A quick, last minute reminder… Mike and I (aka “LFP International”) will be on WGDR (91.1 Fm) tomorrow morning (June 4th) at 7 am to talk about our upcoming Flight Night show. Tune in on the dial if you can, or listen streaming here.
My gawd, we had a fun time coming up with this. Have a listen, and hope to see you there this Friday.
Stay tuned for more as the date gets closer. This movie’s a real hoot about a group of juvenile delinquents who overrun a school… selling dope, prostitution, bullying, you name it… until they push one teacher too far, that is. A splendid time is guaranteed for all, and it’s a great deal, a lot cheaper than going out to a bar and listening to some band you probably don’t care about. (click for larger)
Ok, so last night, Mike and I did something I’ve never done before, watched three movies in a row, enhanced by the consumption of Chinese food. We watched Class of 1984 (which I’ve praised on here, repeatedly), the abysmal Troll 2, and 1990: The Bronx Warriors, an Italian ripoff of The Warriors. Soooo, we’ve decided the next Flight Night film screening event (tentatively scheduled confirmed for Friday, June 5th at the Lamb Abbey in Montpelier is Class of 1984. Have a lookie:
As we get further into this, we’re finding that with these B-movies, it’s all about the pacing. You can have atrocious acting, directing, and screenwriting, but if it’s shown at a reasonable pace, it still makes for a very entertaining watch. However, when you get a scene where instead of just showing a guy entering a room, they show him doing nothing but walking to the room for 5 whole minutes, you find your attention wandering rather quickly. Class of 1984 is not bottom-of-the-barrel crap, moreso a good, highly entertaining B-movie cult flick with excellent pacing; the film moves along at a good, brisk pace. Y’all are gonna dig it.
Also, we realized that 35 minutes of trailers and then a movie was a bit too much. We’re scaling back the trailers to 5 instead f 15. Like I said, pacing, baby. I’ll put more up here as we get closer.
Seven Days’ Alice Levitt wrote up a great article about our cult movie event in today’s Seven Days, go have a read here.
My gawd, I still haven’t recovered from this weekend. I am utterly useless today. I don’t even have the energy to mock the latest faux right-wing outrage (the “Chavez handshake’). It’s funny, I read somewhere this morning that all this petty harping on the stupidest shit imaginable by the right-wing about Obama somehow showing “weakness” is really a sign of their own weaknesses, in that the best they can come up with is these stupid non-issues because they have nothing substantive to offer. They have no credible foreign policy to speak of at this point, seeing how well the professional wrestling approach they’ve pushed for the last 8 years just ain’t so sexy anymore. Or credibility on just about anything else at this point.
The first Flight Night Badfilm night went off without a hitch. Attendance was about what I expected for the first time, but that’ll grow. It was a learning experience. We made way too much popcorn, that’s for sure, and have enough concessions for at least the next three or four events, minimum.
Anyways, if you were there and are reading this, thanks for coming. We’re hoping this is the start of something special.
(click on the poster for larger image)
Ok, it’s finally here, people. This Saturday, April 18th, at the Lamb Abbey in Montpelier. I don’t have much to say that the poster and the below audio spot won’t tell you, but I’d just want to add that this is our first one, so we need a good turnout if this is gonna continue. We’re definitely bringing something unique to Vermont, for better or worse. Hopefully it won’t cause too much damage. There’s something in the evening guaranteed to offend everyone, so please come and have a blast. And if I don’t know you, make sure you come up and lemme know you saw it here on FBC. Thanks.
Here’s the audio spot for our upcoming grindhouse film event, Saturday, August 18th in Montpelier, 9pm. Give the player a second or so to load. Enjoy. I’ll be posting it again shortly before ths show.
Another on of those “so bad it’s amazingly awesome!” movies. I saw this one last week. It’s loaded with lots of hot women disco dancing, of course (and some bodybuilder guy with an afro and the tightest short shorts I’ve ever seen, doing roller disco), lots of horribly choreographed kung-fu (which, oddly, EVERYONE who fights seems to know), the unique “acting” of Rudy Ray “Dolemite” Moore, and some silly plot about the angel dust epidemic that was going on for a while back in the late 70′s/early 80′s. I thought cocaine was the disco drug, wha’ happened?
Last week, I mentioned the project I have in the works to bring the art of the grindhouse to central Vermont, a place that it is sorely needed, as we do tend to be filled with a lot of easygoing, good-natured, kind people that are really sometimes a bit uptight once you take them out of their comfort zone. Although I’m going to break out the official press release sometime next week, here’s the gist of it: my friend Mike and I are starting something called Night Flight: Badfilm/Psychotronic. On Saturday, April 18th, at the Lamb Abbey in Montpelier, we’ll be giving a talk on the basics of grindhouse/exploitation cinema, then we’ll be showing about a half hour or so of trailers (just like the ones you see on here all of the time), followed by a showing of the blaxploitation classic, Three The Hard Way, starring Fred Williamson and Jim Brown, two of the genre’s biggest stars. It’s a ridiculous and highly entertaining film about some crazy white supremacist, oddly named “Feather”, who with his army of, oh, I don’t know, 15 people, hatch a nefarious plan to poison the water supply of three major cities with a poison that only kills black people. Yep. You read right. And of course, our heroes save the day with the usual barrage of guns, fistfights, kung-fu and all matter of jive-ass coolness that you don’t see anymore. I wrote a review of it a few years ago, which you can read here. Oddly enough, I can’t find a trailer for this anywhere.
More to follow… I hope those of you in the vicinity will show up and have a good time with us, we’re hoping to make this a regular event. There’s something guaranteed to offend everyone, one way or the other, so it will be a rather interesting evening, to say the least.
