Valerie Perrine was one of the most beautiful and dynamic stars of the 1970s and 1980s, bringing vibrancy and charm to such memorable films as “Slaughterhouse Five,” “Lenny” (for which she received an Oscar nomination), “Superman” and the unfairly maligned “Can’t Stop the Music.” On this episode, we celebrate Valerie Perrine’s legacy with Stacey Souther, director of the new documentary “Valerie.”
BOOTLEG FILES 800: “Nirvana” (re-edited version of the 1951 Laurel and Hardy feature “Atoll K”).
LAST SEEN: Available for private request screenings.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A bit of a copyright issue.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
Before I begin this week’s column, I want to pause and point out that this is the 800th entry in The Bootleg Files series that began in September 2003 on Film Threat before becoming part of Cinema Crazed in February 2017. My goodness, I cannot believe that there have been 800 entries in this weekly column! I need to give my deepest and sincerest thanks to Felix Vasquez Jr., publisher and editor at Cinema Crazed, for providing The Bootleg Files with a loving home, and I need to thank the readers of this long, long, long-running series for checking in with me every Friday – I’ve ton too much writing in the course of my career, but this is the achievement that has been the true labor of love. Okay, enough gushing – on with the show!
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Two women hiking through the desert to their possible freedom from a cult are confronted by the reality that leaving this cult may not be as simple as physically leaving it. Continue reading
A young girl whose mother has set impossibly high standards for finds an egg in the woods and decide to raise it as her own. What hatches from the egg is something otherworldly and a bit shocking. As she bonds with this being, her life takes many unexpected turns.
BOOTLEG FILES 799: “The Seven Stooges” (2014 animated short inspired by the Three Stooges).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: The film did not clear the trademarks associated with the Three Stooges characters.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Definitely not.
I was not planning to devote this week’s column to an animated fairy tale inspired by the Three Stooges, but YouTube posted “The Seven Stooges” in a list of recommended videos and my initial reaction was “Huh?”
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On this week’s episode of “The Online Movie Show,” the spotlight is on Paul and Jade Schuyler, who used their lockdown time during the Covid-19 pandemic to create the acclaimed film “Red River Road” with their family in their home.
The episode can be heard here.
A woman who was in denial of being sick finds out she is a very short period from her own death. Following this shocking news, she decides to get a clone to replace her in her life and that of those around her to lessen the hurt to them. Following a happy turn in her health, her clone is scheduled to be decommissioned, which the clone goes against. This leads to them having to have a dual to the death.