APRIL MOVIE THON 4: The Vanishing of S.S. Willie (2024)
April 4: World Rat Day — Celebrate this holiday by writing about a movie with a rat in it. Directed and written by Nick Lives, this was the first of the many Steamboat Willie cash-ins after it went into the public domain. However, it’s way better than others like Mouse of Horrors and The Mouse Trap. Instead […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Copkiller (1983)
April 3: National Film Score Day — Write about a movie that has a great score. L’assassino dei poliziotti is also known as Copkiller, Corrupt, Bad Cop Chronicles #2: Corrupt, Corrupt Lieutenant and The Order of Death. After making movies about the Italian Communist Party, director Roberto Faenza was considered so politically incorrect that he had […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Dragonslayer (1981) and Trancers (1984): Two Great Film Scores but Only One in Service of Its Film
April 3: National Film Score Day- Write about a movie that has a great score. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Exploitation-film historian A.C. Nicholas, who has a sketchy background and hails from parts unknown in Western Pennsylvania, was once a drive-in theater projectionist and disk jockey. In addition to being a writer, editor, podcaster, and voice-over artist, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996)
April 2: Get Me Another- A sequel or a movie way too similar to another film. Anne Goursaud may be known for editing Francis Ford Coppola’s films Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Outsiders and One from the Heart, but she also had a run of directing in the 90s, working with Alyssa Milano to make this and another […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Candy (1968)
April 1: Drop A Bomb- Please share your favorite critical and financial flop with us! I’m obsessed not just by flops but by the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Hollywood wanted to figure out how to get the kids into theaters. Easy Rider was a hit, so they financed movies like The Last Movie, Head, […]
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