JUNESPLOITATION: Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
June 18: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Rock and Roll! This movie is so much better than it has any right to be. The third movie in a series of air disaster movies with a Hot Topic aesthetic should not be this good. Slade Craven (John Mann, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Angels (1970)
Satan’s Serpents and The Choppers are happy to coexist, but the cops start pushing racial tensions between them in the hopes that the two biker gangs will wipe one another off the face of the planet. Any wars these gangs had before this were about turf, not the color of their skin. But Lt. Harper […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: National Lampoon: Lemmings (1973)
June 16-22 SNL Week: Saturday Night Live is celebrating 50 years on the air, can NBC last for another 50 years?? The magazine National Lampoon did a stage show that came out of the radio show. Directed by Tony Hendra, Michael Keady and Sean Kelly and written by Hendra, Kelly, David Axelrod, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
June 16-22 SNL Week: Saturday Night Live is celebrating 50 years on the air, can NBC last for another 50 years?? How does a character who was in short sketches get to be in a movie? Ask nearly everyone in the 1990s who had a recurring Saturday Night Live character. Al Franken created and played the […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959)
June 17: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Lucio Fulci! This is 39 of 57 movies directed by Lucio Fulci, so I have made my way through all of his genre films and am now in the comedy and musical movies. Like 1960’s Urlatori alla Sbarra, The Jukebox Kids is […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
June 16-22 SNL Week: Saturday Night Live is celebrating 50 years on the air, can NBC last for another 50 years?? I have a love/hate relationship with Saturday Night Live. Maybe because it’s me coming from Pittsburgh, because that’s one of the few places where it didn’t air live, because Chiller Theater was such a big deal. […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Up the Academy (1980)
June 16: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is ‘80s Comedy! In 1980, 8-year-old Sam was all in on MAD Magazine—every issue. It’s how I saw so many R-rated movies, as I couldn’t go to the theater but could read them as redone by Mort Drucker. Imagine my joy when […]
Murder, She Wrote S1 E19: Armed Response (1985)
While in the hospital with a fractured leg, Jessica investigates the murder of a doctor. Season 1, Episode 19: Armed Response (March 31, 1985) Tonight on Murder, She Wrote… Even in the hospital, Jessica causes people to die. Who’s in it, outside of Angela Lansbury, and were they in any exploitation movies? Barney Ogden is played […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Woman Revenger (1981)
June 15: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Revenge! Nu xing de fu chou (New Type Revenge) AKA The Nude Body Case In Tokyo is a 1981 Taiwanese movie directed by Yang-Ming Tsai (Phoenix the Raider, The Legend of Broken Sword) and written by Chen Kuo Tai and Chen-hsiang Tai. Sure, […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse (1984)
June 14: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Free Space! In August of 1979, Kit Williams published Masquerade, a book that had clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare that Williams had created and hidden somewhere in Britain. He had been challenged by publisher Tom Maschler to […]
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