2016 Centennials

I had a lot of fun in 2014 watching each of the 36 films that Charlie Chaplin made in 1914 (well, the 35 that still exist, at least). What made it most fun was watching them a hundred years to the day from their original release, so seeing them at the rate that the audiences of the time did.

A neat side effect was that I kept on task and so inherently had a book ready to proof and edit by the end of the year, so I conjured up a similar project. This one wouldn't involve the centennials of films but of people, working to the same sort of structure.

So, here's 2016 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim was to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I collated these reviews into a book, A Hundred in 2016, which won the Alan Black Cirque du Livre Book of the Festival in 2017.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (19 Dec 2016)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde	1971	5	5	Roy Ward Baker	IMDb

All 2018 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
10 Rillington Place	1971	7	6	Richard Fleischer	IMDb
23 Paces to Baker Street	1956	5	5	Henry Hathaway	IMDb
Angel Baby	1961	5	5	Paul Wendkos	IMDb
Babies for Sale	1940	5	5	Charles Barton	IMDb
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend	1949	4	4	Preston Sturges	IMDb
Behold a Pale Horse	1964	4	4	Fred Zinnemann	IMDb
The Brute Man	1946	4	4	Jean Yarbrough	IMDb
Bwana Devil	1952	3	3	Arch Oboler	IMDb
Carry On... Up the Khyber	1968	6	5	Gerald Thomas	IMDb
Curse of the Queerwolf	1988	5	4	Mark Pirro	IMDb
The Curse of the Werewolf	1961	5	5	Terence Fisher	IMDb
Dance of the Vampires	1967	5	4	Roman Polanski	IMDb
The Dark Eyes of London	1939	5	5	Walter Summers	IMDb
Death Car on the Freeway	1979	4	4	Hal Needham	IMDb
Deathtrap	1982	6	6	Sidney Lumet	IMDb
Doctor Syn	1937	5	5	Roy William Neill	IMDb
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine	1965	4	4	Norman Taurog	IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde	1971	5	5	Roy Ward Baker	IMDb
The Ghost Breakers	1940	5	5	George Marshall	IMDb
Hellzapoppin'	1941	6	5	H. C. Potter	IMDb
Horrors of the Black Museum	1959	5	5	Arthur Crabtree	IMDb
The Inheritance	1962	6	6	Masaki Kobayashi	IMDb
The Iroquois Trail	1950	4	4	Phil Karlson	IMDb
Johnny O'Clock	1947	4	4	Robert Rossen	IMDb
Lady in a Cage	1964	5	6	Walter Grauman	IMDb
The Lost World	1960	3	3	Irwin Allen	IMDb
The Night of the Grizzly	1966	5	4	Joseph Pevney	IMDb
Postal Inspector	1936	4	4	Otto Brower	IMDb
Psychout for Murder	1969	5	5	Edward Ross	IMDb
The Shiralee	1957	5	5	Leslie Norman	IMDb
Skidoo	1968	2	2	Otto Preminger	IMDb
The Spiral Staircase	1945	6	6	Robert Siodmak	IMDb
The Tattered Dress	1957	6	5	Jack Arnold	IMDb
Terror in a Texas Town	1958	6	5	Joseph H. Lewis	IMDb
The Villain	1979	3	4	Hal Needham	IMDb

2017 Centennials

I had so much fun last year celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, that I knew I had to continue in 2017.

So, here's my Centennials 2017 project.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2017, to be released at the beginning of 2018.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (22 Dec 2017)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb

All 2017 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
5 Fingers	1952	6	5	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	IMDb
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.	1953	5	6	Roy Rowland	IMDb
Behind Locked Doors	1948	4	4	Budd Boetticher	IMDb
Blanche Fury	1948	5	5	Marc Allégret	IMDb
Blood on the Moon	1948	5	5	Robert Wise	IMDb
The Blue Veil	1951	5	5	Curtis Bernhardt	IMDb
Chicken Every Sunday	1949	5	5	George Seaton	IMDb
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?	1968	2	2	Don Weis	IMDb
Emperor of the North Pole	1973	5	5	Robert Aldrich	IMDb
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery	1966	4	4	Frank Launder & Sidney Gilliat	IMDb
Helter Skelter	1949	4	4	Ralph Thomas	IMDb
Hotel Berlin	1945	6	6	Peter Godfrey	IMDb
It Always Rains on Sunday	1947	6	6	Robert Hamer	IMDb
The Leopard Man	1943	6	6	Jacques Tourneur	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb
The Naked Kiss	1964	6	6	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
The Night Walker	1964	5	5	William Castle	IMDb
O, My Darling Clementine	1943	4	4	Frank McDonald	IMDb
Pool of London	1951	6	5	Basil Dearden	IMDb
The Ringer	1952	5	5	Guy Hamilton	IMDb
Santo vs. The Vampire Women	1962	5	5	Alfonso Corona Blake	IMDb
Stay Hungry	1976	5	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb
That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	6	5	Luis Buñuel	IMDb
The Time Travelers	1964	5	5	Ib Melchior	IMDb

