Tag: Andrew La Ganke
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Extreme Cinema! “Inquiring Minds Want To Know”
This is interesting; it’s a VHS dub, Nelson Entertainment, even has the FBI Warning (remember those?) and we have Adam Baldwin and Roy Scheider in Cohen and Tate, music by Bill Conti, and it’s an unusual score, like old time horror, like Dead Heat – that’s what it reminded me of, but first I wanted…
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Extreme Cinema! A Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse
Extreme Cinema episodes are released once-per-month. This is because when we record, we usually wind up spending two to three hours discussing these movies. We have to watch the movies first, that takes about two weeks. We’re busy guys and Andrew and his wife just had a baby. After we record, I listen to the…
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Extreme Cinema! “Is It Safe?”
Would ya do me a kindness? Don’t slam the fuckin’ door! So, we usually talk about movie directors on the fringe with their respective peers. The first episode we recorded was about the deceased David A. Prior, low-to-no budget filmmaker, Deadly Prey and The Deadliest Prey. Fred Olen Ray, Mark Goldblatt, Rowdy Herrington. Tonight, we’re…
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Extreme Cinema! “Don’t Use the Same Gun Twice”
Alternate Title: “McNaughton by Nature” Here we are again, nauseating you with another episode of Extreme Cinema – Action and Exploitation movies with Andrew La Ganke and David Lawler. Tonight, my stars, but we have two movies directed by John McNaughton, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael and How to Make an American Quilt … just joking,…
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Extreme Cinema! “Fu-Man Chews”
Robert Englund makes a cameo as the bus driver in the dream sequence that begins the movie. Christopher Young, an enormously talented film composer, does the score. He did a great score for The Fly II and the Hellraiser movies. I know this because I have several of his scores on tape and compact disc.…
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Extreme Cinema! “Kill This Guy, Would You?”
Dead Heat is a 1988 American action comedy horror film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price. The B movie is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out…
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Vintage Cable Box: Q: The Winged Serpent, 1982
“New York is famous for good eating.” Q: The Winged Serpent, 1982 (David Carradine), United Film Distribution Company You can almost hear the surge of John Williams’ famous two-note tone poem, except that instead of swimming the murky depths of the North Atlantic, we’re soaring across the magnificence that is the New York City skyline.…
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Extreme Cinema! “Stop Talking and Start Driving”
Tonight, we kick off our premiere episode of Extreme Cinema! Action and Exploitation Movies with Andrew La Ganke & David Lawler with David A. Prior’s action thriller, “Deadly Prey” from 1987, and then we discuss the 2013 sequel, “The Deadliest Prey” starring his brother, Ted Prior. Written by David Lawler and Andrew La Ganke. “Love…
Misadventures in Blissville 