Few filmmakers have been more polarizing than Leni Riefenstahl, and on this week’s episode of “The Online Movie Show” we take a look at her warped legacy. Our guest is Facebook funnyman Anthony “The Kingfish” Vitamia.
Talking with Horror Author Angie Martin [Women in Horror Month 2021]
Angie Martin is a horror obsessed author who is currently working on a slew of literary horror projects. I talk with her about her unquenchable love of horror, how Willy Wonka introduced her to the horror genre, and the pitfalls of being pigeonholed in certain horror sub-genres.
Interview with Horror Author, and Filmmaker Jamie Farthing [Women in Horror Month 2021]
photo credit: Emilie Black @emybphoto
Jamie Farthing is a horror fanatic, horror author, model, and filmmaker currently undertaking a slew of horror based film projects. Running SavageZack Productions, she’s currently developing a film for the late Tomas Navarro and much more.
The Ice Cream Truck (2017) [Women in Horror Month 2021]
Writer/director: Megan Freels Johnston
A woman and her family move back to her old suburban town for the husband’s work. As she goes ahead of the family to get things ready, she meets the neighbors and something is clearly going down around the area that is not entirely right.
Celebrating Women in Horror Month 12!
Women in Horror Month 2021 is upon us! This means that, as opposed to last year (due to momentary insanity of the schedule pre-nothing-to-do-life), this year, I want to celebrate, I want to take the time I did not have last year to really put forth the ladies of horror. I want to cover as many as I can in as many horror discipline as I can. This means that you can expect interviews from all kinds of awesome creative ladies who love to work with fear and/or blood. You’ll also get some articles about films from women in the genre and other fun stuff. I am hoping to get so much in front of your eyeballs that you will be a total fan being of Women in Horror in general.
So to start, let’s go with a bit of an overview of past articles to wet you palate for what’s to come.
The Bootleg Files: The Crunch Bird
BOOTLEG FILES 758: “The Crunch Bird” (1971 Academy Award-winning animated short).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: It was part of a Goodtimes Home Video VHS release at one point.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It seems to have fallen through the proverbial cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Only in an anthology of Oscar-winning shorts.
Here is a great question for Oscar trivia buffs: which Academy Award-winning production had the shortest running time? If you are reading this column, the answer is a bit obvious: it is “The Crunch Bird,” the 1971 winner of the Best Animated Short Subject Oscar, which only ran a mere two minutes.
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Tom and Jerry (2021)
Warner Animation props up the long rotted corpse of “Tom and Jerry” long enough to produce what I’m sure they hoped would be a blockbuster big screen adaptation. For a series that’s been languishing on video store shelves with cheaply made, watered down animated movies for years, it’s not a surprise that “Tom and Jerry” is about as bland as ever. It’s also not at all surprising that Tim Story is the man called on to deliver such an inoffensive, forgettable, mishmash of weird ideas and concepts.