CINEMA RETRO NO. 27 NOW SHIPPING!

Now available for ordering (and showing up soon in your local comic shop's box if you ordered from Diamond Previews oh-so-many months ago) is the latest issue of CINEMA RETRO. This issue promises to have much more monster goodness than the previous couple of issues -- perhaps because of the Halloween season?

Here is the lineup from the CINEMA RETRO website:

HIGHLIGHTS OF ISSUE #27 INCLUDE:

• Don L. Stradley examines the dramatic life and career of Lolita star Sue Lyon
• John Exshaw's unpublished interview with screen legend Peter Cushing
• Adrian Smith interviews Hugh Hudson, director of Revolution and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• Dean Brierly looks at classic Japanese crime movies
• Stephen C. Jilks celebrates the British werewolf films.
• David Savage examines Liz Taylor's little-seen, late career bizarro cult movie The Driver's Seat
• Howard Hughes continues his history of Oakmont Productions with Submarine X-1 starring James Caan and reviews the long-forgotten electric rock Western Zachariah
• Paul Thomson provides in-depth coverage of the Amicus Edgar Rice Burroughs film adaptations The Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth's Core and The People That Time Forgot 
• Remembering  Ray Harryhausen: a personal tribute by Mark Mawston
• Raymond Benson's top ten films of 1986
• Lee Pfeiffer's Take Two column looks back on The Valachi Papers starring Charles Bronson
• Burt Reynolds underrated dark comedy The End is re-evaluated by Tim Greaves
• Gareth Owen's Pinewood Past column features Reach for the Sky starring Kenneth More
• Plus the latest film book, soundtrack and DVD reviews

And here are a few page samples. To order or subscribe to CINEMA RETRO, just click on the cover image on the sidebar to the right of this blogroll.

FAMOUS MONSTERS NO. 270 NOW ON SALE

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #270 has been announced as released for sale by Captain Company. This issue's theme is the masked wrestler heroes from Mexico.

Here is the info offered on FM's website:

"Viva La Lucha! In the history of cinema, no man has battled more classic monsters than the masked luchador, El Santo. This Halloween, Famous Monsters travels to Mexico to unlock the myth and mysteries behind some of film's greatest monster hunters and their movies: El Santo, Mil Mascaras, Blue Demon, Tinieblas, and more. . . The Luchadors! Plus, an exclusive FM interview with WWE Superstar CM Punk! The origins of Freddy's infamous glove, 45 years of Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and so much more! Featuring EL SANTO cover by Terry Wolfinger."

To order your copy of the newest FM, click on the cover image on the sidebar.

HITCH SPEAKS HIS MIND ABOUT TV

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