2018 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. Here I am for the 2018 edition, year three for me on this project.

So, here's 2018 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2018, to be released at the beginning of 2019.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Golden Boy	1939	4	4	Rouben Mamoulian	IMDb

All 2018 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
All Through the Night	1942	5	5	Vincent Sherman	IMDb
The Baby	1973	5	5	Ted Post	IMDb
The Bigamist	1953	6	6	Ida Lupino	IMDb
The Girl Hunters	1963	5	5	Roy Rowland	IMDb
The Glass Web	1953	5	5	Jack Arnold	IMDb
Golden Boy	1939	4	4	Rouben Mamoulian	IMDb
Home of the Brave	1949	6	5	Mark Robson	IMDb
The Last Page	1952	5	5	Terence Fisher	IMDb
The Lineup	1958	6	6	Don Siegel	IMDb
The Magnetic Monster	1953	5	5	Curt Siodmak	IMDb

2019 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. I'm enjoying this series, so I'm back for the 2019 edition, year four for me.

So, here's 2019 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2019, to be released at the beginning of 2020.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (18 Feb 2019)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
I Died a Thousand Times	1955	4	4	Stuart Heisler	IMDb

All 2019 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Abominable Snowman	1957	5	4	Val Guest	IMDb
The Big Circus	1959	4	4	Joseph M. Newman	IMDb
House of Bamboo	1955	5	5	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
I Died a Thousand Times	1955	4	4	Stuart Heisler	IMDb
I’ve Lived Before	1956	4	4	Richard Bartlett	IMDb
Night Train to Mundo Fine	1966	1	1	Coleman Francis	IMDb
Noose	1948	5	5	Edmond T. Gréville	IMDb
Our Man in Havana	1959	6	6	Carol Reed	IMDb

2020 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. I'm enjoying this series, so I'm back for the 2020 edition, year five for me. Let's see if I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2020 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2020, to be released at the beginning of 2021. Hopefully.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (16 May 2020)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Hell is Empty	1967	4	4	John Ainsworth	IMDb

All 2020 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	1975	4	3	Dean Hargrove	IMDb
Vicki	1953	6	5	Harry Horner	IMDb
Buck Rogers	1939	3	3	Ford Beebe & Saul A. Goodkind	IMDb
Gunfight at Comanche Creek	1963	5	5	Frank McDonald	IMDb
Nights of Cabiria	1957	7	7	Federico Fellini	IMDb
Sorcerer	1977	6	6	William Friedkin	IMDb
Hell is Empty	1967	4	4	John Ainsworth	IMDb

2021 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and four years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year six, the 2021 edition. Fingers crossed that I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2021 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2021, to be released at the beginning of 2022. Hopefully.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (19 Feb 2021)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Klondike Kate	1943	4	4	William Castle	IMDb

All 2021 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Clash by Night	1963	5	5	Montgomery Tully	IMDb
Fort Massacre	1958	4	4	Joseph M. Newman	IMDb
Gang War	1958	4	4	Gene Fowler Jr.	IMDb
Happy Go Lovely	1951	5	5	H. Bruce Humberstone	IMDb
Klondike Kate	1943	4	4	William Castle	IMDb
The Mole People	1956	4	4	Virgil Vogel	IMDb
Scandal Sheet	1952	5	5	Phillip Karlson	IMDb

2022 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and five years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year seven, the 2022 edition. Fingers crossed that I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2022 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2022, to be released at the beginning of 2023. Hopefully.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (21 Jan 2022)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Train	1964	6	5	John Frankenheimer	IMDb

All 2022 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Lisa and the Devil	1973	6	5	Mario Bava	IMDb
Reprisal!	1956	4	4	George Sherman	IMDb
The Train	1964	6	5	John Frankenheimer	IMDb

2023 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and six years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year eight, the 2023 edition, on a serious year to get the film side of Apocalypse Later in balance with the book and music reviews I'm doing well with.

