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A-Z Challenge 2014: H is for Hard Ticket to Hawaii!
1987Andy Sidaris was a sports producer and director for ABC in the 60's and 70's. But he really wanted to make movies. Keeping this short - he eventually started making movies with his wife Arlene. He...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: I is for I Wanna Hold Your Hand!
1978The same guys who later made Back to the Future - got started with this wonderfully nostalgic look back at the Beatlemania craze that struck this nation when the Fab Four came to visit. It's great...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: J is for Johnny Dangerously!
1984After his successes in Night Shift and Mr. Mom, Michael Keaton made this comedy spoofing the gangster flicks of the 30's and 40's. Despite a credible cast, the movie's wild humor didn't really...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: K is for Kiss Me Deadly!
1955Although there have been other Mike Hammers in the movies and on TV - I think Ralph Meeker might have been the best of them all. He's tough, mean, and nasty - just like Mickey Spillane wrote him....
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A-Z Challenge 2014: L is for The Last Starfighter!
I purchased the novelization of this movie long before I saw it - in fact, I missed it at the theater for whatever reason and only caught up with it on home video. I really don't know why that was,...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: M is for Mad Monster Party?
1967Rankin/Bass Productions made some of the most beloved holiday TV specials from my youth. Stuff like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. But they also made feature...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: N is for Never Too Young to Die!
1986Yeah, it's a video poster - but those count too! Here's a goofy 80's James Bond takeoff that at least had the good idea to actually hire a former James Bond - George Lazenby - to seal the 007 deal....
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A-Z Challenge 2014: O is for Operation Kid Brother!
You gotta love the Italians - they do enjoy making their own versions of other people's movies. And you really gotta give it to these filmmakers - they didn't just find some hunky lantern jawed hero...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: P is for The Pirate Movie!
1982All right - I know - it's a really goofy movie - but that's the point! Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance becomes a big hit on Broadway. Movie rights are sought after and secured - a very...
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A-Z Challenger 2014: Q is for Q - The Winged Serpent!
Here's another rather glorious poster for a stop motion animated monster movie - like the C post The Crater Lake Monster - but this time the movie is very cool. The always quirky Larry Cohen wrote,...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: R is for Radioland Murders!
1994 Fair Disclosure - I worked on this movie. I was the key production assistant for the second unit, and a day player production assistant for first unit. I will tell the whole story of my work on...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: S is for Shock Waves!
1977The same year he'd done Star Wars - Peter Cushing came to Florida to film this cool little low key horror flick. He plays a psycho Nazi scientist (redundant, I know) hiding out on an uncharted...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: T is for Tarantula!
1955I have been a fan of the 1950's Big Bug movies since I was a little kid catching them on TV. This is pretty much my favorite. John Agar and the gorgeous Mara Corday run away from Leo G. Carroll's...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: U is for Up the Creek!
1984Take a couple of guys from National Lampoon's Animal House (Tim "Otter" Matheson and Stephen "Flounder" Furst) and one guy from Porky's (Dan "Pee-Wee" Monahan) - put them in a raft race with your...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: V is for Videodrome!
1983A typically challenging David Cronenberg movie - this one combining his patented "body horror" with some still topical ideas regarding cable television and what might be termed taboo entertainment....
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A-Z Challenge 2014: W is for The War Wagon!
1967I realized as I went to select the W movie that there was a whole W genre I hadn't touched on in this series - and it's a genre I really enjoy - the Western. And here's a W movie that fits the bill...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: X is for X-Ray!
1982While the pool of "X" movies battles with "Q" movies to be the smallest - at least there are crazy movies like this one available. What would seem to be a slightly late in coming standard issue...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: Y is for You Only Live Twice!
And Twice is the only way to live!1967We're nearing the end of this A-Z Challenge - and I've featured two James Bond knock-off movie posters. For those just joining us - they were - coincidentally -...
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A-Z Challenge 2014: Z is for Zero to Sixty!
1978I'm not sure why this poster is in black and white - I doubt the actual poster was - but this was a tough poster to track down at all - and the movie's just as elusive. And I have to be honest -...
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I am so thrilled to announce that Let's Get Out of Here! has been discovered by ONE HUNDRED FIFTY awesomely cool people who went on to make my day by hitting the "Follow this blog" button.This...
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