After making a winning faux trailer for a contest to promote the release of Grindhouse (2007), Jason Eisener hit the jackpot with an opportunity to expand his short-form teaser of a fed up, shotgun-wiedling hobo cleaning up a scummy town into a feature film. The resulting work is a surprisingly fun homage to sadistic, reactive action-dramas of the eighties, but with a healthy sense of self-deprecating humour packed into an over-the-top, wet-and-violent cartoon…
Based on his same-titled short film, then 21 year old writer / director J. Michael Muro hooked up with his teacher / Document of the Dead filmmaker Roy Frumkes to expand the short’s material into a feature-length film. Frumkes had managed to balance an unusual career as film instructor / filmmaker for several years, but Street Trash provided a plum opportunity to enter the horror / exploitation genre with a bang…
Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Screenplay, Woody Allen’s virtually perfect film is more than a partial homage to the absurd and ridiculous screwball misadventures of the forties and fifties, as filtered and adapted to Allen’s own sensibilities…
Sheldon Leonard began as a character actor (he’s perhaps best known as the bartender in It’s a Wonderful Life) in film before switching to radio where he took a crack at writing. His knack for humour…
A variety show that predated SCTV and especially Saturday Night Live’s blend of skits, parodies, music and monologues, the 140 90 mins. episodes featured the work of Sid Caesar often playing ordinary men often in receipt of assaultive embarrassments…
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