"Life's A Beach"
By Lee Pfeiffer
When it comes to defining cinematic guilty pleasures, one need not look any further than the lame-brained beach movies that were marketed to teenagers in the mid-1960s. The formula started in 1963 with "Beach Party", teaming Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon for the first time as loved-starved teens who are addicted to fun and sun in the surf. The film was such a hit that it spawned numerous sequels, delighting producers Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson and American International, which was mining gold by making big profits from low-budget productions. The beach series didn't vary much in terms of content and many of the most popular actors were utilized in each successive film. There were also simlarly-themed films starring Avalon in different geographical settings. But if the beach series burned brightly, its flame was short-lived. By 1965, the young audiences that initially craved...
By Lee Pfeiffer
When it comes to defining cinematic guilty pleasures, one need not look any further than the lame-brained beach movies that were marketed to teenagers in the mid-1960s. The formula started in 1963 with "Beach Party", teaming Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon for the first time as loved-starved teens who are addicted to fun and sun in the surf. The film was such a hit that it spawned numerous sequels, delighting producers Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson and American International, which was mining gold by making big profits from low-budget productions. The beach series didn't vary much in terms of content and many of the most popular actors were utilized in each successive film. There were also simlarly-themed films starring Avalon in different geographical settings. But if the beach series burned brightly, its flame was short-lived. By 1965, the young audiences that initially craved...
- 11/6/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 6th edition last Thursday with the sold-out closing night East Coast Premiere of Rob Jabbaz’s The Sadness at Nitehawk Cinema and announced today its jury and audience award winners. Launching on October 14th with the NY Premiere of Mlungu Wam (Good Madam), Brooklyn Horror is proud to have welcomed back an eager and excited audience who packed the cinemas after a one year pandemic related hiatus and hosted a majority of sold-out screenings, with special highlights being the festival’s 35mm projection of Session 9, presented for its 20th anniversary with lead actor and co-writer Stephen Gevedon in attendance, and the US Premiere of local filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti’s debut The Last Thing Mary Saw, with Rory Culkin and Vitaletti present for the Q&a.
Further highlights of the festival include the world premieres of Adam Randall’s Netflix Original vampire feature Night Teeth...
Further highlights of the festival include the world premieres of Adam Randall’s Netflix Original vampire feature Night Teeth...
- 10/25/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Frank Sinatra's Former Flame Opens up About Their Relationship: "I Made Him Laugh a Lot" (Exclusive)
They were the funniest valentines. "I was a meditating, vegetarian hippie, and he was a meat-eating, boozing, ultra-famous person," Irene Tsu, 73, exclusively told Closer Weekly of randomly meeting Frank Sinatra at a Miami hotel circa 1970. "That’s how our two-year date started." She made him feel so young. Frank was in his 50s, having recently split from Mia Farrow, and Irene — who'd co-starred with Elvis Presley and John Wayne (The Green Berets) — was in her 20s. "I made him laugh a lot," Irene recalled. "I brought him an elaborate train set from Japan, and we spent hours putting it together, rolling on the floor, laughing, and eating popcorn." Irene in 'Laredo' in 1967 with William Smith. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Irene and Frank mostly stayed at his Palm Springs, CA home, where he welcomed celeb pals like Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, and Herb Alpert. "He was so good to his guests — everything you ever wanted,...
- 8/19/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
Presumably due to the alleged post-Avatar fame factor of Zoe Saldana, this 2006 movie has just hit selected theaters in the United States. Certainly, there can be no other reason for any distributor (in this case, Freestyle Releasing, who also brought us Dragon Wars, The Collector, and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell) to invest in what plays like a student film out of Tisch by some spoiled undergrad whose parents unquestioningly paid full tuition just to keep their kid out of their basement. As such, The Heart Specialist appears to be inspired by hospital-based television dramedy, but production values are exceedingly low to the point that this crap would never even make it onto daytime television. While a bare-bones approach isn't unusual for a small-budget labor of love, this movie doesn't even bother with opening titles, so the shift from opening previews to the actual movie is rather...
- 1/17/2011
- by Agent Bedhead
In "Three Rivers", the wife of a billionaire suffers the consequences after a setback leaves her without a new liver and her husband resorts to buying one on the black market. Meanwhile, a friend from Andy's past resurfaces.
In "Cold Case", the team reopens a 1983 case, originally investigated by Stillman, of a teenage Chinese-American who was slain before he could obtain justice for his girlfriend who was killed by one of many bullets unleashed at a festival by Chinese gang members.
The "Rivers" episode is called "The Kindness of Strangers". Kevin Rahm and Heather Mazur guest star as John and Tracey Allen, the billionaire couple. Meanwhile, the "Case" episode is simply called "Chinatown" and it lines-up a number of guest stars including Kemp Lee, Raymond Ma, Gina Chai, Irene Tsu, Johnny Wu and Taya Rogers.
Three Rivers
Cold Case...
In "Cold Case", the team reopens a 1983 case, originally investigated by Stillman, of a teenage Chinese-American who was slain before he could obtain justice for his girlfriend who was killed by one of many bullets unleashed at a festival by Chinese gang members.
The "Rivers" episode is called "The Kindness of Strangers". Kevin Rahm and Heather Mazur guest star as John and Tracey Allen, the billionaire couple. Meanwhile, the "Case" episode is simply called "Chinatown" and it lines-up a number of guest stars including Kemp Lee, Raymond Ma, Gina Chai, Irene Tsu, Johnny Wu and Taya Rogers.
Three Rivers
Cold Case...
- 11/16/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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