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While Jessica was inquiring about her latest novel’s plot being plagiarized by a popular TV series, the show’s executive producer gets blown up by a bomb. Season 4, Episode 8: Steal Me a Story (November 15, 1987) Struggling TV writer Gayle Yamada finds herself in a tight spot when her producer Sid Sharkey demands she […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Meatballs III was on USA Up All Night on December 8 and 9, 1989; May 18 and November 9 and 10, 1990; June 22, September 13 and November 16 and 17, 1991; December 31, 1992; May 21, 1993 and January 10, 1994. The Meatballs movies aren’t big on continuity, seeing as how Meatballs 2 wasn’t even intended […]
Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pandemonium was on USA Up All Night on January 14 and April 30, 1989; March 2 and September 28 and 29, 1990; March 22 and April 7, 1991. There was a time, let’s call it 1983, when we couldn’t just sit down and instantly find any single movie from anywhere in the world and […]
On IMDb, the first message about this movie says, “Before Virgin, I never put much stock in the idea of a cursed production. Take a film like Incubus. Just because the director’s nephew died, the production company went belly up, and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere. Those could all just be coincidences. Shit […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Sword and the Sorcerer was on USA Up All Night on April 29, 1994 and May 9, 1997. King Cromwell (Richard Lynch, Bad Dreams, God Told Me To) has come the whole way to Tomb Island to find Xusia (Richard Moll, contractually obligated to be in all 1980’s sword and sorcery movies, although a bad […]
I’m so excited to be in the new issue and wrote an expanded breakdown of why I love the movie Bad Dreams! Issue 31 of The Physical Media Advocate is ready to help you through the heat! Available now via Amazon and coming soon to our treasured physical and online retail locations, the latest issue […]
Week 2 (June 28 – July 4) – Dawna Lee Heising: Our beautiful QWEEN According to his bio on Letterboxd, Jamie Grefe is a director, producer, screenwriter and consultant who summons narratives of twisted suspense, horror and poetic sensuality. Actively collaborating across genres, Grefe is adept at crafting confrontational works that mesmerize and entrance audiences worldwide. His site says, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy of Sex was on USA Up All Night on June 17, 1994; February 11 and October 27, 1995 and February 17 and April 12, 1996. Did everybody’s parents have a copy of Dr. Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex? What a frightening book that was, what with its Chris Foss (Flash Gordon, Guardians of the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Barbarella was on USA Up All Night on January 23 and October 9, 1993 and November 19, 1994. Shot directly after Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik, this Roger Vadim-directed movie is based on the comic book of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest. The film stars Vadim’s then-wife Jane Fonda as Barbarella, a United Earth agent […]
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