CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: The UFO’s of Soesterberg (2023)
De UFO’s van Soesterberg is directed by Bram Roza and just like the title says, it’s about the night of February 3, 1979. In the air above Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands, a giant black UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) hovered overhead and was seen by twelve people. All of them were military officers and […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Off Ramp (2023)
“What is a juggalo?A Hulkamaniac.He powerbombs motherfuckers into thumbtacks.People like him ’til they find out he’s unstableHe Sabu’d your momma through a coffee table.” Trey (Jon Oswald) has just got of a year in jail and even there, he’s liked by the guards. He seems like a genuine person. He went there because of Silas […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Blind Cop 2 (2024)
“The last surviving 728,000 copies of Blind Cop 1 were censored by the U.S. government. Each individual one was burned and buried in the Syracuse salt mines.” After saving the city in the last movie, Blind Cop (George Fearing) is mourning the loss of his partner Mac (Steven Vogel). He knows that all sorts of […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #4: The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking (1987)
There’s no way I would have ever seen this movie if it wasn’t for the Chattanooga Film Festival. “My father says if people don’t come and see this movie, we’ll starve,” says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father’s The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking. Fred G. Sullivan only made one other movie and that’s […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: C.B. Hustlers (1976)
Uschi Digard week (June 23 – 29) Digard is best known for her work with Russ Meyer but she became an SWV fan favorite for two gargantuan reasons, her charm and her prolific career. The Swiss actress fled to America in 1968 and began a long career filling the silver screen from corner to corner […]
Junesploitation: The Punisher: Dirty Laundry (2012)
June 25: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Vigilantes! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. The Punisher used to be the kind of comic book character whose t-shirts you could wear but today, just like conspiracy theories, it’s […]
Junesploitation: Heaven’s Revenge (2022)
June 25: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Vigilantes! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. I’m consumed by the idea that African American movies on Tubi flow from the same filone as American giallo or sex thrillers without […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: House of Usher (1960)
Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher, this film marked the beginning of a series of eight Poe adaptations by Roger Corman, often in collaboration with writer Richard Matheson. Shot in a mere fifteen days, it was a bold departure for American-International Pictures, known for its black-and-white double […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #3: Nightflyers (1987)
Before he became known for Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin wrote a 23,000-word novella titled “Nightflyers,” which was published by Analog Science Fiction and Fact. A few years later, encouraged by his editor James Frenkel, Martin turned it into a longer story which was published in a split book with Vernor Vinge’s True Names […]
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