Stay Home and Watch THE OFFICIAL ROBIN WILLIAMS YOU TUBE CHANNEL!

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Cinema Crazed

LAUGH IT UP AS TIME LIFE PROMOTES STAYING HOME AND LAUNCHES THE OFFICIAL ROBIN WILLIAMS YOUTUBE CHANNEL, CELEBRATING THE ICON’S INIMITABLE GENIUS

The Channel is now a Digital Home for Williams’ Classic Sketches and Exclusive Extras, with Five Clips and Debuts a New Clip Each Week!

This April Fools’ Day, the comedy connoisseurs at Time Life launched The Official Robin Williams YouTube Channel, celebrating Robin’s comic genius. Whether you know Robin from the stage or from the screen, as a comedian, an alien, or a genie-home audiences can subscribe to the channel and be prepared to laugh and cry at unforgettable and hilarious performances by the singular talent.

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The Quarry (2020)

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Emilie Black

A man kills the one person who has helped in and takes his place as the preacher to a small community of immigrants. As the local police searches for a killer, his conscience starts acting up.

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Rootwood (2020)

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Emilie Black

A film producer reaches out to two podcasters to get them to shoot a documentary about murder and a demon in a wooded area near Los Angeles. They head to the location to gather footage and evidence, bringing along a photographer they know for help. Once there, they get exactly what they were looking for and maybe a bit more.

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Wheeler and Woolsey: The Pre-Code Funnymen

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Phil Hall

Few comics took full advantage of the loose standards of Pre-Code Hollywood with more gusto than the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. In this episode of “The Online Movie Show,” film historian and podcaster Geno Cuddy offers insight on the duo’s saucy on-screen antics and classic routines.

The episode can be heard here.

The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020)

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Emilie Black

The Ventures are the number one instrumental rock group in the world and everyone has heard at least one of their tracks. To celebrate their 60th anniversary in the business, this documentary digs into where they are from, what makes them so popular, and what’s next for a group that’s been around since the 1960s.

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Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980): 40th Anniversary Limited Edition [Blu-Ray]

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Felix Vasquez

Full Disclosure: Film Detective were kind enough to allow us viewing of the digital elements of “Fist of Fear…” for the purposes of this review, since the release of the Limited Edition Blu-Ray and DVD have been delayed indefinitely due to the ensuing worldwide pandemic. Pre-orders are still open and Film Detective are ensuring copies to consumers when they’re given the green light to continue manufacturing.

There’s a hilarious segment in “The Simpsons” episode “Homer Badman” where Homer is interviewed by tabloid reporter Godfry Jones who promises to redeem his image after he’s accused of groping a young girl. Jones expectedly exploits Homer for the sake of ratings, editing the interview to make Homer look bad. But the editing is so awful that it’s an obvious hack job, and you can’t help but laugh at the sheer shamelessness of it all. The same can be said for “Fist of Fear, Touch of Death” the sheer height of Brucesploitation that takes scraps from Bruce Lee’s career and repurposes, re-edits, and splices footage in to just a god awful faux-documentary/sports drama.

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