Daniel Tervoort

Long time pop culture junkie... writer of several (so far) unproduced screenplays... family and friends will no longer play Trivial Pursuit with me
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  • The Works of the Elusive Thomas Pynchon
    12/22/2006
    Thomas Pynchon was one of the hottest cult novelists of the 70s, right up there with Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan and Ken Kesey.
  • Steve Ditko: the Father of Spider-Man
    12/22/2006
    As a young reader of comic books in the early 60s, the first artist that I was truly able to recognize as having an identifiable style, different from everyone else in the field, was Steve Ditko.
  • How Many Actors Have Portrayed Superspy James Bond Over the Last 50 Years?
    12/22/2006
    Quick! Who was the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's legendary character James Bond? If you answered Sean Connery I'm sorry to say that you are incorrect.
  • Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck
    3/28/2006
    The name of HOWARD THE DUCK has become kind of a joke in recent times. All that most people think of when they hear the name is an extremely bad movie that came out in 1986. Yet there was a time when HOWARD THE DUCK was the hottest property around.
  • The Planet of the Apes Franchise
    3/19/2006
    One of the most successful and fondly remembered film franchises of the early 70s was the PLANET OF THE APES series. rather than invest more effort and money into each new installment the films seemed to turn into cheaper and cheaper "kiddie flicks".
  • Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
    3/14/2006
    Perhaps not the first, but for my money the greatest black superhero of them all was LUKE CAGE, HERO FOR HIRE. Begun by Marvel Comics in 1972, the intention was to create a "hip", black superhero based on the popular "Shaft" movies of the time.
  • Castle of Frankenstein: Cult Movie Magazine
    3/12/2006
    For a brief time newsstands actually stocked a mature, well-written contemporary monster movie magazine geared towards thinking adults (though you'd never know it from the title): CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
  • The Golden Age of James Bond
    3/10/2006
    Though it appears to be continuing to this very day, the James Bond movie franchise actually came to a crashing halt in 1974 with the release of "The Man With The Golden Gun" which shouldn't even be considered a proper "James Bond" film.
  • The Skywald Horror-Mood Comics of Archaic Al Hewetson
    2/24/2006
    Those of us who grew up in the 70s rather than the 50s missed out on those great and gory EC comics that are so hot nowadays on the collectors' market. Instead of EC we had Skywald comics… an even more graphic and idiosyncratic breed of horror comics.
  • Sergio Leone - Spaghetti Western Master
    2/20/2006
    The name of Sergio Leone is practically synonymous with the term "spaghetti western." Few would deny that Sergio Leone was probably the closest thing to an artist that the genre has ever seen.
  • Daniel Johnston - Modern Day Musical Genius
    2/13/2006
    On the basis of what he recorded over the years Daniel Johnston has been hailed as a musical genius… a pop prodigy whose talents at songwriting have been compared to the best of The Beatles or Bob Dylan.
  • Motion Picture Purgatory - Comic Strip Reviews by Rick Trembles
    2/13/2006
    Rick Trembles took it upon himself to try something a bit different and do his iconoclastic movie reviews in the form of a comic strip… which he does on a weekly basis.
  • Cashiers Du Cinemart: A Magazine of Modern Alternative Movies
    2/13/2006
    Cashiers du Cinemart's beginnings were humble… that of a very small circulation fanzine, started up to address the fact that there was a wide variety of movies out there and not all of them got equal attention from the press.
  • Collect Old Comic Books for Love… Not Money!
    2/9/2006
    Nowadays comic books are valued not for the quality of the workmanship or the artistry involved in their creation but for the dollar values they rack up in "price guides" and online auctions.
  • Seth's Wimbledon Green- the Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World
    2/9/2006
    "Wimbledon Green", the latest graphic novel work by the artist known as "Seth", is an entertaining trifle of a story… but probably of minor interest to anyone but dyed-in-the-wool comic book collectors of a certain age.
  • Shock Cinema: Cult Movie Magazine of Distinction!
    2/8/2006
    Anyone who loves weird cult movies and wants to read something other than the usual cursory reviews that show up in the mainstream movie magazines desperately needs to check out Steven Puchalski's Shock Cinema Magazine.
  • The Legend of Bill-Dale Marcinko and AFTA Magazine
    2/6/2006
    The digest-sized book seemed pretty hefty… each of its 100 pages seemed crammed full of minuscule type and photocopied illustrations… reviews not only of comic books, but movies, TV and books!
  • Quentin Tarantino's Hostel and the Cinema of Cruelty
    1/30/2006
    Throughout the '60s and '70s were screened all manner of horrifying motion pictures promising the lurid and graphic depictions of violence, torture and rape. If they got ratings at all they were rated X.
  • Cinema Sewer-: A Cult Movie Magazine
    1/30/2006
    Each issue of Cinema Sewer is crammed full of articles, reviews and reminiscences of some the all-time sleaziest, grossest, most exploitive and most without-redeeming-social-value films that have ever seen the light of day.
  • The Godfather Part III … The Lame Duck of the Trilogy?
    1/25/2006
    "The Godfather Part III" came out in Christmas of 1995 and is a much maligned film… though, to be fair, expectations for it were so high that it was doomed to disappoint from the start.
  • Jack Nicholson - What Happened?
    1/24/2006
    How did this once fine actor go from one of the most energetic, original and unpredictable talents of the �70s to the tired showman that he is today?
  • Phantom of the Paradise He Sold His Soul for Rock and Roll!
    1/19/2006
    "He sold his soul for rock and roll." This was the advertising tag line for Phantom of the Paradise, one of the most original and vibrant films in the cinematic oeuvre of horrormeister Brian DePalma.
  • The Top 4 Used DVD Stores in Milwaukee
    1/5/2006
    My personal philosophy when it comes to DVDs is "Why rent when you can buy?" I have never understood the need to rent the new releases at premium rates every week when you can usually buy ex-rental copies for the price of a rental six months later.
  • The Top 4 Used Bookstores in Milwaukee
    1/5/2006
    Used books are my passion and one of my first priorities when I moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin was to find the best places to satiate my craving.
  • The Top 5 CD Stores in Milwaukee
    1/5/2006
    One thing that I have noticed since I moved to Milwaukee is the absence of a truly satisfying music emporium for my eclectic compact disc needs. This town is desperately in need of a Tower Records or an HMV or a Virgin Megastore...
  • The Best Places for Alternative Comics in Milwaukee
    12/16/2005
    Having just moved here to Milwaukee and being something of a comic book hound I was interested in finding the best places in the area to get my regular comics "fix".
  • Video Watchdog: A Magazine for True DVD Lovers
    12/16/2005
    For true movie lovers who would like to know something more than who stars in the movie and how much money it made on its opening weekend there is a nifty little magazine called Video Watchdog.

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