It’s year four of the April Movie Thon, your chance to write for B&S About Movies.

All April long, there will be thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of April Movie Thon 3, you can just send us an article for that day to bandsaboutmovies@gmail.com or post it on your site and share it out with the hashtag #BSAprilMovieThon

This year, I plan on doing one long review for each day and really exploring each movie. Will this be the year that other writers take part?

Here are the themes:

April 1: Drop A Bomb — Please share your favorite critical and financial flop with us!

April 2: Get Me Another — A sequel or a movie way too similar to another film.

April 3: National Film Score Day — Write about a movie that has a great score.

April 4: World Rat Day — Celebrate this holiday by writing about a movie with a rat in it.

April 5: Visual Vengeance Day — Write about a movie released by Visual Vengeance. Here’s a list to help you find a movie.

April 6: Independent-International: Write about a movie from Sam Sherman. Here’s a list.

April 7: Jackie Day — Celebrate Jackie Chan’s birthday!

April 8: Zoo Lover’s Day — You know what that means. Animal attack films!

April 9: Do You Like Tubi Originals? — I do. You should find one and write about it. Here’s a list to help.

April 10: Seagal vs. Von Sydow — One is a laughable martial artist. The other is a beloved acting legend. You choose whose movie you watch, it’s both of their birthdays.

April 11: Until You Call on the Dark — Pick a movie from the approved movies list of the Church of Satan. Here’s the list.

April 12: 412 Day — A movie about Pittsburgh (if you’re not from here that’s our area code). Or maybe one made here. Heck, just write about Striking Distance if you want.

April 13: (Evil) Plant Appreciation Day — It ain’t easy being green. Pay tribute to all the plants with a movie starring one of them.

April 14: Viva Italian Horror — Pick an Italian horror movie and dig into the pasta sauce and gore.

April 15: TV to Movies — Let’s decry the lack of originality in Hollywood. But first, let’s write about a movie that started as a TV show.

April 16: Filmirage — Give in to the sleaze and write about a Joe D’Amato produced movie. There’s a list here.

April 17: Bat Appreciation Day —Watch a movie with a fake bat in it.

April 18: Heavy Metal Movies: Pick a movie from Mike McPadden’s great book. RIP. List here.

April 19: Record Store Day — Write about a movie starring a musician.

April 20: King Yourself! — Pick a movie released by Crown International Pictures. Here’s a list!

April 21: Gone Legitimate — A movie featuring an adult film actor in a mainstream role.

April 22: Earth Day Ends Here — Instead of celebrating a holiday created by a murderer, share an end of the world disaster movie with us. You can also take care of the planet while you’re writing.

April 23: Regional Horror — A regional horror movie. Here’s a list if you need an idea.

April 24: Polonia Bros — Whether alone or with his brother John, Mark Polonia has made so many movies. Pick one off this list.

April 25: Bava Forever — Bava died on this day 43 years ago. Let’s watch his movies.

April 26: Oh Giorgio! — Pick a movie with a Giorgio Moroder score. Here’s a list to get you started.

April 27: Kayfabe Cinema — A movie with a pro wrestler in it.

April 28: Nightmare USA — Celebrate Stephen Thrower’s book by picking a movie from it. Here’s all of them in a list.

April 29: Screw the Medveds — Here’s a list of the movies that the Medveds had in their Golden Turkey Awards books. What do they know? Defend one of the movies they needlessly bashed.

April 30: Weird Wednesday — Write about a movie that played on a Weird Wednesday, as collected in the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive. Here’s a list.