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THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 01/20/12 — Andy Warhol, A Couple Of Slashers & Blaxploitation On P.C.P.
Jan 20th
A new year brings a new set of opportunities to check out vintage schlock. With that in mind, check out the latest installment of the AMG Dirty Dozen. The latest dozen reviews from Your Humble Reviewer’s All Movie Guide review repertoire (2002 vintage, to be specific) cover a diverse array of cult-cinema viewing material: there’s More >
THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 11/24/11 — Irwin Allen, Cleopatra Jones Goes East And A Midget Medicine Man
Nov 24th
Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s another dozen reviews from Your Humble Reviewer’s early days at All Movie Guide. In the spirit of a holiday buffet, it’s a diverse bill of fare: there’s a failed sequel to a disaster movie classic, an excellent sequel to a blaxploitation classic, Wes Craven’s bizarre first movie for a More >
THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 11/04/11: From Educational Movies To Oversexed Fishmen, Plus Guest Star Marty Feldman
Nov 4th
Welcome back to the AMG Dirty Dozen, in which Your Humble Reviewer unearths twelve reviews from his past a freelance reviewer for All Movie Guide. This time, we’ve got a Jonathan Demme movie about a 1970’s craze that doubles as an exploration of small town Americana, Your Humble Reviewer’s favorite James Bond movie and the More >
THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 09/09/11 — A Pimp, Some Ninjas, Lucio Fulci & Newbomb Turk
Sep 9th
Step back in time to the era when Your Humble Reviewer covered the catalog-title beat as a freelancer for All Movie Guide and enjoy another dozen oddities and cult faves ferreted out from video stores. This installment of the AMG includes a classic blaxploitation/kung-fu crossover, two ninja flicks from Cannon studios, one of Chuck Norris’s More >
Slapstick, Soul Music & Video Emporiums: A Guide To Schlockmania’s Contributions At Temple Of Schlock
Aug 19th
Your Humble Reviewer didn’t become a schlockmeister over night. He spent the better part of a decade honing his craft as a reviewer at a variety of sites before starting this blog. It all began with a gig at a site called Yesterdayland (now known as Retroland) and continued with a long stretch as a More >
NUEVO FANGO: Part 3 — Issue #296
Jul 22nd
As Your Humble Reviewer dove into researching and writing this site’s ongoing Fango Files series, he realized one of the great virtues of Fangoria in its early days was its devotion to giving the reader an education in classic horror. Sure, the issues would trumpet whatever the horror flick du jour was at the time More >
THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 07/15/11 — New York After The Apocalypse Plus James Bond Meets Kung Fu And Blaxploitation Galore
Jul 15th
The AMG Dirty Dozen is back for a nice mid-summer installment that offers a fun tour through exploitation cinema of yesteryear (plus the occasional mainstream crossover into exploitation trends). Blaxploitation is heavily represented — including an all-time Schlockmania fave in Penitentiary — and there is also a blackly comic horror gem in Deranged and a More >
Schlock Destinations: CULT FICTION DRIVE-IN 2011 — Day 2
Jun 10th
Day 1 of Cult Fiction was pleasant but it was merely an appetizer compared to the smörgåsbord that was Day 2. The organizers really outdid themselves on Saturday, stocking it with a dizzying array of Q&A sessions with cult movie stars for every taste and then topped it all off with a double-feature presented under More >
Schlock Destinations: CULT FICTION DRIVE-IN 2011 — Prelude and Day 1
Jun 7th
Recently, Your Humble Reviewer had the pleasure of attending the rarest of rare events: a cult movie convention that took place within a short drive’s distance from Schlockmania’s North Florida homebase. Said convention was called the Cult Fiction Drive-In and was held in Jacksonville at the Wyndham Riverwalk Hotel between May 20th and 22nd. The More >
THE AMG DIRTY DOZEN: 05/19/11 — A Comic Relief Monkey, A Horny Supercomputer and Some Nazi Zombies
May 19th
As is usually the case, this edition of the AMG Dirty Dozen offers a witches’ brew of celluloid escapism as it links up to twelve All Movie Guide reviews penned by Your Humble Reviewer way back in 2002. There’s the best of all drug-horror films in Blue Sunshine, a psycho-sexual thriller about a computer in More >
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