So, here's 2023 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2023, to be released at the beginning of 2024. At least that's the plan.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (28 Nov 2023)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Return of the Living Dead	1985	5	5	Dan O’Bannon	IMDb

All 2023 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
An Angel for Satan	1966	5	5	Camillo Mastrocinque	IMDb
The Glass Wall	1953	6	6	Maxwell Shane	IMDb
The Guilty	1947	5	5	John Reinhardt	IMDb
The Man in the Glass Booth	1975	6	6	Arthur Hiller	IMDb
Middle of the Night	1959	6	6	Delbert Mann	IMDb
The Night We Got the Bird	1961	4	4	Darcy Conyers	IMDb
The One-Armed Swordsman	1967	5	5	Cheh Chang	IMDb
One Way Pendulum	1965	4	4	Peter Yates	IMDb
The Return of the Living Dead	1985	5	5	Dan O’Bannon	IMDb
Smokescreen	1964	5	-	Jim O’Connolly	IMDb
Storm Over Tibet	1952	5	5	Andrew Marton	IMDb
What’s Buzzin’, Cousin?	1943	3	3	Charles Barton	IMDb
When a Stranger Calls	1979	6	5	Fred Walton	IMDb

2024 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, six years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way and a much more productive shot at it last year. This is year nine, for 2024, when I don't have any events to run so ought to finish up on time and publish.

So, here's 2024 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2024, to be released at the beginning of 2025. At least that's the plan.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (2 May 2024)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
I Bury the Living	1958	7	7	Albert Band	IMDb

All 2023 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Brute	1953	6	5	Luis Buñuel	IMDb
I Bury the Living	1958	7	7	Albert Band	IMDb
The Killers	1964	5	5	Donald Siegel	IMDb
Two for the Road	1967	6	5	Stanley Donen	IMDb

Cinematic Hell

Not all movies are created equal. Welcome to Cinematic Hell.

During 2010 I'm working through the greatest movies of all time, two hundred and fifty of them. Each week of the year I'll be posting reviews of five movies from the IMDb Top 250 List, but that creates something of an imbalance on a blog where I review the good, the bad and the ugly.

If the IMDb Top 250 movies are the good and there's plenty on here already to count as the bad, that leaves the ugly. That's what this page is for.

Each week I'll also be writing a review of one of the worst movies of all time for the awesome folks at Cinema Head Cheese and then indexing them here too as premiere examples of Cinematic Hell. I'm grateful to Kevin, Jeff and David for the privilege. Please check out their site and the many, many other wonderful things they do. Go buy a copy of Blown for starters.

Here are my reviews, along with ratings from my wife and I and links to each film's page at IMDb. Read these reviews at your peril! You have been warned!

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

This Week's Review (Week 43: 3 Nov 2010)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy	1958	2	2	Rafael Portillo	IMDb

