Blogathon Alert :: Whaddaya Call It When You Play Multiple Roles and then Kill Yourselves Onscreen Multiple Times? Well, We're Gonna Find Out!

There's an apocryphal story told by actor Dick Miller about the time Roger Corman hired him as an extra for Apache Woman (1955), where they filmed a scene where he played an Indian fleeing from some pursuing cowboys, and once that shot was completed, Corman told Miller to ditch the wig, wipe off the warpaint, change costumes, and put on a hat for the next shot of the pursuing cowboys, so, essentially, Miller was chasing himself in the same edited scene. Over the years since this story has been embellished on occasions, where Miller also wound up shooting himself as well. Now, this kind of frugal improvising and maximizing resources (and time-space paradoxes) were a trademark of any Corman production, but I don't think he ever improvised more or maximized anyone else as hilariously as he did with Beach Dickerson, another one of his stock-players, in his prehistoric "epic", Teenage Caveman (1958).

Thus and so, have I got a tale of multiple deaths, multiple resurrections, costume changes, and a dubious incident involving a bear costume for you, Boils and Ghouls, when Christiana Wenher and Silver Screenings launch the Dual Roles Blogathon due to hit in late September. So, stay tuned! 

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Twitter Me This, Boils and Ghouls! Also, Another Blogathon Alert.

It took me nearly four years to truly embrace it, but embrace it I finally have. Yeah, when I first got lured into the Twitterverse like some errant child chasing the promise of a puppy into a stranger's van, I found the whole experience to be a bit stalkery and too constrictive. But now. Now I get it. I think. Anyhoo, if you enjoy my ramblings and reviews here at the Brewery, I encourage you to also follow my Twitter account, found in one easy step by clicking here, as well. There, you will find update alerts on all our consortium of blogs, and running commentaries on whatever I'm watching, including pics and snap-vids to use as evidence to back up all outlandish claims and observations for things like Doctor Strange (1978), Jaws 3 (1983), and Thunderball (1963) plus a whole lot more with a whole lot more to come. 

And while we're on the subject of shameless plugs, I've also answered the call to participate in The Great Villain Blogathon for the fine folks at The Speakeasy, Silver Screenings, and Shadows and Satin. And while the film I chose is technically chock-full of villains, I will be focusing on George Kennedy's take on Red Leary in Michael Cimino's seminal rural crime caper, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). Cannot wait to dig into it.

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Blogathan Alert :: Turns Out the Bees Aren't Always Our Friends, and Sometimes an Earthquake is Just an Earthquake.

What's behind Door #1? Well, the fine folks at Cinematic Catharsis have sounded the call for the Nature's Fury Blogathon and Me, Myself, and I have answered this siren hootenanny and will be participating this coming June. For more details on what it is and what qualifies, and how to get involved, click on over for a handy FAQ and sign up sheet. Slots are filling up fast, so you'd best hurry. As for me, well, I'll be take a gander at this:

See! What happens when a whackadoodle Baboon interrupts an ersatz game of Dungeons and Dragons and murders everyone. Be there, or be square, Boils and Ghouls. 

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Announcements :: We're Back! And Stay Tuned. It's Gonna Be Big. Huge! Colossal Even.

The sabbatical's over, Boils and Ghouls,
 and Hubrisween is almost here.

Five Blogs. Five Bloggers.

26 days. 26 films. 26 reviews.

A thru Z.

Launching October 6 and crashing on Hallowe'en 2015. 

Exiting, Stage Left.

Holy crap, but it's that time of year again folks. E'yup, the Annual September Sabbatical is upon us, which means I will back away from the keyboard and let my typing knuckles scab over for a whole calendar month. Well, almost, as I will be bobbing to the surface long enough to post in The Celluloid Zeroes latest roundtable:

As to what I will be reviewing for that, well, it's a surprise. But not that big of one when I tell you a giant Were-Spider is involved. And when we officially return in October, I will be joining another motley consortium of blogs for Hubrisween III, a 26 day-straight Alphabetical Horror Movie Marathon, starting with Anthropophagus (1980) and ending with Zombie Lake (1980) with all kinds of surprises in-between.

And then, following that up in November, I will be participating in The Criterion Blogathon, which should be self-explanatory enough.

And to what I will be covering? Oh, just a bunch of murdering disembodied brains hopping around in this:

So, yeah, time to recharge the mental batteries a bit before tackling all of that. Fear not, I shall return. Until then, stay cool, Boils and Ghouls. Now play us out, boys...

Video courtesy of paulallen360.
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Blogathon Alert :: Keep Watching the Skies!

Listen up, Boils and Ghouls!

Once again the fine folks at Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod and Wonders in the Dark are hosting another For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon to raise money to help preserve our film heritage for future generations. This year’s theme is Sci-Fi, HOORAY! Thus and so, the Brewery is giddily answering the call to participate. And what will I be putting under the microscope? Oh, just this little nugget of the awesome:

It's better than you'd think. Honest. Well, sort of.

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Blogathon Alert! :: Celebrating the Cinema and Scope of CinemaScope!

“Before IMAX, there was CinemaScope – basically, movies filmed in a much wider image than had been the norm up to that point in film history. The curved-screen image of Cinerama was the predecessor, but CinemaScope was what 20th Century Fox and other major Hollywood studios used for many of their movies throughout the 50s and 60s, and some of the greatest films of all time, in a wide variety of genres, were filmed in CinemaScope.”

                                                      — Wide Screen World

Thus, Micro-Brewed Reviews and Scenes from the Morgue have answered ClassicBecky’s Brain Food and Wide Screen World’s call for participants for The CinemaScope Blogathon. Over at the Morgue, I won't be focusing on one film but a whole bunch of films focusing on the pomp and ballyhoo as this bold new process was first rolled out in late 1953 and beyond. As for the Brewery, I'm gonna tackle one of my most favorite movies of all time:
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Should be a blast.

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Blogathons Ahoy! We're Gonna Whip 'Em. Whip 'Em Good.

Following several enticing bread crumbs, I now find myself happily participating in Silver Screenings and The Rosebud Cinema's 1967 Blogathon. (Of course, I just wrote up In the Heat of the Night. *sigh*). And while I contemplated venturing into the lunatic sleaze-noir of Michael and Roberta Findlay's The Touch of Her Flesh, I decided to tackle something just as demented instead:

a/k/a The College Girl Murders, one of Rialto film's most whackadoodle Edgar Wallace adaptations. And if I manage to survive that, I've also got a few thought on The Born Losers I'm dying to share.

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And coming up in July, I've also wrangled a spot in Krell Labs and Bemused and Nonplussed's John Ford Blogathon. And for that, well, since I just wrote up Fort Apache (*double sigh*), I guess I'll just have to settle on this one. Anybody heard of it?

I'd been noodling a write-up on this film ever since finally reading Alan Le May's novel last year and picking it up the BluRay, where I finally noticed something -- something you'll have to wait and read to find out what. And now, at last, proper motivation to actually get it done. (And if I get my crap together, I'll also take a run at Donovan's Reef.)

Stay tuned, Boils and Ghouls.