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July 26, 2010: Psychobabble Has Moved!
July 24, 2010: Gloria Stuart Attends her Centennial Celebration
July 21, 2010: Psychobabble recommends John Cale’s ‘Fear’
July 20, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Psycho II’
July 19, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Jack Bruce: Composing Himself’
July 16, 2010: Psychobabble’s Twelve Greatest Albums of 1980!
July 15, 2010: ‘House of the Wolf Man’ finally coming to DVD
July 13, 2010: Join Psychobabble’s All-New Facebook Group… Join It, I Say!
July 13, 2010: You too can help back the new David Lynch doc…
July 12, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
July 10, 2010: Farewell, Pete Quaife of The Kinks
July 8, 2010: ‘Psycho’ documentary coming this Halloween season…
July 7, 2010: Ringo’s Ten Greatest Beats
June 29, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘The Bat Whispers’
June 28, 2010: 21 Underrated Beach Boys Songs You Need to Hear Now!
June 24, 2010: Psychobabble recommends Philip J. Riley’s ‘Lon Chaney as Dracula’
June 23, 2010: “Twin Peaks” producer says network execs want the show back
June 21, 2010: Super ‘70s Time Capsule: “Mr. Jaws” edition
June 20, 2010: An Open Letter to ‘Jaws’
June 18, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Stones in Exile’
June 17, 2010: ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ in 3-D coming…
June 16, 2010: Anatomy of a Psycho: 50 Years of Hitch’s Masterpiece
June 14, 2010: The Vaselines set to release their second LP…
June 8, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie’
June 7, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘The Jaws Log’
June 3, 2010: ‘Mellodrama : The Mellotron Movie’
June 1, 2010: 15 Amazing Uses of the Mellotron
May 27, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear’
May 26, 2010: 20 Things You May Not Have Known About George Romero
May 23, 2010: Psychobabble News Round-Up: Beatles and Stones edition
May 17, 2010: Boris Karloff’s ‘Thriller’ finally coming to DVD!
May 13, 2010: Stones dish out the jive with ‘Exile’ reissues
May 13, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love’
May 11, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘I Was a Teenage Werewolf’
May 7, 2010: “Twilight Zone"-inspired exhibit coming to Gallery 1988 in LA
May 6, 2010: Punk Trainspotting with Captain Sensible
May 4, 2010: Watch ‘Nick Drake- A Skin Too Few’ on Psychobabble
May 1, 2010: “Night Gallery” on Hulu
April 30, 2010: Psychobabble’s Eleven Greatest Albums of 1970!
April 28, 2010: Here Comes Yet Another Kinks Movie
April 22, 2010: The Bride’s Many Veils: 75 Years of Bride of Frankenstein
April 19, 2010: Newly released Beatles and Stones singles
April 17, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘The Nanny’
April 14, 2010: Psychobabble recommends Philip J. Riley’s ‘The Wolfman vs. Dracula’
April 13, 2010: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on “Twin Peaks”!
April 12, 2010: 10 Great Dylan Versions That Aren’t by The Byrds
April 9, 2010: Farewell, Malcolm McLaren
April 8, 2010: “Twin Peaks” A-Z
April 7, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Small Faces: All or Nothing 1965-1968’
April 6, 2010: Keith Moon biopic still looning about
April 3, 2010: Full specs on deluxe ‘Exile on Main Street’
April 2, 2010: New Small Faces DVD comp
April 1, 2010: Six Creepifying Decades of ‘Tales From the Crypt’!
March 29, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Troll 2’
March 26, 2010: Alien vs. Pooh
March 25, 2010: Psychobabbling about ‘The Runaways’
March 24, 2010: A Touch of Hitchcock to Tide You Over
March 20, 2010: Chilton tributes and Ray Davies rarity at SXSW
March 18, 2010: Farewell, Alex Chilton…
March 18, 2010: 100 Years of ‘Edison’s Frankenstein’!
March 16, 2010: ‘Night of the Hunter’, ‘Dawn of the Dead’, Elvis, and more in New Jersey
March 12, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht’
March 10, 2010: Feed Your Baby Acid: 14 Psychedelic Songs Aimed at Kids
March 8, 2010: That Oscar Horror Tribute Thing
March 5, 2010: The Awkward Movie Challenge: Oscar Picks
March 3, 2010: Mark Frost spreads “Twin Peaks” “resolution” rumors?