All Cinematic Hell Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Beast of Yucca Flats	1961	1	1	Coleman Francis	IMDb
Blood Feast	1963	2	2	Herschell Gordon Lewis	IMDb
Blood Freak	1972	1	1	Steve Hawkes & Brad Grinter	IMDb
The Brainiac	1962	2	2	Chano Urueta	IMDb
The Brain from Planet Arous	1957	3	3	Nathan Hertz	IMDb
The Brain That Wouldn't Die	1962	3	3	Joseph Green	IMDb
Chained for Life	1951	2	2	Harry L. Fraser	IMDb
Child Bride	1938	2	2	Harry J. Revier	IMDb
The Corpse Grinders	1971	3	2	Ted V. Mikels	IMDb
The Creeping Terror	1964	1	1	A. J. Nelson	IMDb
Criminally Insane	1975	2	2	Nick Philips	IMDb
The Crippled Masters	1979	3	3	Kei Law	IMDb
Devil Monster	1946	1	1	S. Edwin Graham	IMDb
Double Agent 73	1974	1	1	Doris Wishman	IMDb
Eegah	1962	1	1	Nicholas Meriwether	IMDb
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death	1980	1	1	Matthew Mallinson	IMDb
The Giant Gila Monster	1959	3	3	Ray Kellogg	IMDb
Hercules Against the Moon Men	1964	2	2	Giacomo Gentilomo	IMDb
The Horrors of Spider Island	1960	1	1	Jaime Nolan	IMDb
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter	1966	3	3	William Beaudine	IMDb
King Kong vs Godzilla	1962	2	2	Inishiro Honda	IMDb
Life Returns	1935	1	1	Eugen Frenke	IMDb
Maniac	1934	2	1	Dwain Esper	IMDb
Manos: The Hands of Fate	1966	1	1	Harold P. Warren	IMDb
Mesa of Lost Women	1953	2	2	Herbert Tevos & Ron Ormond	IMDb
The Monster of Camp Sunshine	1964	3	3	Ferenc Leroget	IMDb
Monstrosity	1964	2	3	Joseph Mascelli	IMDb
Plan 9 from Outer Space	1959	1	1	Edward D. Wood Jr.	IMDb
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo	1966	1	1	Ray Dennis Steckler	IMDb
Reefer Madness	1936	3	3	Louis J. Gasnier	IMDb
Robot Monster	1953	2	2	Phil Tucker	IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy	1958	2	2	Rafael Portillo	IMDb
Santa Claus	1959	1	1	René Cardona	IMDb
Tentacles	1977	2	2	Oliver Hellman	IMDb
The Terror of Tiny Town	1938	3	3	Sam Newfield	IMDb
Test Tube Babies	1948	1	2	W. Merle Connell	IMDb
They Saved Hitler's Brain	1976	1	1	David Bradley	IMDb
Track of the Moon Beast	1976	2	3	Dick Ashe	IMDb
White Pongo	1945	3	3	Sam Newfield	IMDb
The Wild Women of Wongo	1958	2	2	James L. Wolcott	IMDb
The Wild World of Batwoman	1966	1	1	Jerry Warren	IMDb
Zaat	1975	1	1	Don Barton	IMDb
Zontar: The Thing from Venus	1966	1	1	Larry Buchanan	IMDb

2025 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, six years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way and a much more productive shot at it in 2023. 2024 should have been a good year but life kicked me in the ass, so it didn't plan out. This is year ten, for 2025, when hopefully nothing will stand in the way of me meeting my self-imposed deadlines. I'm also changing the format from book to zine, which should make it easier for me to stay on track and publish on time.

So, here's 2025 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a zine, A Hundred in 2025, to be released at the beginning of 2026. At least that's the plan.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (7 Mar 2025)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
No Way to Treat a Lady	1968	6	6	Jack Smight	IMDb

All 2023 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Big Gundown	1967	7	6	Sergio Sollima	IMDb
Slap Shot	1977	6	6	George Roy Hill	IMDb
A Raisin in the Sun	1961	7	7	Daniel Petrie	IMDb
Missing	1982	6	6	Costa-Gavras	IMDb
That Certain Summer	1972	6	5	Lamont Johnson	IMDb
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	1974	5	5	Michael Cimino	IMDb
Images	1972	5	5	Robert Altman	IMDb
Cross of Iron	1977	6	5	Sam Peckinpah	IMDb
Cash on Demand	1961	6	6	Quentin Lawrence	IMDb
No Way to Treat a Lady	1968	6	6	Jack Smight	IMDb

Dry Heat Obscurities

Everyone knows that they've been making westerns in Arizona since time began, but we've been shooting other genre flicks here for a long time too and many of those seem to have been unjustly forgotten.

So here's my Dry Heat Obscurities project, in which I take a look back at genre features which were shot entirely or, at least, predominantly in Arizona.

I'm covering the films themselves, of course, and the people who made them (who are surprisingly often people that you've heard of), but I'm also taking a good look at the locations they used. Hopefully, when I hit a particular point in the project, I'll be able to travel around the state to get some photos of what they look like today, decades on.

I'm going to review a new dry heat obscurity every other week, starting in 2017, to alternate with my Weird Wednesdays project.

Note: my reviews of Violent Saturday and Kingdom of the Spiders predate this project, so I'll revisit them at some point.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
C. C. & Company	1970	4	4	Seymour Robbie	IMDb

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Angel Unchained	1970	5	4	Lee Madden	IMDb
Captain Newman, M.D.	1963	5	5	David Miller	IMDb
C. C. & Company	1970	4	4	Seymour Robbie	IMDb
Devil's Angels	1967	4	4	Daniel Haller	IMDb
Edge of Eternity	1959	4	5	Donald Siegel	IMDb
Kingdom of the Spiders	1977	5	5	John 'Bud' Cardos	IMDb
Shotgun Wedding	1963	3	2	Boris Petroff	IMDb
Violent Saturday	1955	5	5	Richard Fleischer	IMDb

The First Thirty

Each third issue of the Apocalypse Later zine will be dedicated to film and many of those are part of a series called The First Thirty. The concept is to look at how major filmmakers started out their careers by reviewing each of their first thirty films, in order. I'll post the reviews here at Apocalypse Later Film but they'll be available in print too in a quarterly zine, each dedicated to a single name.

