The late John Saxon cameoed as an FBI agent being interviewed by the late Kelly Preston (1962-2020) in Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996). Hard to believe we lost both of these actors in the span of a couple weeks. 2020 has been a horrific year. 2020 has been a heavy-hearted year of great…
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“Battle Beyond The Stars” (1980); Roger Corman’s scrappy, campy answer to Star Wars turns 40…
The Clone Wars. Following the unexpected success of George Lucas’ “Star Wars” in 1977 (“A New Hope” wouldn’t be added to the title until years later), studios big and small were scrambling to create their own space operas. Some were embarrassingly obvious in their mimicry (Luigi Cozzi’s “Starcrash”), others gained their own cult followings (Glen…
Retro-Musings: 1966’s “Queen of Blood” shares plenty of hemoglobin with “ALIEN”…
In the 1960s, legendary guerrilla-filmmaking producer Roger Corman (whose protégés would include Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Jonathan Demme, Gale Ann Hurd and James Cameron) imported several high-end Soviet-era science fiction movies, which he recut using American-shot scenes, actors and English-language dubbing. This was a practice similar to what was done to Ishiro Honda’s 1954 atomic-bomb allegory…