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), […]
Circle of Fear episode 17 “Doorway to Death”
Directed by Daryl Duke and written by Richard Matheson and Jimmy Sangster, this episode is all about a family moving into a new apartment in San Francisco. When young Robert (Leif Garrett) starts to explore, he finds an empty apartment with a door into the woods inside. He also meets a man inside those woods who asks […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. Admission is still only $10 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an additional $10 per person. You can buy tickets at the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: Watch the series: Friday (1995, 2000, 2002)
Ice Cube and DJ Pooh felt that movies only showed the dark side of the urban experience. Cube had the vision of making a “hood classic” that would be rewatched over and over again and based much of the script — only the third he had written — on his life. They got New Line […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29
We’re almost done! April 29: Movies with Friday in the Title — TGIF. So pick a Friday movie and share it with everyone. Here’s what you can watch today: Friday the 13th (1980): Oh, good Lord! …So young…So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this? Friday the 13th Part II (1981): Take the look of […]
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