Written by Walter Greatshell

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FROM DREDD TO DROID: Judge Dredd and RoboCop

Back during the Reagan years there was a glut of violent action movies catering to folks who wanted less complicated heroes. The Sixties and...

Stefan BlitzMarch 20, 2013

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A BOOK BURNS IN CITRUSVILLE: Man-Thing vs. the Moral Majority

I was never that into superhero comics. As a little kid growing up in the Sixties and early Seventies, I started out reading Harvey...

Stefan BlitzMarch 7, 2013

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WIZARDS – The Original Avatar

Way back in February of 1977, just a few months before Star Wars came out, I remember my best friend and I went to...

Stefan BlitzFebruary 20, 2013

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Car Wars: THE GREAT RACE Revisited

Someone recently tweeted the question, “What’s your favorite movie sword-fight?” Well, of course the obvious answers all popped up straightaway: the duels in Star...

Stefan BlitzJanuary 25, 2013

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WHEN BOND GOT HIGH: Moonraker and the Space Race

At the end credits for the tenth Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, there was the usual little teaser for the next Bond...

Stefan BlitzJanuary 10, 2013

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GODZILLA GETS DIRTY: Art and the Smog Monster

I was a huge Godzilla fan as a kid. This was in the early ‘70s, so there were no videos, no DVDs, no electronic...

Stefan BlitzOctober 26, 2012

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Author WG Marshall Chats ENORMITY With Author Walter Greatshell!

Night Shade Books has recently released Enormity, the debut novel by W.G. Marshall. Enormity is the strange tale of an American working in Korea,...

Stefan BlitzFebruary 22, 2012

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DEATH BY SHOWMANSHIP: ALL THAT JAZZ AND THE STUNT MAN

As a teenage movie nut in LA, here was my formula for a perfect summer Sunday: 1) Take bus to Hollywood with best friend. ...

Stefan BlitzJune 9, 2011

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DARTH FAUST: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE REVISITED

When I think about what movies I loved as a teenager, I automatically go to the most obvious ones, the familiar stuff that anyone...

Stefan BlitzMay 20, 2011

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CHARLTON HESTON, ZOMBIE KILLER

Yeesh. I just watched The Omega Man for the first time in many years. I never much liked that movie, and it hasn’t improved...

Stefan BlitzMay 4, 2011

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Good Books, Bad Movies? THE SHINING and DUNE Reconsidered

When I was a teenager, I joined the Science Fiction Book Club. The books were dirt cheap, so I ordered a lot of them,...

Stefan BlitzApril 20, 2011

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ZEITGEIST IS A BITCH: AN AUTHOR’S LAMENT

zeitgeist noun, often capitalized ˈtsīt-ˌgīst, ˈzīt- Definition: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era Zeitgeist is a bitch. I wrote this...

Stefan BlitzMarch 23, 2011