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EDITOR’S NOTE: Captain America II: Death Too Soon was on the CBS Late Movie on December 18, 1981. Airing on November 23 and 24, 1979 — the same nights that Salem’s Lot was also on CBS — with the new creative team of director Iván Nagy (perhaps better known as the boyfriend of Hollywood madam […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lee Coombs is the founder and editor of Please Rewind Movies, an independent movie publication celebrating cinema past and present, with a particular love for the films many of us grew up watching. He writes about horror, cult movies, forgotten favourites and the stories behind the films that stay with us. Read […]
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! One of ten movies Roger Corman made in Argentina in the 80s, and one of the first for his new Concorde Pictures, this is another of Corman’s attempts to save the environment by recycling. Or recycling footage from Sorceress and Deathstalker. As writer Ed […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Face of Fu Manchu was on the CBS Late Movie on August 6, 1974 and July 31, 1975. Directed by Don Sharp and produced by the notorious Harry Alan Towers, this British-West German co-production kicked off a five-part cinematic franchise. Starring Christopher Lee as the devilish mastermind and Nigel Green as his […]
Jessica’s niece is smitten with a rodeo rider and refuses to believe he could have committed a murder. Season 4, Episode 20: Showdown In Saskatchewan (April 10, 1988) Jessica Fletcher trades Cabot Cove for the rugged Canadian plains of Queensbridge, Saskatchewan, where cowpokes, bulls, and bad choices run wild. But when the local circuit “doctor” […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spring Break was on the CBS Late Movie on September 15, 1987. Between the first Friday the 13th and the House series, Sean S. Cunningham made this teen sex comedy. As my wife Becca reminded me, one of the only differences between this movie and a slasher is that no one gets killed for all the […]
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Sooner or later, I had to watch this movie. Gage Dobson (Jaime McEnnan ) has some problems. He’s bullied every day by Ashton (Scott Ferguson) and Leon (Mike Simmrin), and when he gets home, he has to deal with his divorced mother, Cathy (Loni Anderson), […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Where the Boys Are was on the CBS Late Movie on June 3, 1988. Twenty-four years before, Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, and Frank Gorshin learned about Where the Boys Are. That movie had no topless scenes. There are in this one. The last movie directed […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rituals was on the CBS Late Movie on February 26, 1980 and January 6, 1982. Canada, with your tax shelters and movies that are far north of odd, remains our constant bastion and perhaps a place to run to. Director Peter Carter also made a movie called High-Ballin ’, and it wasn’t a porno; […]
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out A nuclear holocaust—the Final War— has done wonders for the local leather industry. Society crumbles, governments fall, and suddenly everyone dresses to impress as they take to the radioactive dunes on dirt bikes, sporting asymmetrical […]
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