APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 2: Ski School (1990)
Ski School may have come out way after the teen sex comedy boom and before the wave that American Pie started, and you know, I may be fifty and working in the corporate world and feeling dead inside, but I would leave to join Dave Marshak (Dean Cameron, Rockula, Bad Dreams and, most essentially, Chainsaw from Summer School) and his Section […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 2: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
At the thirtieth anniversary of Revenge of the Nerds, Julia Montgomery (Betty) revealed that she originally had a scene in this movie, but turned it down, as it had her cheating on Lewis (Robert Carradine) with a jock. She felt that after her character fell in love at the end of the first movie — never […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 2: Porky’s III (1985)
James Komack is best known for producing The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Chico and the Man and Welcome Back, Kotter. To be honest, him making the third in this series is a thankless job, as Bob Clark didn’t return. He could have just been quiet about coming on board, but he told the Los Angeles Times that […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 2: Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983)
After the success of Porky’s — success is a small way to describe how influential it was on the movies that would follow in its wake, even if it owed so much to Animal House and Lemon Popsicle — the next film was in production quickly. Directed and co-written by Bob Clark, who worked with Alan Ormsby and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 2
It’s the second day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon and we’re getting horizontal. April 2: Teen comedies for adults — Remember the days of frats, gratuitous nudity and horrifying revenge framed as harmless pranks? Tell us about that movie! All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to […]
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