In this episode we bid adieu to #SEXtember with 1985’s Breaking All the Rules directed by James Orr. We are joined by special guest Erin Dawn from the Manic Movie Monday podcast, and together we make our way through the Fun Park on the last day of summer, in search of love, sex, a dance…
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Writer/performer Ali Davis returns to the podcast as we continue #SEXtember with 1975’s COVER GIRL MODELS! This Cirio Santiago-directed film follows the exploits of three models and the sleazy photographer they are friends with for no good reason as they travel to Hong Kong for musical montages of photoshoots, a runway show, a dance contest,…
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Jessica Young (co-host of the Rants ‘n Raves podcast) returns to the podcast as we continue our tawdry journey through #SEXtember with 1987’s Nice Girls Don’t Explode – a movie that is everything and nothing you’d expect with the title, “Nice Girls Don’t Explode”. For a movie that explores a young woman’s tendency to spontaneously…
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Happy Labor Day indeed! We kick off #SEXtember by talking about 1974’s CANDY STRIPE NURSES written and directed by Alan Holleb (SCHOOL SPIRIT). In typical NWPP fashion, we start covering New World’s NURSES series with the final one in the series, and dig deep into what it takes to be a private eye in Los…
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Our #AuGHOST month continues with our most terrifying selection yet (that is, if you find local theater terrifying): 1986’s SHADOW PLAY! The directorial debut of writer/director Susan Shadburne, this features plenty of star power in the form of Dee Wallace Stone and Cloris Leachman, as it explores a playwright who loses her fiance to suicide…
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We continue #AuGHOST with our most Nearly New World episode yet with 1985’s SCHOOL SPIRIT! Roger Corman produces this ghostly comedy, directed by Allan Holeb (CANDY STRIPE NURSES), about a college student whose attempts to hook up with fellow student is interrupted by a deathly car crash! We discuss why New World passed on this…
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Wait a minute, you may be asking yourself, ALIEN was nearly a New World Picture? Ridley Scott’s ALIEN? It’s true! So that gave us, Erica, Marc and Ryan, your intrepid hosts, and excuse to talk about one of the greatest sci-fi/horror films ever made! And, considering we’re celebrating #SciFiJuly, the timing couldn’t be better! Listen…
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By Ryan Gowland As we finish off our month of #JuneGloom selections, we saw a lot of responses from people that were unaware of New World’s association with Ingmar Bergman and CRIES AND WHISPERS (check out our episode here). It’s easy to see Roger Corman, the person most associated with New World Pictures even in…
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As they say, “all gloomy things must come to an end”. We wave goodbye to JUNE GLOOM with a movie that isn’t short on tears – Ingmar Bergman’s CRIES AND WHISPERS. This movie which deals with the fractured relationship between three sisters as one of the sisters is dying of cancer is long on…
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JUNE GLOOM marches on and takes a dramatic (yet satisfying) turn as we discuss SAINT JACK, the film that saw director Peter Bogdanovich’s return to Roger Corman filmmaking! And joining us for this episode is the hilarious and insightful Ben Slater, who literally wrote the book on SAINT JACK with Kinda Hot: The Making of…
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