Amazon Women on the Moon
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85
Starring Lots of Actors
Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Mark Twain said “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That applies just as well to 1987’s Amazon Women on the Moon, John Landis’s unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie and the bastard child of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. Like those back-handed tributes to the disreputable entertainments of our youth, Amazon Women is a smorgasbord of comedy skits, some served up just right and others pretty half-baked—but a judicious use of the remote control and patience rewards; overall the result is a good-natured vacation for the mind with three or four laugh-out-loud vaudeville sequences and a couple of bona-fide short-form classics. The...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85
Starring Lots of Actors
Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Mark Twain said “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That applies just as well to 1987’s Amazon Women on the Moon, John Landis’s unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie and the bastard child of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. Like those back-handed tributes to the disreputable entertainments of our youth, Amazon Women is a smorgasbord of comedy skits, some served up just right and others pretty half-baked—but a judicious use of the remote control and patience rewards; overall the result is a good-natured vacation for the mind with three or four laugh-out-loud vaudeville sequences and a couple of bona-fide short-form classics. The...
- 11/10/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
By Lee Pfeiffer
It's pretty amazing how many ways studios have devised to market and re-market The Three Stooges. The latest attempt is Sony's made-to-order 3 DVD set titled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault. It's a bit misleading in that the bulk of the material pertains to individual short films starring Stooge cast members, but for this reviewer, that's also what makes the set so special. There are eleven hours of material in the set including two feature films and 28 shorts. The features are Rockin' in the Rockies, a 1945 musical comedy that features the Stooges as inept prospectors in the modern west. The film seems to have been made to promote promising musical talent of the day. The story has the boys kidnapping a Broadway talent agent and holding him hostage until he hears their friends perform their revue, which includes numbers by Spade Cooley, the "King of Western...
It's pretty amazing how many ways studios have devised to market and re-market The Three Stooges. The latest attempt is Sony's made-to-order 3 DVD set titled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault. It's a bit misleading in that the bulk of the material pertains to individual short films starring Stooge cast members, but for this reviewer, that's also what makes the set so special. There are eleven hours of material in the set including two feature films and 28 shorts. The features are Rockin' in the Rockies, a 1945 musical comedy that features the Stooges as inept prospectors in the modern west. The film seems to have been made to promote promising musical talent of the day. The story has the boys kidnapping a Broadway talent agent and holding him hostage until he hears their friends perform their revue, which includes numbers by Spade Cooley, the "King of Western...
- 5/10/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Chicago – In the 1960s, network television became the ‘cool fire’ that families gathered around, and the array of trends and shows in that era had an odd but flavorful variety. Lee Meriwether (Catwoman from the 1966 ‘Batman movie), Kathy Garver (Cissy in the sitcom ‘Family Affair’) and Robert Colbert (ensemble player on the TV drama ‘The Time Tunnel’) represented those shows.
They appeared last March at ‘The Hollywood Show,’ a twice-a-year event in which fans can mingle, take photographs and get autographs from the celebrities – like the 1960s TV and film actors – who appear there. There is also a great opportunity to purchase memorabilia from a host of showbiz vendors, all in one room. The fall session of The Hollywood Show will take place at the Hilton Rosemont Hotel on River Road in Rosemont, Ill, on September 7th, 8th and 9th, 2012. For complete details click here.
HollywoodChicago.com was at the...
They appeared last March at ‘The Hollywood Show,’ a twice-a-year event in which fans can mingle, take photographs and get autographs from the celebrities – like the 1960s TV and film actors – who appear there. There is also a great opportunity to purchase memorabilia from a host of showbiz vendors, all in one room. The fall session of The Hollywood Show will take place at the Hilton Rosemont Hotel on River Road in Rosemont, Ill, on September 7th, 8th and 9th, 2012. For complete details click here.
HollywoodChicago.com was at the...
- 9/5/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – “The Hollywood Show” comes back to Chicagoland next weekend, September 7th, 8th and 9th, and with it the usual fun line-up of celebrity TV and movie favorites. The autumn show appearances include Pam Grier, Loni Anderson, Robert Loggia, Connie Stevens, Lainie Kazan and June Lockhart.
“The Hollywood Show” is a twice-a-year event in which fans can mingle, take photographs and get autographs from the celebrities that appear there. There is also a great opportunity to purchase memorabilia from a host of showbiz vendors, all in one room. The Hollywood Show will take place at the Hilton Rosemont Hotel on River Road in Rosemont, Ill. For complete details click here.
