APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: Wired (1989)
Judith Belushi, the widow of comedian John, and his manager Bernie Brillstein asked Robert Woodward — the writer of All the President’s Men and the man who joined who Carl Bernstein to break the story of Watergate — to write a book about Belushi to counter the many rumors that had started after the comedian’s death […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: The Weird World of LSD (1967)
I thought LSD was going to make me see the gods that live beyond the wall of sleep and wait for us to notice us and then drive man mad, but instead this movie taught me that I’ll just think I’m a chicken, play with cats or eat a ham sandwich, which are all things […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: Psychedelic Sex Kicks (1967)
“No two trips are alike. Even if you can’t fly now and pay later, you don’t need to book a round-trip fare because you never come back the same way. It’s the leaving and going that counts.” I hope the next trip I am on does not have people body painting each other while a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: The Scare Film Archives Volume 1: Drug Stories!
Something Weird has made out lives so much richer, saving the strange, the smutty, the scary and everything in between. Working with the American Genre Film Archives, they created this mixtape of sheer lunacy which adds up the scare films of the past. You’ll never do drugs again until the next time to do drugs. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: Grass (1999)
Ron Mann also made Comic Book Confidential, which is one of my favorite documentaries, as well as movies about Big Daddy Roth, Robert Altman, free jazz, the twist and Margaret Atwood. Joined by writer Solomon Vesta and narrator Woody Harrelson — no stranger to the kind bud and who did this movie for free — Grass takes […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30
We made it! The last day of the April Movie Thon! April 30: Drugs, Drugs, Drugs — Close us out by getting us super high and sharing your supply. Here are a few to get you started. More (1969): Mimsy Farmer doing real drugs, Pink Floyd playing any time a radio gets turned on and the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: Watch the series: Freaky Friday (1975, 1996, 2003, 2018, 2020)
Freaky Friday started as a novel written by Mary Rodgers, based on Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers by F. Anstey, a story in which the protagonists are father and son. In Rodgers’ book, 13-year-old Annabel Andrews and her mother spend time in each other’s bodies. The novel was so popular that Disney as made it four times an […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: Friday Foster (1975)
Not just a blaxploitation, not just a comic strip movie, not just a Pam Grier movie, this is also her last movie for AIP that ties in race identity, being a woman and, most essentially, Pam Grier kicking ass for 90 minutes. Friday Foster comes from an American newspaper comic strip, created and written by […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: The 13th Friday (2017)
Justin Price also directed The Mummy Rebirth, Abominable, Elves, Wrong Place, Wrong Time and more, all direct to streaming or the shelves of WalMart films that you may not have noticed. The movie starts with these words: “Somewhere in Texas is a house said to be so haunted that a church was built on the property and the […]
April Movie Thon Day 29: The King of Friday Night (1985)
The Monarchs — like Eddie and the Cruisers and the Wonders before them — went from Nova Scotia obscurity to a Canadian chart-topping hit, until, as it usually does, it all fell apart. Unlike the Wonders, who never regrouped, and like Eddie and the Cruisers, who eventually did (sort of via the ‘ol Part Duex), […]
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