APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Firearm (1993)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. At one point, in the midst of the comic book boom of the early 90s, Malibu Comics — owned by Dave Olbrich and Tom Mason with the private financing of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg — was big enough to encompass Eternity […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Green Hornet (1940)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. The Green Hornet started as a radio show on January 31, 1936 on WXYZ, the same Detroit station that aired Challenge of the Yukon and The Lone Ranger, a show that this is connected to, as The Green Hornet is newspaperman Britt […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Model By Day (1994)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. There was actually a Model By Day comic book which ran all of two issues from Rip-Off Press by creator Kevin J. Taylor before somehow getting to be a Fox TV movie. Even crazier, one of its writers, Jeph Loeb, […]
VINEGAR SYNDROME BLU RAY RELEASE: Vacation of Terror 1 and 2 (1989, 1991)
EDITOR’S NOTE: These first appeared on the site on June 21, 2020 and June 22, 2020. I love both of these movies so much and am so excited that Vinegar Syndrome is releasing them. Both movies are newly scanned and restored in 4K from a 35mm original camera negative and a 35mm archival positive. There are […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Dondi (1961)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. OK, I’m cheating. This is a comic strip not a comic book, but Dondi was created by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen and at the height of its fame, it ran in more than a hundred newspapers from September 25, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Creating Rem Lazar (1989)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. Rem Lazar is not a comic book but man, he’s a hero and one that has obsessed me since I first saw him as part of the Found Footage Festival. Director and writer Scott Zakarin may have gone on to […]
Followers (2021)
Directed and written by Marcus Harben, this British found footage movie is all about Jonty (Harry Jarvis), who had a very public freakout on the reality show Brats of Belgravia and hasn’t really gotten hismelf all that together. He starts that return to popularity by moving into a home with Zauna (Loreece Harrison), Amber (Erin Austen) […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: I Saw What You Did (1965)
April 1: New boss, same as the old boss — Start the month off with something that’s April Fool’s in nature. I Saw What You Did had William Castle screaming on posters “This is a motion picture about UXORICIDE!” and installing seatbelts in theater seats. But he had the best gimmick of all: Joan Crawford. Libby Mannering […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Tamara (2005)
April 1: New boss, same as the old boss — Start the month off with something that’s April Fool’s in nature. Tamara Riley (former dancer Jenna Dewan) is, well, Carrie and is in love with the only person who treats her with any kindness, her teacher Mr. Natolly (Matthew Marsden). She’s also a talented writer, but when […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Don’t Hang Up (2016)
April 1: New boss, same as the old boss — Start the month off with something that’s April Fool’s in nature. Directed by Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Macé (working as part of Framestore, they’ve done visual effects for most of the MCU films) and written by Joe Johnson (The Skulls III), Don’t Hang Up is all about […]
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