CANNON MONTH: Alien from L.A. (1988)
Based — loosely based! — on Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth with a little part of The Wizard of Oz as several actors play parts above and below ground, Albery Pyun’s science fiction fantasy tells the story of Wanda Saknussemm (Kathy Ireland), a nerd — as if — who gets dumped for not having […]
Interview with Ed Glaser, author of How the World Remade Hollywood part 3
In the second part of this interview, we learned from Ed Glaser, the author of How the World Remade Hollywood, exactly what Santo, post-apocalyptic movies and sharks have to do with remake and remix cinema. Today, it’s all about Italian movies and if riffing ruins a film. B&S: But sometimes in the midst of these […]
CANNON MONTH: Bernadette (1988)
Leave it to Golan and Globus to make a Catholic movie. In 1858, a 14-year old asthmatic and illiterate girl named Bernadette (Bernadette Soubirous) saw a light with a beautiful young woman inside. You may know the miracle by the town she lived in, Lourdes. Made two years after Alain Cavalier’s Thérèse, this Cannon-produced movie […]
An Approximation of Their Barbarous Manners (2021)
Director, writer and actor Christian Serritiello has made a movie that revolves around the making of a movie, one that features 87-year-old American character actor Bruce Glover missing from the first day of shooting and the cast and crew unravelling. Other than the video of his audition and a phone call, Glover is absent from […]
SPACE IS THE PLACE FOR THE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!
I won’t be around this weekend — Becca’s father’s celebration of life is Saturday and family will be in nearly all week — but you should join Bill and GG Graham Bill and me this Saturday at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube page! Up first is the singular wonder that is Liquid Sky. You […]
LIONSGATE DVD RELEASE: Highway to Heaven (2021)
Highway to Heaven was a TV series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984 to August 4, 1989. It starred Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel who walks the Earth, helping souls along with retired cop Mark Gordon, who was played by Victor French, Landon’s co-star from Little House on the Prairie. Sadly, French died […]
CANNON MONTH: Going Bananas (1987)
This movie sure had some changes before it got to the screen. Bonzo was going to be a real ape* before Deep Roy was cast, while Big Bad Joe Hopkins was going to be played by Bud Spencer — on the 1986 Cannon reel of upcoming films this was called Ben, Bonzo and Big Bad […]
CANNON MONTH: Mercenary Fighters (1988)
Colonel Kjemba (Robert DoQui, Sgt. Reed from RoboCop) has called in Vietnam vets Virelli (Peter Fonda), T.J. Christian (Reb Brown, forever Yor) and Cliff Taylor (Ron O’Neal, forever Youngblood Priest) who join up with Wilson Jeffords (James Mitchum, forever Robert’s son) and ) to stop a rebel uprising, but you know, sometimes you never know what […]
CANNON MONTH: Gor (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally wrote about this on March 6, 2020. Now it’s back for Cannon Month. John Norman is a professor of philosophy and the creator of the Gor series of books, which are basically male-dominated bondage science fiction fantasies that also feature critiques of modern society and the exploration of philosophical themes from a […]
Interview with Ed Glaser, author of How the World Remade Hollywood part 2
In the first part of this interview, we learned how Ed Glaser, the author of How the World Remade Hollywood, discovered remakesploitation films as well as some of why so many of these films come from Turkey and Italy. Here’s the next part of our interview, which gets into Santo, post-apocalyptic movies and sharks. B&S: […]
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