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.
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...
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule celebrates it’s fifth birthday today in high style. Like many in the film blogosphere, I owe a lot to the cite’s proprietor and sole contributor, Dennis Cozzalio, for his support and encouragement when pretty much no one was paying attention. And the weird part came when we both figured [...]
Famed genre director and producer Roger Corman has received an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Governors Awards.
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
This was on this week in the UK as part of Channel 4’s 3D week which I’ve become increasingly excited about since I first heard about it (it’s not hard to get me onto a 3D kick really). This was to me the clear star item on their schedule, not just because it had never [...]
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 [...]
As you've probably already heard, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is shaking things up at this year's Oscars by having 10 Best Picture nominees instead of five, and by moving the honorary awards (read: the boring part of the show) to a special ceremony of their own. That ceremony will be held in November, and-- holy crap, it was this weekend! The almost-Oscars were on Saturday! They're...
It's been a long time coming, but Roger Corman has finally received his Oscar. At the annual Governors Awards ceremony, honoring the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients,...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month. Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month. Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November...