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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Roger Corman's output through the years may not be immediately familiar, but he's been a wide conduit for emerging talent and raw creativity. That's why he's finally been given an Oscar "OK, so, November 14th 2009, Roger Corman receives an Oscar. People … what took you so long?" The words of Jonathan Demme in his speech before handing over the statuette to Corman on that fateful evening....
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Woot! - One Day, One Deal (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Presenting the second in a series of probing debates on the least controversial issues of our time. For this installment of Point/Otherpoint, Jason Hinklin-Lauderdale and Scott Lydon come to verbal blows over a beloved Thanksgiving tradition. No, not canned cranberry sauce. That debate was settled long ago: it's gross. Macy's? Why Don't You Just Mace Me? by Scott Lydon Now, let’s be fair, the...
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Super Punch (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Circa 1954, photos of the making of the Disney version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Via these sites . And a few more links: 1. Martin Scorsese, William Shatner and more share memories of working for Roger Corman. 2. Online Media Legal Network can help connect bloggers/website operators with free legal service. 3. Great graphics in this vintage Czech tourist map . 4. Female Sith Lord (nudity)....
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The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 is one of those cult TV shows that really doesn’t need a review. Fans love it and will buy volumes without even looking at what is on it. For them, I am happy to say that VOLUME XVI is another very nice set from Shout! Factory. This is a 4 DVD set. It is housed with a collectible Tom Servo figurine, everyone’s favorite robot made from a bubblegum machine. There...
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Brian Salisbury is back with another movie so bad, it's also good. This time he dips into the catalogue of Roger Corman and unearths a galactically-bound remake of The Seven Samurai.
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This is a peripheral Matt Drudge-like posting and I'm sorry, but as soon as I heard the term "dino-chickens" I was hooked. In my entire life I've never heard this term, and I'm speaking as a guy who once wrote a Roger Corman- or George Pal-type script called Killer Chickens. The size of ostriches, out for blood, looking to settle a score with humans...screaming overall-clad victims being...
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SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Famed genre director and producer Roger Corman has received an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Governors Awards.
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Michael May's Adventureblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
War-Gods of the Deep is a pretty misleading title, but then, almost everything about this movie is misleading. It has some really awesome parts, but there's also a fair bit of disappointment. For one thing, there are no war-gods. In fact, there's no war. That part of the title is apparently meant to disguise for US audiences that this is a British adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The City Under...
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The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yesterday, Devin Faraci of the movie website C.H.U.D. posted the following to his Twitter, I can't believe Cinematical is running an Oscar story shit-talking Roger Corman! That hurts. So I found the offending article, Hints About 2010 Oscars Emerge: No More Five-Person Presenting by Eric D. Snider, right there at the top. It says, "Corman, who has directed more than 50 films and produced nearly...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
[Note: Scott Weinberg has the pro side of this argument -- why Roger Corman does deserve an Oscar -- in an article that will run later today.] In a post yesterday about the honorary Academy Awards given out over the weekend, I said this about one of the recipients, Roger Corman: "Corman, who has directed more than 50 films and produced nearly 400 (!), has never been nominated for an Oscar, probably...
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Lifetime Piling Up (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
So apparently, this past Saturday, Roger Corman, King of the Bs, got an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Career Achievement. Personally, I think this is awesome. Let's ignore his often-referenced "finds" of actors & directors who'd go on to great careers of their own and let me list off my reasons why I'm happy to hear this. 1. He Tried to Kill "Waterworld": Corman was the first...
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This ability to make art on a murderously short shooting schedule with no money and reused sets (or cleverly-shot practical locations) was passed on by Corman to his most adroit proteges: Dante had a low-budget, homage-heavy blast with PIRANHA; Cameron willed a sci-fi classic out of next-to-nothing in THE TERMINATOR; and Peter Bogdanovich used two contract-mandated days of Boris Karloff to pull off...
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Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
You could be forgiven for not realizing the Oscars embarrassed themselves two times in a single weekend. First of all they called attention to the fact that Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall don’t have Oscars. Though he’s a cinema giant, it’s fair to say Roger Corman hasn’t exactly trafficked in Oscar type material so we’ll [...]
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