CANNON MONTH 2: Five Minutes of Freedom (1973)
Also known as Pushing Up Daisies, this was directed by Ivan Nagy (a former bookmaker for the mob and boyfriend of Heidi Fleiss; he also directed episodes of CHIPs and HBO’s The Hitchhiker, as well as the movies Captain America II: Death Too Soon and Skinner) and co-written by Ross Hagen (who wrote and directed The Glove and Click: The Calendar Girl […]
Visual Vengeance unleashes Moonchild in October
Wild Eye Releasing’s new sister label Visual Vengeance, a collector’s Blu-ray label dedicated to vintage Shot On Video and micro-budget genre independents from the 1980s through 2000s, is excited to reveal the next blu ray collector edition release for October 2022 to add to its fast-growing catalog of VHS-era genre gems: Moonchild! In a dystopian future, […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Scooter (2022)
Abandoned by her boyfriend in the middle of the night, Adrienne (Anita Abdinezhad, Eradication) picks up a scooter and rides — Pushes? Shuffles? Kick, kick pushes? — off to her destiny: a rescue mission with a tied-up woman trapped in the back of a van. Director and writer Chelsea Lupkin has created an intriguing film […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: The Civil Dead (2022)
Clay (Clay Tatum, the director and co-writer of this movie) is an unemployed photographer and scam artist who decides to hang out with an old friend named Whit (Whitmer Thomas, who co-wrote the script) when his wife Whitney (Whitney Witt) is out of town. He soon learns that the acquaintance whom he lost track of […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Please Baby Please (2022)
Amanda Kramer’s (Ladyworld) new film takes place in 1950s Manhattan — maybe not our version of that time and place, but a neon world of music and dance — where Arthur (Harry Melling) and Suze (Andrea Riseborough) — he’s a clarinetist, she’s a housewife — witness a murder committed by a gang of rough trade greasers […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on December 18, 2017. Christmas Eve, 1950: Wilfred Butler runs from his home, on fire, and supposedly dies in the snow. Christmas Eve, 1970: John Carter (Patrick O’Neal, The Stepford Wives, The Stuff) and his assistant Ingrid arrive in a small Massachusetts town. He meets with the town’s […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Limit (1972)
Black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson (Yapphet Koto, who directed and co-wrote this movie with Sean Cameron) and Jeff McMillan (Quinn K. Redeker) patrols the worst neighborhoods, seeking to control the gangs like the Virgins. Yet wen Mark bonds with their leader Big Donnie (Ted Cassidy), it causes a rift in the gang with Donnie’s […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on June 2, 2020. Five years after Africa Blood and Guts, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi returned with this movie, which is pretty much one of the roughest films I’ve ever made it through. This was shot primarily in Haiti, where the directors were the guests of Haitian […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: Follow Her (2022)
Jess Peters (Dani Barker, who also wrote the film) is a struggling actress and livestreaing influencer who has been getting somewhat famous answering job listings from creepy men and then sneak filming and either revealing their behavior or kink shaming them. Now, she’s found a job that asks her to go to a remote cabin […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: They Wait In the Dark (2022)
Amy (Sarah McGuire, The Stylist) is a young woman on the run with her young son Adrian, trying to stay one step ahead of her abusive ex-girlfriend Judith (Laurie Catherine Winkel). The chase takes them from motel to motel, seeking out people to help them get further away, even sleeping in gas station bathrooms to […]
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