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A new episode of The Manson Brothers Show, the video series hosted by the writers/stars of the horror comedy The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre – Chris Margetis (Stone Manson) and Mike Carey (Skull Manson) – has just been released, and in this one the Boys are looking back at the 1981 sci-fi horror film Galaxy of Terror (watch it Here). To find out what they had to say about Galaxy of Terror, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Bruce D. Clark, who wrote the script with Marc Siegler, and produced by Roger Corman, Galaxy of Terror has the following synopsis: As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow,...

Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Jack Blessing (1951-2017) - Actor. Best known for TV series including Moonlighting, he also appears in the movies Talladega Nights, Thirteen Days and Heaven's Gate. Recently he worked in Adr, doing voice work for Hell or High Water and the two parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. He actually died of pancreatic cancer on November 14. (THR) Conrad Brooks (1931-2017) - Actor. One of Ed Wood's regular actors, he plays a policeman in Plan 9 from Outer Space and also appears...

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Jack Blessing, an actor best known for his roles on “Moonlighting,” “The Naked Truth” and “George Lopez,” died at his home in Chatsworth, California at age 66. Blessing’s death, which occurred on November 14, was confirmed in a Facebook post by his son, Ian Blessing, who told The Hollywood Reporter that his father had been battling pancreatic cancer. Blessing’s rep confirmed the cause of death in an email to TheWrap. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2017 (Photos) Blessing may be best remembered as MacGillicuddy from the 1980s crime dramedy “Moonlighting.” The character worked at the Blue Moon Detective Agency run...

Jack Blessing, an actor who had recurring roles on such series as The Naked Truth, Moonlighting and George Lopez, has died. He was 66.

Blessing died Nov. 14 at his home in Chatsworth, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his son Ian told The Hollywood Reporter.

Most recently, Blessing was seen as Jack Powers, who with his brother Mel (Mark Tymchyshyn) owned the Powers Aviation business that employed Lopez's character, on the comic's eponymous 2002–2007 ABC sitcom.

In 1986, the Baltimore native joined the stylish ABC drama Moonlighting in its third season as MacGillicuddy; he worked at the Blue Moon...

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Galaxy Of Terror

Roger Corman's Cult Classics

Blu-ray | DVD

Directed by Bruce D. Clark

Starring Edward Albert, Ray Walston, Grace Zabriskie, Bernard Behrens, Erin Moran, Robert Englund, Zalman King, Taaffe O’Connell, Sid Haig, Jack Blessing

Shout! Factory

Release Date: July 20, 2010

Until the rise of home video in the early 1980’s, the best place to get quality exploitation cinema was to fire up the car and head out for a night at your local drive-in theater or dilapidated grind house, and during the heyday of exploitation, Roger Corman was the king of unbeatable schlock.

Today the prolific producer/director is as much known for his ability to churn out low-budget B-movies that would always turn a profit thanks to a shrewd marketing strategy that the blockbuster filmmakers of today would take and run with for a while before perverting into blandness, as he is for discovering or at least...

Now it’s official. Law & Order: Svu is on the crazy train, jumping tracks and stranding passengers in Nowheresville. Some of us (okay, mainly me) carped about Christine Lahti’s role as fill-in Ada Sonya Paxton from the beginning. When she wasn’t belittling Stabler (Christopher Meloni) she was sneering at Benson (Mariska Hargitay) or taunting suspects, all the while teary-eyed and callow. The character was inconsistent, insulting, and insufferable. Wednesday night we learned it was all, theoretically, because she’s a lush. Oh, let us rewind this one, because there was plenty to gnash at in this episode appropriately titled “Hammered.