USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Tomboy (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tomboy was on USA Up All Night on February 4 and September 11, 1994; March 3 and November 4, 1995; May 10 and December 21, 1996 and July 18, 1997. Tomasina “Tommy” Boyd isn’t like the other girls. No, she’s not sneaking into school and switching her gender like Terri/Terry Griffith. But unlike all her […]
DRIVE-IN SUPER MONSTER RAMA PRIMER: Grizzly (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This weekend is the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama! Get more info at the official Drive-In Super Monster-Rama Facebook page and get your tickets at the Riverside Drive-In’s webpage. From 1972 to 1978, William Girder directed nine feature films and would have probably never stopped, were it not for the helicopter crash that took his life […]
The 2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Is Here!
Scarecrow Video isn’t just a video store. It’s a landmark for all we love about movies. Each year, they do a month-long challenge to get people to stretch out and watch some movies they’ve never seen before. You can also check out the Letterboxd list for 2021 as well as our lists for 2018, 2019, […]
DRIVE-IN SUPER MONSTER RAMA PRIMER: Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This weekend is the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama! Get more info at the official Drive-In Super Monster-Rama Facebook page and get your tickets at the Riverside Drive-In’s webpage. Did Roger Corman sit in a room screaming, “Make me more amphibian monster movies NOW!” into the telephone? Because this week, that’s the feeling that I’m getting. […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Basic Training (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Basic Training was on USA Up All Night on March 4, August 5 and December 8, 1989; June 29 and 30, 1990; January 4 and August 31, 1991 and May 15, 1992. I love that this movie had the working title Up the Pentagon, like the abortive 1980 Mad Magazine movie Up the Academy. It’s the only movie […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Staying Alive (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Staying Alive was on USA Up All Night on September 16, 1995. Saturday Night Fever producer and writer Robert Stigwood and Norman Wexler dreamed of a sequel to the film pretty much since the original was released. What they came up with, Staying Alive, was a script that John Travolta disliked. It was too much of […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Virgin High (1991)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Virgin High was on USA Up All Night on June 4 and December 4, 1993; November 25, 1994; August 12, 1995 and March 8, 1996. Christy Murphy’s (Tracy Dali, who was June in Click: The Calendar Girl Killer) strict Catholic parents — Burt Ward is her dad — are worried that their daughter is having sex with […]
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