There is something vital going on over at Ferdy On Films and The Self-Styled Siren . Marilyn Ferdinand (Ferdy) and Farran Nehme (The Siren) are in cahoots with the Film Noir Foundati...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2011/02/phenix-city-story-phil-karlson-1955.html
Green Beret-B-Q Between the time Robin Moore 's "flaming blockbuster" non-fiction book, THE GREEN BERETS , was written in 1963 to 1964 (published in 1965), and the time the Warner Brothers 1968...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2010/06/green-berets-john-wayneray-kellogg-1968.html
The Flying Maciste Brothers want to extend their heartfelt -- um -- hearty -- um -- hardy congratulations to their favorite living actor, Jeff Bridges -- -- for his win of the Best Actor Oscar...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2010/03/destructible-congratulations-jeff.html
"We belong dead!" that had raised Karloff's immortal mug high on the internet image-meter this past November.] Director James Whale sure knows how to throw a dummy -- or -- more precisely -- ...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/11/frankensteinthe-bride-of-frankenstein.html
Come one, come all! Come on down to 92Y Tribeca on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 8pm to see The Flying Maciste Brothers live! Emmy-nominated comedian and writer Kevin Maher has generously a...
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Happy Landings, Sweetheart! A global flood of radiation scours a post-nuclear-holocaust planet Earth of its corrupt human civilization in Roger Corman's biblical parable, "DAY THE WORLD ENDED"....
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/10/day-world-ended-roger-corman-1955.html
Imamura-Da-Vida Rain -- -- fog -- and snow -- -- blanket an isolated, Japanese suburb -- -- and the stunted lives that play out within it in Shoei Imamura's "Intentions of Murder". In ...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/07/intentions-of-murderunholy-desireakai.html
WE'RE POOPED! Well, we worked all week and weekend on it and though we've done a lot... jeez... we still have so much more to go... and... then... well... it happened. The Flying Maciste Bro...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/07/destructible-pumpkins.html
Phil Karlson would have been 101 years old today! In his time, he killed more than his share of dummies and he killed them with context, perspective and impact. What he could have given us had...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/07/destructible-birthdays-phil-karlson.html
Over the edge... Thanks to a terse (and perverse) screenplay by Frank S. Nugent (John Ford's THE SEARCHERS, TWO RODE TOGETHER) -- -- monumental cinematography courtesy of the reliably visiona...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/06/gunmans-walk-phil-karlson-1958.html
FREE BLOG ENTRY! click to view enlarged image Here's the deal: 1. Simply right-click on the image and "save image" to your computer's hard-drive... then 2. Upload the copied image into a "...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/05/destructible-promotion-thon.html
It is with overwhelming sadness that the The Flying Maciste Brothers report the death of director/cinematographer Jack Cardiff, OBE, B.S.C.. Not only was Cardiff an early pioneer of Technicolor...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/04/destructible-passings-jack-cardiff.html
Comedy or Conscience? Dummy-deaths in comedies are a shoe-in for big laughs. It's a fact. Confirmed. Think of the basic equations: a) person + injury = a giggle b) person + injury x dummy-for...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/04/staplerfahrer-klaus-der-erste.html
...out like a lamb! What a difference a month makes! March certainly did come in like a lion -- and so did a handful of bloggers dedicated to the challenge of impromptu animal dummy-death analys...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/04/far-from-madding-crowd-john-schlesinger.html
Well, he's sure as Hecks gone and done it this time, alright! Never one to spit in the wind and get hit by it, our good friend Arbogast, who lives just a link-click away at ARBOGAST ON FILM, ma...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon15-arbogast-on.html
It seems like we've been spending more time over at our friend Chris Poggiali's den of delinquency, TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK, than here at our own DESTRUCTIBLE MAN lately... but when Chris asked us to...
The devil made them do it... Here we go again, this time Chris Poggiali (practising Macistite and the little devil in charge of that internet exploitation inferno called TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK ) and ...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon14-temple-of.html
Three's the charm... Arriving #3 at the gate in this month's DESTRUCTIBLE BLOG-A-THON.1 is that arbiter of fine cinematic lager, The Beerman (who, we can assume is the nom-de-plume of film swi...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon1-3b-theater.html
The whimper of flayed dogs... As we would expect nothing less from the irrepressible Kimberly Lindbergs over at our cinemaretro-home-away-from-home, Cinebeats -- an extraordinary look at one...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon12-cinebeats.html
First to fight! Hats off to Darrell Bratz over at Rancid Popcorn for being a fast first responder to our DESTRUCTIBLE-BLOG-A-THON.1 ! Not only has Darrell found it in his heart to share (and h...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon11-rancid-popcorn.html
Reindeer games. Renny Harlin is Santa . We’re convinced of it. After decades of giving us such wonderful presents as: PRISON (1988) -- THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE (1990) -- CLIFFH...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/long-kiss-goodnight-renny-harlin-1996.html
Greetings, good friends and neighbors! We Flying Maciste Brothers thought it hi-time that we threw our faithful readers into the fray with our very first Destructible Blog-a-thon! Since it's b...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/03/destructible-blog-thon1.html
Stu Beef From the first burst to the last blast, SHATTER is an action-adventure movie very much of its time: the mid 1970s -- -- post-Bruce Lee -- -- when studio chiefs transformed into st...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/02/shatter-monte-hellmanmichael-carreras.html
Nice to be back at DESTRUCTIBLE MAN after several long gaps. To be honest, it wasn't until the recent spate of emails and comments that we realized that we'd even been MISSED! Good to know. We we...
How I spent my Xmas vacation... A tale in the true spirit of the holidays, NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS depicts the travels of two teenage girls on a train ride home for Christmas. Like Ebenezer Scroo...
http://www.destructibleman.com/2009/02/night-train-murders-lultimo-treno-della.html