We wrap up our brief return to our Disease Films series with George Pan Cosmatos’ turn to tackle the 70s disaster film. We’ve got a disease on a train. We’ve got the pursuit of a drug mule. And we’ve got Lee Strasberg carrying lots of expositional weight. It’s The Cassandra Crossing.
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We kick off our return to our disease films series with a trip up to Canada to the small town of Pontypool, Ontario. That’s right, it’s the shock jock War of the Worlds-esque zombie story, Bruce McDonald’s 2008 film ‘Pontypool.’
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We conclude our One-and-Done series with a banger – the fascinating story of a confidence man, made by a confident filmmaker that frustratingly never got to make another film. It’s Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s 1989 film “Chameleon Street.”
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We continue our one-and-done series with Stephen Chiodo’s and the Chiodo Brothers’ crazy alien clown film. That’s right, it’s time for “Killer Klowns from Outer Space”!
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We kick off our member bonus celebration of Roger Corman, which will run all of season 14. Our members voted, and the first conversation is a look at Corman’s 1960 film “The Little Shop of Horrors.”
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We continue our One-and-Done series with Bruce Lee’s single turn in the director’s chair. That’s right, we’re heading to the Coliseum as Bruce takes on Chuck Norris in Lee’s 1972 film The Way of the Dragon!
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Dalton Trumbo’s Controversial Anti-War Classic In 1971, blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo adapted his own 1939 anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun for the big screen. The film marked Trumbo’s directorial debut and only feature film as director. Set during World War I, the story follows a young American soldier who becomes a quadruple amputee after…
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We continue our One-and-Done series, looking at filmmakers who only directed one feature film, with Barbara Loden’s cinema verité film “Wanda” from 1970, a film that feels experimental and is divisive for viewers.
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We continue our One-and-Done series looking at Leonard Kastle’s fictionalized recounting of the Loney Heart Killers’ brutal crimes in the 40s with his only film, The Honeymoon Killers.
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We kick off our One-and-Done series with the only feature film that Herk Harvey, who mainly directed industrial and educational films, made. It’s the moody, haunted 1962 film ‘Carnival of Souls.’
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