Author Archives: Fandomania

A baseball fan sells his soul to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the "damned" New York Yankees in this slice of pure delight from Adler, Ross, Fosse, Abbot, Donen and most of its Broadway cast. Tab Hunter ably plays ingenue lead, and Ray Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming Read More

Overeager cub reporter Chick Brian (Eric Linden) thinks he has the story that will land him the front-page byline of his dreams when he snaps the picture of a diamond smuggler in a most candid situation. Unfortunately for the hapless Chick, it only Read More

Frank Sinatra added "director' to his astonishing resume of wonder with this taut anti-war drama that looked back at World War II with a prescient message for a nation currently wading into the morass of Vietnam. A Japanese-American co-production (the Read More

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for another round of music for Rock Band! This week’s songs include releases from After The Burial and Unearth. You can pick up each individual song for $1.99. Read More

Sidney Poitier cemented his ascent to the Tinseltown firmament with this Guy Green (Light in the Piazza) directed drama about a friendship between a black office worker (Poitier) and an uneducated blind white girl (Elizabeth Hartman in her screen Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming Read More

Journeyman genre master John Guillermin (Tarzan's Greatest Adventure) steps in to direct the Shaft franchise's next entry with a big budget boost out of the exploitation zone and into Bond-style action-adventure. Subject to a most unorthodox Read More

Following the astonishing breakout and genre defining success of 1971's Shaft, star Richard Roundtree, director Gordon Parks and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman reunited for this follow up that plunges Shaft into the middle of a gang war. John Shaft Read More

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for another round of music for Rock Band! This week’s songs include releases from Circa Survive and Sleeping With Sirens. You can pick up each individual song for $1.99. Read More

The deadly, wisecracking Leprechaun is back in all his gory glory. When the sorority sisters of the Alpha Upsilon house decide to go green and use an old well as their water source, they unwittingly awaken a pint-sized, green-clad monster. The Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming Read More