MILL CREEK BOX SET RELEASE: Documentary Now! (2015-2022)
Whether you believe that this is a series in its fiftieth season or a mockumentary show created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas, you just have to watch it. Through four seasons, all hosted by Helen Mirren, you will meet the sisters who live in “Sandy Passage,” which is totally Grey Gardens; […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: The King of Queens (1998-2007)
Premiering on CBS on September 21, 1998, The King of Queens was one of those shows that always seemed to be on. I had never watched it, and all I knew about Kevin James was that he was Mick Foley’s high school wrestling teammate. But when I showed the box set on our weekly “What Came […]
MILL CREEK SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES
The Swingin’ Seventies set is finished. You can get more info on this Letterboxd or IMDB list. You can get the set from Amazon. Thanks for Jenn Upton and Paul Andolina for their help. Movies covered this month include: Against a Crooked Sky The Border The Borrowers C.C. and Company Cold Sweat Concrete Cowboys Congratulations, It’s a […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Young Graduates (1971)
Crown International Forever. Directed by Robert Anderson* (Cindy and Donna), who wrote this with Terry Anderson and Dave Dixon, this movie starts off with high school senior Mindy Evans (Patricia Wymer, The Babysitter) dumping her boyfriend Bill (Gary Rist, who went on to compose the music for Lifepod) and hooking up with very married photographer […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
Milton Moses Ginsberg started his directorial career with Coming Apart, a near-documentary which starred Rip Torn as a mentally disturbed psychologist who has been filming his sexual affairs. Sally Kirkland was also in the film, which was shot within a one-room, 15’x17′ set. This movie is absolutely nothing like that movie. Jack Whitter (Dean Stockwell) […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Warhead (1977)
Terrorists blow up a school bus in the Middle East, killing everyone on board except Lt. Liora (Karin Dor) who identifies Palestinian Major Malouf (David Semadar) as the person behind is all this and man, this movie is almost fifty years old and we’re still dealing with this, huh? She has to go back along […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: War of the Robots (1978)
Paul Andolina, whoe writes the site Wrestling with Film, is in charge today. Beyond loving wrestling, he also knows a ton about Russian and lucha films (and he even speaks pretty good Spanish, so we hear!). War of the Robots — originally titled La Guerra dei Robot — is an Italian science fiction film released in […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Wanted: Babysitter (1975)
Ann (Sydne Rome, the daughter of an Akron, Ohio plastics manufacturer who went to Europe and became a star in movies like Some Girls Do and Sex With a Smile; she also dated David Bowie for a year, became the face of aerobics in Europe by the 80s and recorded several songs) is an actress […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Wacky Taxi (1972)
Pepe “Pepper” Morales (John Astin) already has four kids and another on the way with Maria (Maria Pohji). What better time than now to quit his job at a can company and paint a car so it looks like a taxi and be his own boss? Directed and written by Alexander Grasshoff — who also […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975)
Stephen Boyd only lived to see 45, but the guy had the kind of life that could fill several others, what with starring in epics like Ben-Hur, nearly drowned in the Ardèche river and shared a camp with cannibals for the movie The Big Gamble, was censored for his near-nudity in GIna Lollobigida’s dream project Imperial Venus and […]
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