Screwball Academy (1986)
Also known as Loose Ends, this is an attempt to use the name of the Screwballs franchise — such as it is — while using Coleen Camp from Police Academy and Police Academy 4 to somehow try and make a new series, because this movie has nothing to do with Screwballs other than the knowledge that both movies are Canadian […]
State Park (1988)
Also known as Heavy Metal Summer, this movie seems to be about Johnny Rocket and drummer Louis, who are on their way to Los Angeles to be part of the Sunset Strip hair metal scene in the three years they have left before “Nevermind” comes out. It’s also about Eve (Kim Myers, A Nightmare On […]
Dark Sister (2020)
Dark Sister is the (very welcomed) U.S. reboot of Sororal, an Australian neo-giallo that weaves the psychosexual tale of the ratty loft shut-in Cassie (well played by Amanda Woodhams in her leading lady debut; ironically looking like Dakota Johnson’s sister). An artist traumatized by the murder of her mother, Cassie comes to realize the nightmares […]
Vice Academy (1989)
Are you ready for the movie that won USA Networks’ B-Movie Awards for Best Picture and has the honor of being their highest-rated late-night film when it first aired on cable television? How about a Police Academy ripoff with Ginger Lynn and Linnea Quigley? Are you prepared for that? What if I told you that RIck […]
Mortuary Academy (1988)
Sam (Christopher Atkins, The Blue Lagoon) and Max (Perry Lang, The Hearse) inherit the Grimm Mortuary and Academy, but as these things go, they must graduate from it to actually own it. Trying to keep them from achieving that goal is the current owner, Dr. Paul Truscott (Paul Bartel) and his assistant Mary (Mary Woronov), […]
Paramedics (1988)
Stuart Margolin did more than play Evelyn “Angel” Martin on The Rockford Files. He directed plenty of TV shows and this 1988 Police Academy takeoff. George Newbern (Poochinski!) is Uptown and Christopher McDonald (Shooter McGavin in a rare babyface role!) is Mad Mike, two, well, paramedics who get moved from uptown to the streets and come across […]
Police Academy (1984)
You may not know the name Hugh Wilson, but you probably know his work. He created WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank’s Place and The Famous Teddy Z, plus he directed The First Wives Club, Burglar, Blast from the Past and Guarding Tess. He was the director of the first Police Academy, a film that every movie this week is really all about. […]
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