HollywoodChicago attended the spring 2012 show, and captured Exclusive Portraits by photographer Joe Arce. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All images © Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
“The Hollywood Show” is a twice-a-year event in which fans can mingle, take photographs and get autographs from the celebrities that appear there. There is also a great opportunity to purchase memorabilia from a host of showbiz vendors, all in one room. The Hollywood Show will take place at the Hilton Rosemont Hotel on River Road in Rosemont, Ill. For complete details click here.
HollywoodChicago attended the spring 2012 show, and captured Exclusive Portraits by photographer Joe Arce. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All images © Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
- 9/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The history of cinema has had many long-running actor/director partnerships. What first springs to my mind is the long collaboration between actor John Wayne and director John Ford, which has inspired several film books and documentaries. More recently we’ve had the Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro team-ups ( although Leonardo DiCaprio may just catch up to Mr. D ). And now we have the eighth film that actor Johnny Depp has done with director Tim Burton since they first paired all the way back in 1990 for Edward Scissorhands ( Wow! ). After films based on children’s books, a low-budget filmmaker’s life, and a Broadway musical what have the duo decided to tackle now? Why, it’s a classic cult TV show from the late 1960′s : Dark Shadows. What’s their take on this supernatural soap opera?.
Time for a bit of disclosure here. During its original run on ABC television,...
Time for a bit of disclosure here. During its original run on ABC television,...
- 5/11/2012
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hey horror hounds! Courtesy of our friends at Entertainment Weekly here’s our first look at the cast of Tim Burton’s big screen version of the small screen classic, Dark Shadows. Now this is not the first time the Collins clan have made it to the movies. In 1970 MGM released House Of Dark Shadows based on the daytime drama and starring most of the TV cast. Night Of Dark Shadows followed.
Here’s a bit of background on the cult favorite. Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings) created the “soap opera ” which debuted on ABC-tv in 1966. The main focus of the first episodes was the arrival of Victoria Winters in Collinsport, Me and her interactions with the secretive Collins family. The program languished at the bottom of the ratings until Curtis, in order to save the show from cancellation,decided to take a gamble and introduce a vampire into the Gothic series.
Here’s a bit of background on the cult favorite. Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings) created the “soap opera ” which debuted on ABC-tv in 1966. The main focus of the first episodes was the arrival of Victoria Winters in Collinsport, Me and her interactions with the secretive Collins family. The program languished at the bottom of the ratings until Curtis, in order to save the show from cancellation,decided to take a gamble and introduce a vampire into the Gothic series.
- 9/22/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The music industry has a concept called the "one hit wonder." As the name states, it's a band that has only had one real hit. I have applied this concept to television, as the One Season Wonder. A One Season Wonder is a series that lasted for one season or less, and made a lasting impact on fandom. After looking back on the 50-plus years of sci-fi/fantasy programming, I present to you my top five One Season Wonders, counting down to No. 1. 5 - The Time Tunnel Airing during the 1966-67 season, .The Time Tunnel. was produced by Irwin Allen, and starred James Darren and Robert Colbert as Drs. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips. Thirty episodes were produced and aired that season. While only airing one season, this show is well remembered by genre fans as well as fans of Irwin Allen's ...
- 1/29/2010
- GeekNation.com
Author Tom Weaver, frequent Fangoria/Starlog contributor and one of the genre’s leading scholars, continues his series of books featuring interviews with horror, sci-fi, B-movie and television legends in I Talked With A Zombie. Out now from McFarland Publishing, the hefty tome features in-depth chats with 23 such personages, many of which hail from classic fantasy television.
“In addition to all the movie people interviewed in the book, there are also a number of TV stars,” Weaver tells us, going on to name a few: “Ron Harper talking about his Planet Of The Apes series and why it was so short-lived, Jimmy Lydon on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, Robert Conrad talking about the stunts of The Wild Wild West, James Darren and Robert Colbert on The Time Tunnel and my favorite, what might be the first-ever three-way chat with the three stars of Tom Corbett Space Cadet: Frankie Thomas, Jan Merlin and Al Markim.
“In addition to all the movie people interviewed in the book, there are also a number of TV stars,” Weaver tells us, going on to name a few: “Ron Harper talking about his Planet Of The Apes series and why it was so short-lived, Jimmy Lydon on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, Robert Conrad talking about the stunts of The Wild Wild West, James Darren and Robert Colbert on The Time Tunnel and my favorite, what might be the first-ever three-way chat with the three stars of Tom Corbett Space Cadet: Frankie Thomas, Jan Merlin and Al Markim.
- 11/18/2008
- Fangoria
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