I don’t want to shock anybody, but I’m really not much of an expert on the late Sonny Bono and his onetime wife Cher. However, I’m assuming 1969 was fairly early in their association. With youth flicks generating surprise hits like Easy Rider, studios big and small were anxious to cash in. However, the Hollywood [...]
Well, here we are, again examining one of my favorite Bad Movie genres: the Show Biz Exposé. It’s kind of a mystery why moviemakers are so inept at this kind of picture. Still, a cursory glance at my list of featured movies should convince you that it’s true. At every level of filmmaking, from the [...]
TV’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 brought many (justifiably) obscure filmmakers to the attention of the B-Movie community. Few of them, however, saw their stock rise as much as Coleman Francis. Francis wrote, helmed and sometimes acted in three pictures, The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961), The Skydivers (1963) and 1966’s Red Zone Cuba (a.k.a. Night [...]
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First off, this review was a collaborative effort between Patrick Coyle and me. Patrick and I have corresponded since before the Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie review and we eventually hit upon a deal. He had reviews in various stages of [...]
