This week we realize we've gotta get out of these bodies, Andy.
First up, guest Kevin Merryman from the excellent pop culture blog Cultural Atrocities brings us 1991's Motorama, a bizarre road movie about a 10 year old who leaves his abusive household in hopes of winning a contest. The film features cameos from a variety of cult icons including; Mary Woronov, Susan Tyrrell, Flea, Dick Miller and tons more.
Then we play "Hide the Soul" with Chucky as we examine the film that made a star out of a doll possessed with the soul of a serial killer in the iconic horror film Child's Play from 1988.
And finally, half of us watch and discuss 1989's Lobster Man from Mars starring Tony Curtis, a parody of '50s monster movies, that also serves as a film-within-a-film.
Also, we have Nerds News, this week's DVD and Blu-Ray releases and much more!
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First up, guest Kevin Merryman from the excellent pop culture blog Cultural Atrocities brings us 1991's Motorama, a bizarre road movie about a 10 year old who leaves his abusive household in hopes of winning a contest. The film features cameos from a variety of cult icons including; Mary Woronov, Susan Tyrrell, Flea, Dick Miller and tons more.
Then we play "Hide the Soul" with Chucky as we examine the film that made a star out of a doll possessed with the soul of a serial killer in the iconic horror film Child's Play from 1988.
And finally, half of us watch and discuss 1989's Lobster Man from Mars starring Tony Curtis, a parody of '50s monster movies, that also serves as a film-within-a-film.
Also, we have Nerds News, this week's DVD and Blu-Ray releases and much more!
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- 6/15/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Kevin, Mark & Parker)
His wife was the female starlet killed in Psycho, his daughter was the star of Halloween and he was a huge star himself. We're talking about, respectively, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Curtis. Bronxite Tony Curtis passed away today at the age of 85, with hundreds of screen credits under his belt dating back to the late 40's. We loved him as Stony Curtis on The Flintstones, Harry Houdini and the Boston Strangler, but he also had genre roles in 1983's "Brainwaves," in 1989 in the comedy "Lobster Man from Mars" and the anthology film ...
- 9/30/2010
- by Charles F. Rosenay aka Cryptmaster Chiller Chucky, Horror Happenings Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
At the height of his career in show business he was one of Hollywood's most recognized faces. He also became a sex symbol to millions of women. Actor Tony Curtis, who appeared in over 120 movies during the course of his seven decades on the screen, died yesterday from a heart attack at the age of 85.
Curtis' most well-known role was as a 1920s jazz musician on the lam from gangsters in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. Paired opposite Jack Lemmon, the two dressed up as women and joined an all-female band to hide from the bad guys. Curtis' character had a romantic attraction to Marilyn Monroe in the film. Off-screen, the actor also enjoyed an affair with the blonde starlet. In fact, Curtis began to cultivate a reputation as a ladies man and lothario, a fact that destroyed several of his six marriages throughout the course of...
Curtis' most well-known role was as a 1920s jazz musician on the lam from gangsters in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. Paired opposite Jack Lemmon, the two dressed up as women and joined an all-female band to hide from the bad guys. Curtis' character had a romantic attraction to Marilyn Monroe in the film. Off-screen, the actor also enjoyed an affair with the blonde starlet. In fact, Curtis began to cultivate a reputation as a ladies man and lothario, a fact that destroyed several of his six marriages throughout the course of...
- 9/30/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Actor whose good looks and charm took him to the heights of Hollywood with films such as Some Like It Hot and The Defiant Ones
Born into a family of Hungarian Jews who had emigrated to the Us, Bernard Schwartz – the boy who became the actor Tony Curtis – could scarcely have dreamed of the wealth, fame and rollercoaster life that awaited him. Curtis, who has died aged 85, starred in several of the best films of the 1950s, including Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Defiant Ones (1958) and Some Like It Hot (1959). He enjoyed a long career thanks to his toughness and resilience (despite insecurities that demanded years of therapy).
He grew up in the Bronx, New York, the eldest of three sons. As a child, he was ill-treated by his mother, Helen, and spent time in an orphanage. One of his brothers, Robert, was a schizophrenic and the other, Julius, was...
Born into a family of Hungarian Jews who had emigrated to the Us, Bernard Schwartz – the boy who became the actor Tony Curtis – could scarcely have dreamed of the wealth, fame and rollercoaster life that awaited him. Curtis, who has died aged 85, starred in several of the best films of the 1950s, including Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Defiant Ones (1958) and Some Like It Hot (1959). He enjoyed a long career thanks to his toughness and resilience (despite insecurities that demanded years of therapy).
He grew up in the Bronx, New York, the eldest of three sons. As a child, he was ill-treated by his mother, Helen, and spent time in an orphanage. One of his brothers, Robert, was a schizophrenic and the other, Julius, was...
- 9/30/2010
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
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