APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5: X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963)
Roger Corman originally made this movie about a scientist, but that was “too obvious” so he changed the lead to be “a jazz musician who had taken too much drugs, and I get into about four or five pages, and I thought, “You know, I don’t like this idea”, and so I threw the whole […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5
For the fifth day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, we’re celebrating the birthday of Roger Corman, who has pretty much influenced not only the movies we’ve loved on video and at drive-ins, but literally all of pop culture. April 5: Roger Corman’s birthday — You have a few movies to choose from, whether […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Arabesque (1966)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Clinton Rawls is an instructor at the Lamar Institute of Technology where he teaches courses on the humanities, art history, and film appreciation. As a labor of love, he translates foreign language and unofficial James Bond comics into English for the first time on his website, Comics Royale. Drop him a line and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Fool N Final (2006)
The tagline of this movie, “Stealing stones and breaking bones,” should tell you all you need to know, as this is the Indian Hindi-language remake of Snatch and yes, such a thing is possible. Director Firoz Nadiadwala some very loose remakes of other movies like Phir Hera Pheri being based on another Guy Ritchie movie Lock […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Baytekin Fezada Carpinsanlar (1967)
Baytekin Fezada Carpinsanlar (Flash Gordon’s Battle In Space) aired on Turkish MTV at some point and that has allowed viewers worldwide to see a much better print of this movie than anyone would imagine possible. I remember when the Buster Crabbe serial would air late at night in the year before and after the big-budget Flash […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Bach ke Zara (2008)
In the pages of Ed Glaser’s How the World Remade Hollywood, I learned that Evil Dead was such a huge movie in India that numerous films took its artwork and tree attack as their own, with 2007’s Bhayam (The Fear) going so far as to outright take footage in an Indian-infused bit of Bruno Mattei-esque thievery. Bach ke […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Our Friend Power 5 (1989)
Five humanoid turtles from the planet Battlestar and Princess Yesular have crash landed on Earth after a battle with the dreaded Shark Gang, who are all rats, but it’s a cool name. So yes, this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remix asks us to imagine an alternate universe where Master Splinter is the bad guy, that there […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4
It’s day four of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon and time to fire up your movie remix, remake and ripoff machine. April 4: 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). If you want to learn […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 4: Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (2015)
What does Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai mean? Rain the Color of Blue with A Little Red In It. And even though Prince asked us to “reach out for something new,” this movie — based on the life of famous musician Mdou Moctar — is also a homage to Prince’s first movie. But yet it emerges as a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 3: Ghosts Can’t Do It (1988)
I don’t like the Razzies much, but I have to agree with them for once. Ghosts Can’t Do It won worst picture, worst director, worst actress and worst supporting actor for the artist who debuted here, Donald Trump. Trump and co-star Leo Damian were also nominated for worst new star, but that went to Sofia Coppola. […]
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