Category Archives: movies

The Blog that Knew Too Much

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Reverend

Today I picked up this very large, colorful French film poster for Mario Bava’s 1963 film giallo The Girl Who Knew Too Much. It’s pretty special, and not just because it’s a cool piece of vintage film poster art for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bavafridaymornings: Kill, Baby….Kill!

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Reverend

The great Paul Bond and I did another installment of the bavatuesdays film festival, which means we are on a three week roll after a long hiatus. I’m hoping we can move off Google Hangouts for this coming Thursday’s episode … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Monster Bash 2014 starring Barbara Steele

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Reverend

I already posted about how awesome the recent issue of Filmfax is, but I also wanted to share an advertisement from the recent issue extolling the virtues of the 2014 Monster Bash that will be held outside Pittsburgh, PA  next … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Black Sabbath: What is Browning to Bava?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Reverend

Last night Paul Bond and I resurrected our bavatuesdays film festival. We got waylaid for a month or two, but now we are back. This experiment was in service to working out the details of how we will be collaboratively … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bavatuesdays Episode 2: Hercules in the Haunted World

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Reverend

Paul Bond and I got together for another awesome talk about Mario Bava’s second feature Hercules in the Haunted World (1961). The discussion ranges from points about Bava’s brilliant use of color in this film, the Sword and Sandal genre, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bavateusdays Film Fest Site Up and Running and we have Hercules on Tap

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Reverend

So we are in week two of the bavatuesdays film festival. I had a blast doing the first show on Black Sunday (1960) with Paul Bond, and I am preparing for round two this Tuesday at 2:30 PM on Hercules in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bavatuesdays episode 1: Black Sunday

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Reverend

A day late (but not necessarily a dollar short), we got the first of ten bavatuesdays film festival episodes in the bag, and I was joined by the great Paul Bond for a discussion about Mario Bava’s 1960 black and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bavatuesdays’ 10 Week Mario Bava Film Festival

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Reverend

Note: While writing this monster of a post I realized I wrote a post back in August of 2008 wherein I dreamed up a double-feature bava beverly film fest that matched a Bava film with another classic. Well this is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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What does bava mean?

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Reverend

Shelley recently asked me a simple question, “What does bava mean?” It’s a fair question and I thought it might actually be helpful to spell it out a bit for my customers readers dear friends.
Well, there are many meanings for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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