So far, I've completed the First Thirty of Nicolas Cage, Pam Grier and Vincent Price and I've started on Michelle Yeoh and Jack Nicholson. The completed zines can be read at Apocalypse Later Press and bought in full colour print from Amazon.

Nicolas Cage | Pam Grier | Jack Nicholson | Vincent Price | Michelle Yeoh

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (2 Mar 2025)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Five Easy Pieces	1970	6	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb

Nicolas Cage

Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Best of Times	1981	3	3	Don Mischer	IMDb
Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982	6	5	Amy Heckerling	IMDb
Valley Girl	1983	5	5	Martha Coolidge	IMDb
Rumble Fish	1983	5	5	Francis Coppola	IMDb
Racing with the Moon	1984	5	5	Richard Benjamin	IMDb
The Cotton Club	1984	6	6	Francis Coppola	IMDb
Birdy	1984	5	5	Alan Parker	IMDb
The Boy in Blue	1986	3	4	Charles Jarrott	IMDb
Peggy Sue Got Married	1986	5	5	Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
Raising Arizona	1987	6	6	Joel Coen	IMDb
Moonstruck	1987	6	6	Norman Jewison	IMDb
Vampire’s Kiss	1988	5	5	Robert Bierman	IMDb
Never on Tuesday	1988	4	4	Adam Rifkin	IMDb
Time to Kill	1989	5	5	Giuliano Montaldo	IMDb
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted	1990	4	4	David Lynch	IMDb
Wild at Heart	1990	5	5	David Lynch	IMDb
Fire Birds	1990	4	4	David Green	IMDb
Zandalee	1991	2	3	Sam Pillsbury	IMDb
Honeymoon in Vegas	1992	5	5	Andrew Bergman	IMDb
Amos & Andrew	1993	4	4	E. Max Frye	IMDb
Red Rock West	1993	6	5	John Dahl	IMDb
Deadfall	1993	2	3	Christopher Coppola	IMDb
Guarding Tess	1994	5	5	Hugh Wilson	IMDb
It Could Happen to You	1994	6	6	Andrew Bergman	IMDb
Trapped in Paradise	1994	5	5	George Gallo	IMDb
Kiss of Death	1995	5	5	Barbet Schroeder	IMDb
Leaving Las Vegas	1995	6	6	Mike Figgis	IMDb
The Rock	1996	5	5	Michael Bay	IMDb
Con Air	1997	5	6	Simon West	IMDb
Face/Off	1997	6	6	John Woo	IMDb

Pam Grier

Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	1970	5	5	Russ Meyer	IMDb
The Big Doll House	1971	4	4	Jack Hill	IMDb
Women in Cages	1971	5	5	Gerry de Leon	IMDb
The Twilight People	1972	4	-	Eddie Romero	IMDb
Cool Breeze	1972	4	4	Barry Pollack	IMDb
The Big Bird Cage	1972	5	5	Jack Hill	IMDb
Hit Man	1972	4	4	George Armitage	IMDb
Black Mama White Mama	1973	5	5	Eddie Romero	IMDb
Coffy	1973	6	5	Jack Hill	IMDb
Scream Blacula Scream	1973	4	4	Bob Kelljan	IMDb
The Arena	1974	5	5	Steve Carver	IMDb
Foxy Brown	1974	5	5	Jack Hill	IMDb
Sheba, Baby	1975	3	3	William Girdler	IMDb
Bucktown	1975	5	5	Arthur Marks	IMDb
Friday Foster	1975	5	5	Arthur Marks	IMDb
Drum	1976	4	4	Steve Carver & Burt Kennedy	IMDb
Twilight of Love	1977	3	-	Luigi Scattini	IMDb
Greased Lightning	1977	5	5	Michael Schultz	IMDb
Fort Apache, the Bronx	1981	5	5	Daniel Petrie	IMDb
Tough Enough	1983	5	5	Richard Fleischer	IMDb
Something Wicked This Way Comes	1983	6	6	Jack Clayton	IMDb
Stand Alone	1985	6	5	Alan Beattie	IMDb
Badge of the Assassin	1985	4	4	Mel Damski	IMDb
The Vindicator	1986	5	4	Jean-Claude Lord	IMDb
On the Edge	1986	5	5	Rob Nilsson	IMDb
The Allnighter	1987	4	4	Tamar Simon Hoffs	IMDb
Above the Law	1988	5	5	Andrew Davis	IMDb
The Package	1989	5	5	Andrew Davis	IMDb
Class of 1999	1990	5	5	Mark L. Lester	IMDb
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	1991	5	5	Peter Hewitt	IMDb

