by Blaise Majkowski | Mar 12, 2019 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Featured
Gather around kids, it’s Don Knotts time! Hands up if you remember everyone’s favorite nerd, starring in such classics as The Incredible Mr. Limpet and The Shakiest Gun in the West. I knew someone who counted The Ghost and Mr. Chicken among her favorite movies. But...
by Blaise Majkowski | Apr 12, 2018 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Newsletter
Hands up! — how many readers remember HL Childs’ toy store in Northampton? I was there on closing day and came across a massive “Thunderbirds Island” playset commanding an entire shelf. As you may recall, “Thunderbirds” was a British TV show featuring marionettes and...
by Blaise Majkowski | Mar 8, 2018 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Newsletter
A change of scenery is in store for this month’s column. We will leave the flickering screen of the cinema and head for the bright lights of Broadway. Yes, instead of a classically bad movie, I’m going to focus on a stage adaptation of a classic novel as captured live...
by Blaise Majkowski | Feb 8, 2018 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Film, Newsletter, Review
It may come as a surprise to my faithful readers that I actually own a few classy movies — notably, the well-regarded “Pink Panther” series starring the great Peter Sellers as Detective Inspector Clouseau. After Sellers’ death, the producers unwisely decided to try to...
by Blaise Majkowski | Jan 8, 2018 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Newsletter
It’s New Year’s Day. With no idea what to watch, I thought I’d go through one of my leaning towers of DVDs and see what I might come up with. Down at the musty bottom of one of the stacks, I found a trove of movies I’d never watched. My candidate for viewing: The...
