In a world where it seems there’s superhero fatigue, at one time, movie producers really didn’t see the point in doing a superhero movie. And there was a good reason – they really didn’t have a good track record. While the first two Superman movies were well-made and received, popularity was waning. Superman III wasn’tContinue reading “The Original ‘Fantastic Four’ Finally Gets The Spotlight”
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Rest In Power, Morris! We’ll See You Later ‘Alligator’
By 1980, the whole Man vs. Animal genre that had become popular with the success of Jaws had gone stale. The giant rabbit movie Night of the Lepus had been released in 1972 and the 1976 adaptation of The Food of the Gods was already in production before Jaws was released. But movies like KingdomContinue reading “Rest In Power, Morris! We’ll See You Later ‘Alligator’”
A Mean Green Mother This Weekend With ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’
For our senior musical play, we did Little Shop of Horrors. And like the 1986 film adaptation, it suffered its own set of problems. Some of the seniors were upset because it only had a few woman roles but that was changed. It’s not like all the girls I went to school with were JulliardContinue reading “A Mean Green Mother This Weekend With ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’”
Roger Corman Was The John The Baptist Of American Cinema
In the mid-1970s, Ron Howard was attempting to make a name for himself as a movie director after he had grown up over the years as a child actor. For a man who had appeared on two popular TV shows, been in the Oscar-nominated American Graffiti and even co-starred alongside The Duke himself John WayneContinue reading “Roger Corman Was The John The Baptist Of American Cinema”
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