THE CURSE OF THE DIA LATE MOVIE (AND THE BLACK WIDOW)
This Saturday at 11 PM EST, join Bill and Sam on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages for a TV movie! It’s The Curse of the Black Widow which you can find on YouTube. Every week, we watch one or two movies and discuss them, share the ads and have a drink that goes with the films. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: Sgt. Bilko (1996)
April 4: Repeats Again? — Write about a movie that is based on a TV series. The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You’ll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 but is better known as Sgt. Bilko. It started Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, who runs […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: Kaante (2002)
April 3: Remake, Remix, Ripoff — A shameless remake, remix or ripoff of a much better known movie. Allow your writing to travel the world (we recommend Italy or Turkey). The first Bollywood film to be completely shot in Los Angeles, Kaante combines The Usual Suspects with Reservoir Dogs and the inspiration of Tarantino’s movie, City On […]
About Joe Flaherty
When I was a kid, maybe around 1979, WPGH in Pittsburgh had an ad for a new show called SCTV. Now, the name means Second City Television from the Second City theater in Chicago, which always took pride as a second-rate city. Pittsburgh was way lower on the list of important cities, but the commercial pointed […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: This Is America (1977)
April 2: Mondo Madness — Write about a mondo movie. There was no internet in 1977 and the world was much larger, so the idea of what was in America could be seen as mysterious as countries like Africa that mondo filmmakers had already explored. Directed and written by Romano Vanderbes (who also made This Is America […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: Justine (1969)
April 1: Drop A Bomb — Please share your favorite critical and financial flop with us! No, not Jess Franco’s Justine which came out the same year. This is a bigger movie. Maybe not better. Directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick and written by Lawrence B. Marcus from the novel by Lawrence Durrell, Justine takes what […]
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