March 1, 2010: Sly Stone is Coming Back For More
February 25, 2010: Finally some details about Deluxe ‘Exile On Main Street’
February 24, 2010: 20 Things You May Not Have Known About The Creature From the Black Lagoon
February 23, 2010: Abbey Road drama reaches The End
February 22, 2010: EMI to sell Abbey Road? Scratch that.
February 20, 2010: Psychobabble News Round-Up: Townshend, Costello, Hawkins, Weller, etc.
February 18, 2010: The Awkward Movie Challenge: ‘Suite 208 does David Lynch’
February 16, 2010: Psychobabble’s 10 Greatest Horror Movies of 1960!
February 14, 2010: ‘Live at Leeds’: 40 Years of Rock’s Definitive Live Album
February 13, 2009: The Psychobabble Double-Feature: ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ and ‘Eraserhead’
February 10, 2010: Asinine ‘Jaws’ remake rumors start to fly
February 8, 2010: Track by Track: ‘Psonic Psunspot’ by The Dukes of Stratosphear
February 5, 2010: A few thoughts on John Landis’s ‘Burke and Hare’
February 3, 2010: Johnny Depp to direct Keith Richards doc!
February 2, 2010: Darlene Love film in the works
February 1, 2010: The Awkward Movie Challenge: ‘The Lawnmower Man’
January 28, 2010: Zelda Rubenstein goes into the light…
January 26, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘The Black Room’
January 25, 2010: Track by Track: ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ by The Rolling Stones
January 24, 2010: Danny Boyle to bring ‘Frankenstein’ to the London stage
January 23, 2010: The Psychobabble Search Bar
January 22, 2010: Six Hammer Films to Make DVD Debut
January 21, 2010: Things That Scare Me: Case Study #10
January 18, 2010: 21 Underrated Songs by The Who You Need to Hear Now!
January 16, 2010: Rhino records to release ‘The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees box set’
January 15, 2010: Theatrical re-release of ‘Evil Dead’!
January 14, 2010: Psychobabble recommends ‘Listen & See’ by The Blue Things
January 13, 2010: Shout! Factory opens floodgates on the Roger Corman catalogue
January 11, 2010: The Nuggets Record Buying Guide: Love
January 8, 2010: Five Classic Monster Movies for a Snowy Day
January 5, 2010: Jagger spends “some time” on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
January 4, 2010: Christopher Lee Sings!
January 2, 2010: Psychobabble’s Ten Greatest Albums of 1965!
December 30, 2009: A change of gears for Julien Temple’s Kinks movie
March 16, 2010: 'Night of the Hunter', 'Dawn of the Dead', Elvis, and more in New Jersey
My favorite place to see a movie in Jersey is the phenomenal Landmark Loews in Jersey City, and this season the vintage movie palace is paying monthly tributes to specific decades in cinema history. Ever since I became aware of this I've been doing a little tribal Charles Laughton dance in the hopes that their '50s month would include a screening of the actor's sole directorial effort. All of that shaking and shimmying has paid off, because the Loews will be playing Night of the Hunter on Friday, March 26! Often considered a horror movie, but more of a nightmarish Southern Gothic fairy tale, Charles Laughton's film was a major flop when it was released in 1955, but it is now regarded as a groundbreaking classic due to stellar performances from a terrifying Robert Mitchum and a stalwart Lillian Gish, Mitchum's famed "left hand/right hand" speech, and Laughton's stunningly dreamy visuals.
Bob Mitchum in Night of the Hunter
Along with the greatness of Hunter, this screening is well worth attending for the beauty of the Loews and the can't-be-beat admission, which is, like, five bucks or something. Horror fans may also want to check in at the Loews this weekend for the "Saturday Nightmares" horror convention, which will feature screenings of Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow along with a panel discussion by George Romero, Ken Foree, Tom Savini, Adrienne Barbeau, and others! Those who check in on Psychobabble for the latest Rock & Roll info might be more interested in the screening of King Creole starring Elvis Presley, which will be showing on March 27.
Information about all these groovy events can be found at the Landmark Loews' official site. Here's to hoping that this April's '60s-cinema schedule will include screenings of Yellow Submarine and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm gonna get started on my tribal Ringo Starr/Stanley Kubrick dance right now...