Tag: Warner Brothers
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“Rollover, 1981”
“You’re gonna need a partner.” Rollover, 1981 (Jane Fonda), Orion With 1981’s Rollover, I gather I’m watching a movie about people who are obsessed with money. It’s never been my bag, but I’m willing to go along for the ride. Clean-shaven Kris Kristofferson (fresh from shooting the Harvard prologue in Heaven’s Gate) is a banking…
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Vintage Cable Box: Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983
“You wanna see something REALLY scary?” Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), Warner Bros. I popped in the old Warner Brothers clamshell VHS tape of this, because I wanted to watch the movie as I remembered it when I saw it on cable television in 1984. Of course I had to play it on…
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“More Different, Less Different”
In the run-up to our July 17th premiere podcast, “Extreme Cinema: Action and Exploitation Movies with Andrew La Ganke & David Lawler”, we present this oldie-but-goodie; analysis of Jon Schnepp’s intriguing documentary, “The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?”. “Extreme Cinema” will explore the work of lesser known celluloid heroes like David A. Prior, Larry…
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NEW PODCAST: “More Different, Less Different”
This is BlissVille, Misadventures in BlissVille, and tonight we’re going to be discussing Jon Schnepp’s 2015 documentary, “The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?”. Narrator: Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Man 1: Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird.…