Jack Nicholson

Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Cry Baby Killer	1958	5	5	Justus Addiss	IMDb
Too Soon to Love	1960	5	5	Richard Rush	IMDb
The Wild Ride	1960	3	3	Harvey Berman	IMDb
The Little Shop of Horrors	1960	5	5	Roger Corman	IMDb
Studs Lonigan	1960	5	5	Irving Lerner	IMDb
The Broken Land	1962	4	4	John A. Bushelman	IMDb
The Raven	1963	6	6	Roger Corman	IMDb
The Terror	1963	4	4	Roger Corman	IMDb
Ensign Pulver	1964	3	4	Joshua Logan	IMDb
Flight to Fury	1964	4	4	Monte Hellman	IMDb
Back Door to Hell	1964	4	4	Monte Hellman	IMDb
The Shooting	1967	6	5	Monte Hellman	IMDb
Ride in the Whirlwind	1965	5	5	Monte Hellman	IMDb
Hells Angels on Wheels	1967	4	4	Richard Rush	IMDb
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre	1967	6	5	Roger Corman	IMDb
Psych-Out	1968	5	5	Richard Rush	IMDb
Head	1968	5	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb
Easy Rider	1969	7	7	Dennis Hopper	IMDb
The Rebel Rousers	1970	2	2	Martin B. Cohen	IMDb
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever	1970	4	5	Vincente Minnelli	IMDb
Five Easy Pieces	1970	6	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb

Vincent Price

Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Service de Luxe	1938	5	4	Rowland V. Lee	IMDb
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	1939	4	4	Michael Curtiz	IMDb
Tower of London	1939	5	5	Rowland V. Lee	IMDb
The Invisible Man Returns	1940	5	5	Joe May	IMDb
Green Hell	1940	4	4	James Whale	IMDb
The House of the Seven Gables	1940	6	6	Joe May	IMDb
Brigham Young	1940	3	3	Henry Hathaway	IMDb
Hudson's Bay	1941	5	5	Irving Pichel	IMDb
The Song of Bernadette	1943	6	6	Henry King	IMDb
The Eve of St. Mark	1944	5	5	John M. Stahl & Irving Pichel	IMDb
Wilson	1944	4	4	Henry King	IMDb
Laura	1944	7	7	Otto Preminger	IMDb
The Keys of the Kingdom	1944	6	6	John M. Stahl	IMDb
A Royal Scandal	1945	6	6	Otto Preminger	IMDb
Leave Her to Heaven	1945	5	5	John M. Stahl	IMDb
Shock	1946	5	5	Alfred L. Werker	IMDb
Dragonwyck	1946	5	5	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	IMDb
The Web	1947	5	5	Michael Gordon	IMDb
The Long Night	1947	4	4	Anatole Litvak	IMDb
Moss Rose	1947	5	5	Gregory Ratoff	IMDb
Up in Central Park	1948	3	3	William A. Seiter	IMDb
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948	5	5	Charles T. Barton	IMDb
Rogues’ Regiment	1948	4	4	Robert Florey	IMDb
The Three Musketeers	1948	5	5	George Sidney	IMDb
The Bribe	1948	4	4	Robert Z. Leonard	IMDb
Bagdad	1949	3	3	Charles Lamont	IMDb
The Baron of Arizona	1950	5	5	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
Champagne for Caesar	1950	5	5	Richard Whorf	IMDb
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek	1950	4	4	Charles Lamont	IMDb
Adventures of Captain Fabian	1951	4	4	William Marshall	IMDb

Michelle Yeoh

Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Owl vs. Bumbo	1984	5	5	Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	IMDb
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars	1985	3	4	Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	IMDb