Ian Courtney

Ian Courtney

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  • Beware! The Blob

  • Bull Durham

  • The Black Gestapo

  • Roar

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  • Roar

    Roar

    “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. 

    70 cast & crew members were.”

    ...Reads the tag line for Roar.

    This film was made as a passion project by the family of Tippi Hedren that consisted of her husband Noel Marshall (whom had produced films like The Excorcist), her new-to-acting-yet-to-be-a-star daughter Melanie Griffith, and Hedren’s three step sons. They wanted to raise awareness about big cats that were being slaughtered and decided to use untrained lions, tigers, cheetahs, panthers,…

  • The Apple

    The Apple

    Def in the top 10 weirdest WTF movies I’ve ever seen. 

    But not a bad film. Highly watchable, in the way that I never knew what I was going to see next. 

    There were many questions I asked myself while watching this film. The most prominent of them was: Why does “the future” of 1994 seem like it’s 100 years past 1980 when this film was shot?

    Other questions that popped in my mind:
    (which never got answered through the…

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  • The First Time

    The First Time

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  • Host

    Host

    The first Covid-19 Movie?

    This is a historical film in that this is the first feature length film to be shot during covid-19 & released during covid-19—though at a 56 minute running time, its not exactly a typical length feature film. But if you’re going by film festival rulings, which if I’m recalling correctly, anything above 50 minutes qualifies as feature length. 
    Of course there was also the film Corona Zombies released by Full Moon, which I guess was “technically” the…

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