APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7: The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
There are 24 movies in the Canadian series Tales for All and man, are they all this weird? Originally known as Michael’s Fright, this is a movie that Skippy paid to be in, which is wild, because dude, Canadian kids movies are more frightening than American horror. Michael Baskin is an 11-year-old boy in a crisis. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON APRIL 7: The Dirt Bike Kid (1985)
If you were a kid that grew up in Ellwood City, you were looking to rent one of three movies that were the hottest of childhood commodities: Rad, Thrashin’ and The Dirt Bike Kid. Who doesn’t want to watch Peter Billingsley go one on one with Stuart Pankin over a magical dirt bike? Having this movie for the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978)
Mordecai Richler, the author who wrote the book that this Canadian kid movie is based on, sounds like the kind of name someone would get when they go to WWE or a robber baron or both. Speaking of pro wrestling, the bad guy in this, the Hooded Fang, was once a grappler but now he […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7: Biokids (1990)
A beyond low budget Philippines parody — or perhaps rip-off — of the sentai show Bioman, but you are forgiven if you instantly think Power Rangers as that’s the western cultural touchstone for these shows. The kids spend much of their time fooling with a haunted house before the mad scientist who lives there gives them some […]
Interview with William Stout Part 4
Last time, we got into William Stout’s work on Return of the Living Dead. This time, we learn about his visit to Eternia. B&S About Movies: Masters of the Universe isn’t really a He-Man movie, huh? It’s a Jack Kirby movie. Stout: Oh, absolutely. You nailed it. Gary Goddard, the director of the film, is […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7: Bill and Coo (1948)
Shot on the world’s smallest film set, this film only has three humans — producer Ken Murray, bird trainer George Burton and Elizabeth Walters — show up in the opening. The stars are the birds of the town of Chirpendale. It was awarded an honorary Academy Award as it doesn’t really fit into the world […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7
On the seventh day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, we’re not resting. We’re all about the kids. April 7: Think of the children — Pick a movie that was controversial for how potentially damaging that it would be to the children who are our future. All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as […]
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