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Written by Generoso Fierro Over the last nineteen years of my radio show, I have always ended with the phrase, “And in the immortal...
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Written by Generoso Fierro Over the last nineteen years of my radio show, I have always ended with the phrase, “And in the immortal...
By Generoso Fierro Film scholars seem to always look back at the 1970s as that glorious time when the studio system fell, and the...
Hidden from prying eyes lies the dark side of Roku. Hundreds upon hundreds of channels available for download. Some you can get from Roku-approved...
The 70s have been romanticized to a point where I’m betting a large portion of the population is done with them. I think I...
As of October 3, 2014, the decade-long tradition of the Saturday morning cartoon block died in its sleep after a long illness. The battle...
By Elizabeth Weitz The 70s were a bad time for teenagers, at least in the Made-for-TV movie category, films like: Sarah T. – Portrait...
While this post is going to be all about the candy cigarette, the idea of it came from a conversation I had with my...
By Elizabeth Weitz I am a crafter. Obviously not a good one as I don’t have an Etsy store and very few people actually...
Social media…it can be one of the greatest things ever or the worst, depending on how you look at it. For some, the age...
Photo courtesy of Addye Joyfantastic Invented by Bill Hass, the Bone Phone was a Spandex-covered portable radio that one could drape over their shoulders...
What were the most influential horror films of the 70s? HALLOWEEN, THE OMEN, and CARRIE come quickly to mind, as does ALIEN if you...
Way back in the Seventies, live action super-heroes were a rarity. Both in television and the movies, these characters were dismissed as children’s properties...
In the more innocent days of the Seventies, American daredevil Evel Knievel captured the attention and imagination of children everywhere. Between 1965 and 1980,...
There was a period in comics when virtually anything that was successful in movies or on television got their own series. Like Welcome Back,...
Ask anyone who was a kid in the 70s, and they’ll recount being scared by horror movies on television. What’s interesting is that the...
In the mid-Fifties, a former WWII pilot and post-war British accountant named Edward Craven Walker was at a local English country pub called Queen’s...
Twenty years before Fresh Prince Will Smith departed West Philadelphia for Bel Air, audiences embraced another series set in the City of Brotherly Love. ...
There are times here at Mystery Box H.Q. when I set out to write about a subject that I feel is so undeniably a...
I recently revisited Westworld (1973) a film that kind of scared the crap out of me as a kid, even in its television version. I...
The US Army (and the CIA) recruit a small group of outlaw bikers for a suicide mission behind enemy lines in Cambodia during the...
Some Girls still stands today as one of The Rolling Stones last incredible album masterpieces. While they certainly made some outstanding albums afterwards—Tattoo You...
Way back in February of 1977, just a few months before Star Wars came out, I remember my best friend and I went to...
At the end credits for the tenth Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, there was the usual little teaser for the next Bond...
Since moving out over fifteen years ago, my parents have gradually turned my childhood room into a convenient place of extra storage. You may...