Thoughts on National Canada Film Day + Canada Screens
Some thoughts on Reel Canada’s National Canadian Film Day, and how to improve fledgling CanCon online channel Canada Screens.
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DVD: Supermensch – The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)
Mike Myers was likely compelled to direct this film (with Beth Aala) because Shep Gordon is more than an artist manager: he’s the man who invented some of the attention-getting tactics which aided clients like Alice Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Arnold, Emeril Lagasse, Mick Fleetwood, Teddy Pendergrass, and Anne Murray boost their careers…
Going to Pieces over A Bloody Birthday
Blu-ray review of Ed Hunt’s Bloody Birthday (Severin) + from the archives Adam Rockoff’s doc Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006), and more review updates.
BR: Bloody Birthday (1981)
American film school grad Ed Hunt found a career making B-movies when he ventured north of the 49th parallel and found private and government funds to produce an assortment of genre films, and while Hunt may be best remembered for one of the worst CanCon tax shelter films of the era, he nevertheless managed to show he could assemble material into a fluid narrative…
DVD: Our Man Flint – Dead on Target (1976)
It may be that Fox had wanted to follow up their popular Flint film series – Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) – with a scaled down, less costly TV series, but this Vancouver-made pilot ranks as one of the worst CanCon productions around. It’s no surprise any hope of a series were thwarted by this stillborn concoction which showed little imagination or directorial skill…
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