Ron Howard wanted to move away from acting and settle into directing, but because of his commitments to Happy Days production houses were reticent to let him take the center seat on for a big feature film despite his success directing and starring in Grand Theft Auto for Roger Corman. An agreement was reached if…
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Northern Exposure (1991) – All Is Vanity, and What I Did For Love
It’s a little warmer in Cicely, Alaska this week, and there is a lot going on, and it all relates to vanity, it’s all there in the title. All Is Vanity was written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider and debuted on 22 April, 1991. Holling (John Cullum) goes to see Joel (Rob Morrow) after…
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) – Andre Ovredal
Andre Ovredal’s first English language film is a very well-crafted and viscerally terrifying film starring Biran Cox, Emile Hirsch and Olwen Catherine Kelly. Cox and Hirsch play father and son, Tommy and Austin Tilden who run a morgue and crematorium. Austin has dreams of getting out of the business and town, and taking his girlfriend,…
Hill Street Blues (1986) – Two Easy Pieces, and Say It as It Plays
Belker (Bruce Weitz) is working undercover and things go unexpectedly on the night he and Robin (Lisa Sutton) are supposed to get married. Two Easy Pieces was written by Jacob Epstein, Dick Wolf, and Robert Ward from a story by Jeffrey Lewis, Walon Green, and David Milch. It was first broadcast on 9 January, 1986….
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) – Joseph Zito
Back when I first started the blog, I got through the first three Friday the 13th films, and kind of stalled. Now, here I am ten years later, continuing the journey with Jason (Ted White in this film) as I explore the beautiful Shout! blu-ray box set. This is the last film released that still…
The Jungle Captive (1945) -Harold Young
The next title in DK Canada’s brilliantly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies, is a sequel to the last film I watched from the book, Captive Wild Woman. Once again a mad scientist, Stendahl (Otto Kruger) experiments on a monstrous ape (the name of the chapter I’m in, and supposedly is the same creature from Captive…
War of the Worlds (1988) – To Heal the Leper, and The Good Samaritan
The battle continues, and one has to wonder how badly Earth is losing to the Morthren… To Heal the Leper is the first episode this week. It was written by David Tynan, and first broadcast on 21 November, 1988 (by which time, I had already recorded Harrison Blackwood’s (Jared Martin) intro and the opening theme…
The Twilight Zone (1961) – A Penny for Your Thoughts, Twenty Two and The Odyssey of Flight 33
Paramount Pictures plunges me further into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. First up is A Penny for Your Thoughts. Written by George Clayton Johnson, the episode premiered on 3 February, 1961. When bank clerk Hector B. Poole (Dick York) tosses a coin to a newspaper vendor it lands on its edge and…
Hot Docs 2016: Obit – Vanessa Gould
Having its international premiere this evening at 9:15 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, is what may be my favorite documentary at the festival so far. With additional screenings on Tuesday May 3 at 3:45 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, and again at 9:15 on Saturday May 7, with a final screening at the…
The Mind Reels Visits Murdoch Mysteries
It was a sweltering July day, the 15th to be exact, when Sue and I disembarked from our bus in what felt like the middle of nowhere. And even then there was a walk through more nowhere, and down an unsuspecting road, until we stumbled ont our destination for the day. From the front, this rather…
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