Curfews in hundreds of American municipalities, including both the city and county of Los Angeles. (I reside in an unincorporated pa... Read full article

Superman (1948, Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr), Chapter 8: Superman to the Rescue

Superman to the Rescue fails to feature one thing–Superman to the rescue. The cliffhanger resolution goes from sped-up film fistfight to Kryptonite gas filling a room. Tommy Bond saves himself–lucking out because apparently a convener belt is poorly designed–while Kirk Alyn’s Superman stumbl... Read full article

Silent Movie Bookshelf: Gentlemen to the Rescue by Kalton C. Lahue

Another tattered cover… Last time, I shared the biographical collection Ladies in Distress, now I will do the same for its follow-up, Gentlemen to the Rescue. This collection contains select biographies of silent era leading men. This book is long out-of-print but you can find a reading copy ... Read full article

March to Disney: The Rescuers in More Ways Than One

This is a series of posts this month wherein I will focus on Disney films. For more on my background with Disney films and about the timing of this focus please read the introductory post here. One of my more recent revisits in the Disney library were the two Rescuers films. There are a few interes... Read full article