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Jessica Fletcher hops a cab to the Big Apple to check on her restaurant investment and see her perpetually flustered nephew, Grady, take the plunge into engagement territory. But Manhattan’s culinary scene proves to be more lethal than a bad health inspection. Season 4, Episode 19: Just Another Fish Story (March 27, 1988) What happens? […]
Star Trek is central in so much of my life. I have formed lasting friendships with people all the way back to high school through my love of the show, and it’s been pivotal to my life. That said, I haven’t kept up much because, I have to confess, I am and always will be […]
Peter Jackson and his partner/co-writer, Fran Walsh, conceived the idea for this movie during the script-writing phase of Heavenly Creatures. Robert Zemeckis nearly directed it as a spin-off of the Tales from the Crypt TV series, but he was so impressed by Jackson and Walsh’s first script that he decided that Jackson should direct. Universal granted Jackson […]
I had a friend I used to go to the movies with every weekend. Sometimes it didn’t even matter if we wanted to see a movie. The Last Boy Scout was one of those movies, and you know, it was different from the moment it started, when an L.A. Stallions running back (Billy Blanks!) pulls out […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on July 5, 2018. Graduation Day was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Cannon Releasing Corporation. By 1981, all manner of slasher had been slashed. From dates on the calendar to holidays to high school, college, probably every trade schools, if you could kill someone someplace […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: When She Was Bad was on the CBS Late Movie on October 4, 1984. Fresh off her massive fame on Charlie’s Angels, Cheryl Ladd pivoted away from glossy prime-time escapism to tackle a grim topic for late-seventies network television: maternal child abuse. At a time when network TV movies loved nothing more than […]
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out “London 2008. After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming. The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed-of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: 43: The Richard Petty Story was on the CBS Late Movie on May 13, 1987. When this biopic about NASCAR’s winningest driver was made, stock-car racing hadn’t yet vaulted from regional popularity in the South to nationwide notoriety. Races didn’t find their way to national television until a few years later, so that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream was on the CBS Late Movie on May 11 and August 22, 1983; May 17 and December 26, 1984 and March 28, 1985. This is a gritty, ripped-from-the-headlines socio-economic morality play disguised as primetime entertainment, taking a hard look at inflation, blue-collar survival, and the entrenched boys’ club […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Released after the book became an international bestseller, Servants of Twilight brings Dean Koontz’s 1984 novel (originally written under the pseudonym Leigh […]
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