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Riding Shotgun

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Riding Shotgun: Before He Was James Bond and Lord Sinclair, He Was a Maverick

Don McGregor
June 10, 2014
Riding Shotgun, TV
Enter Roger Moore, as a cousin raised in Britain, whom audiences had never heard of before.

Riding Shotgun: Searching Search for Leslie Stevens

Don McGregor
June 2, 2014
Riding Shotgun, TV
The only thing missing in Search is Leslie Stevens's inherent vision and voice.

Riding Shotgun: Gently at the Crossroads of Life and Violent Death

Don McGregor
May 21, 2014
Riding Shotgun, TV
This is a series that deserves to be well known.

Riding Shotgun: How the Shadow and Popeye Are the Same

Don McGregor
April 20, 2014
Riding Shotgun
The Shadow is what he is.

No Robin Hood Is Going To Save This ‘Lady in a Cage’

Don McGregor
April 7, 2014
Riding Shotgun
Don't expect any deep psychobabble about what makes Caan tick; the only thing you need to know is his boundaries for violence are nonexistent.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain Devours More Than Sugar Pops

Don McGregor
March 13, 2014
Riding Shotgun
If you were one of the people who shared Harryhausen's and O'Brien's fondness for both prehistoric behemoths and hard-riding heroes, you really only had two films that solidly fit into that category: The Valley of the Gwangi and The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Jack Benny Meets Raoul Walsh: The Horn Blows White Heat at Midnight

Don McGregor
February 9, 2014
Riding Shotgun
Jack Benny meets Raoul Walsh at the top of the world: Heaven. This pairing of two such disparate talents, the collaboration of the inimitable stand-up comic master of the verbal pause and perfectly timed...

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: A Haunting Echo, A Fading Validation of a Disintegrating Woman

Don McGregor
January 27, 2014
Riding Shotgun
Can you hear someone calling your name? Twice? Like a haunting echo? The double-calling of Mary Hartman's name at the beginning of every episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is used in...

Zatoichi – The Scintillating Sword-blade Stained with Blood is the Blu-ray Set Of 2013

Don McGregor
January 11, 2014
Riding Shotgun
You know how many damned years and how much of a quest it was for me to finally manage to get a full set of the Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman film series on DVD? I'm sure it was over a decade. Just this year I...

Cheyenne – Season 7: The Quintessential ‘Quiet Until Riled’ Loner Cowboy Rides into the Last Sunset

Don McGregor
December 16, 2013
Riding Shotgun
It has been noted that when Cheyenne premiered on September 20, 1955, as part of an anthology series, Warner Brothers Presents which contained three separate, alternating series, one show was based on...

Shout at the Bipolar Devil & Bad Scorchy Gets Her Fire Put Out (A Midnight Riding Shotgun Double Feature)

Don McGregor
December 1, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Just like they sometimes do in movie theaters, I decided that for this column I would write a double feature. Cult films often had midnight runs and ran as double features. Both Scorchy and Shout at the Devil...

Night, Dawn, Day of the Walking Dead: The Demarcation Points of Gut-spilling and Women’s Nipples in Pop Culture

Don McGregor
November 15, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Richard Matheson was a legend to many readers and writers because of his novel I Am Legend. Whenever Hollywood has tried to film that seminal book about survival and how myths come to be created, they...

Dobie Gillis: “I Gotta Kill that Boy!” A Cult Series Makes its Way to DVD

Don McGregor
October 26, 2013
Riding Shotgun
On the television screens in America in 1959, a harried grocery store owner shouts out at his son's cavalier leave from their home with the SHOUT!, "I've gotta kill that boy!" And we're a long ways from the...

A Boy, A Dog, A Woman — and L.Q. Jones and Harlan Ellison: A Writer’s Wounds 40 Years Later

Don McGregor
August 10, 2013
Riding Shotgun
I liked Blood. I liked Blood right up to the end. I liked Blood until Blood, the telepathic dog, the sardonic sage, laughed callously at the death of a woman, until Blood dismissively made a cruel joke...

Loneliness. Do You Know That Loneliness Will Kill You Deader Than a .357 Magnum?

Don McGregor
June 14, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Electra Glide in Blue should be a severely schizophrenic movie. The two compelling storytellers, the first time director James William Guercio and cinematographer Conrad Hall have almost bipolar extremes in...

Before They Slaughtered Mavericks Wholesale

Don McGregor
May 22, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Warners has two divisions releasing DVDs and Blu-Rays, and sometimes it’s like a Maverick gamble trying to figure out which release is coming from which section. Maverick, Season 2 on DVD has apparently a...

Who The Hell Is Stoney Burke and Why Should You Care

Don McGregor
April 24, 2013
Riding Shotgun
The question many of you will have coming to this piece is: Who the hell is Stoney Burke, and is there any reason I should care who the hell he is. Stoney Burke is a TV series created by Leslie Stevens and...

Jackie Chan Channels Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks and Harold Lloyd

Don McGregor
April 18, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Over the years I have met various film directors who claim they'd studied the film-making of Buster Keaton and had been influenced by Keaton's 1920s cinema-language defining work and mind-warping, eye-boggling...

Andrew D. Cooke’s Documentary Slices into the Heart of a Creative Life

Don McGregor
March 21, 2013
Riding Shotgun
Andrew D. Cooke’s documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist is a rarity, a film on the life of a comic artist against the backdrop of decades. For people who treasure comics and the history of...

Yancy Derringer and the Wolf Who Stands in Water

Don McGregor
November 12, 2012
Riding Shotgun
 I never thought I'd see the TV series Yancy Derringer, with Jock Mahoney, on DVD looking as spiffy as Yancy in his ruffled shirts and brocades.I never thought every episode with Pahoo Ka Ta Wah...
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