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One of the most emotional segments of the annual SAG Awards ceremony is the “In Memoriam.” Netflix will live stream the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday with host Kristen Bell.

Among the Oscar winners and nominees who will have their lives celebrated are Teri Garr, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Earl Jones, David Lynch, Joan Plowright, Gena Rowlands, Maggie Smith, and honorary recipient Donald Sutherland. Some of the past Primetime Emmy winners and nominees include John Amos, Dabney Coleman, Shelley Duvall, Linda Lavin, Martin Mull, Bob Newhart, and Alan Rachins,

Seesag Life Achievement award: Full gallery of recipients since 1995

There are more than 100 actors and actresses who died since the last SAG Awards ceremony:

Marla Adams

Anouk Aimée

Jean Allison

John Amos

Erich Anderson

John Aprea

Niels Arestrup

Erica Ash

John Ashton

Susan Backlinie

Barbara Baldavin

Bobby Banas

Terrence Beasor

Joan Benedict

Meg Bennett

Robyn Bernard

Mark Blankfield

Tom Bower...

Brandis Kemp, aka Sally Blankfield, died at her home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles on July 4 after a struggle with brain cancer and complications from Covid-19, a friend confirmed. She was 76 and spent five decades as a working actress and comedienne.

She is best known for her TV work in ABC’s late night variety show Fridays, where she appeared along with Larry David, Michael Richards, Rich Hall, Bruce Mahler, Melanie Chartoff and Kemp’s then-husband Mark Blankfield. She next starred as Alma Cox in AfterMASH with Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, William Christopher and Rosalind Chao. As a member of the comedy group, Low Moan Spectacular, Brandis performed in El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond for HBO.

Brandis’s passion was Native American culture, gardening, and DIY. In November 2019, at age 75, after learning that her home needed to be re-stuccoed, Brandis taught herself to stucco,...

There’s an in between zone that parents often look for if they’re easing their kids into horror. If they’re fans of the genre themselves, the urge to take the tykes from Scooby-Doo to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is very tempting. I was one of the fortunate ones who was allowed to cut out the middleman and dive right into the heady stuff. So it was then that I missed out on a great bridge between the two extremes, The Midnight Hour (1985), ABC’s successful bid to get the Thriller-crazy crowd on their side.

Originally airing November 1st as part of The ABC Friday Night Movie (really? There was no Thursday slot open to make it for Halloween?), The Midnight Hour fought off CBS’ Dallas for its first half and NBC’s Miami Vice for the back, but those shows weren’t the ideal demographic anyway – this...

Nick Aldwinckle Sep 14, 2017

Our round up of horror and genre DVDs and Blu-rays returns, with some solid titles, and The Jerk sequel...

So, whilst Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump are comparing the size of their nuclear weapons and super-storms are battering the world’s coastlines, the head of Nato is describing the present moment as the “most dangerous in a generation”. With any luck, the inevitable apocalypse may bring with it some fun real-life zombie larks to bring some light to the fast-approaching nuclear winter: what more prescient documentary-drama could there be, therefore, than Re-Animator cult hero Brian Yuzna’s Return Of The Living Dead 3?

Resurrected this month on Blu-ray as part of the gloriously tacky Vestron Video Collection, the second sequel to Dan O'Bannon’s classic eighties comedy horror adopts more of an angsty nineties tone as the monster-making Trioxin chemical returns to cause havoc all over again,...

There's straight-to-video shame, then there's straight to TV shame. The following small screen follow-ups, then, are the most shameful of the lot.

Please note, however: all of the following first aired on the small screen. They may have ended up on DVD later, but they're telly specials through and through...

1. Home Alone 5: The Holiday Heist (2012)

Original film: Home Alone (1990)

Returning cast members: None

Stars: Christian Martyn, Jodelle Ferland, Malcolm McDowell

You'll remember the first two, and might have a dim recollection of the third - new kid, new goons - and the fourth will, hopefully, mean nothing to you (old kid, new actor playing kid, old goons, new actors playing goons, shot in South Africa).

The fifth, however, is the biggest stinker of the lot, a schmaltzy Christmas edition with a new kid, new family and new goons. Also, Malcolm McDowell - of Clockwork Orange fame - is in it,...

Streaming video is a godsend if you want to catch up with recent seasons of TV series. But what's a TV fan to do who wants to stream older shows? Netflix has very little from before the millennium, and Amazon Prime has very little from before 1990.

That's not a knock; the big streaming services know their market. Still, it's worth remembering that Amazon's initial appeal as a bookseller was it's long-tail catalog, the notion that comprehensiveness was worthwhile because somebody somewhere would want that obscure or ancient title, that the markets for all those titles were collectively significant and worth catering to, and that the Internet had at last made it easier to connect those customers with what they wanted.

But until the big streaming services step into the long-tail breach, Shout Factory TV (at shoutfactorytv.com) is ready to make a home there. The boutique streaming service, which is free and requires no subscription,...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Sometimes imitation can lead to sincere embarrassment. I’ll let you decide if sitting through this song & dance number clearly inspired by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video from the 1985 TV horror musical The Midnight Hour will make you want to get dead.

It must be said that The Midnight Hour boasted quite an eclectic cast of B and C list actors, some whose careers had long since peaked and others who would go on to become better known than they were at the time they appeared in this.

LeVar Burton

Peter Deluise

Dedee Pfeiffer

Dick Van Patten

Kevin McCarthy

Kurtwood Smith

Cindy Morgan

Mark Blankfield

Wolfman Jack

Macauley Culkin

The bell of this monster’s ball was Shari Belafonte. “Get Dead” was her big musical number, and it delivered everything you could expect from a cheesy TV movie stab at recreating the aesthetics...

In this new feature on the site, I'll be periodically posting various oddballs trailers from the far reaches of cinema obscurity. So, without any further ado, let's check out some "coming attractions"!

Stunt Rock (1978):

This mind-melting slab of Australian lunacy pairs footage of wild stuntman Grant Page with performances by goofy 70's rockers/magicians Sorcery! Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith of Turkey Shoot, Dead End Drive-in and Leprechaun 4: In Space fame.

Frankenstein General Hospital (1988):

Oh boy, this looks ridiculous. A forgotten straight-to-video comedy featuring a respectable cast of recognizable character actors including lovable lug Irwin Keyes, Mark Blankfield, Leslie Jordan and even Ben Stein. There's a part of me that wants to check this out, while another part of me screams "What the fuck is wrong with you?!".

Night of the Dribbler (1990):

Jesus Christ, where did this come from?! An absurd high school slasher flick/goofball comedy...

Legend Films' Student Bodies: Boasting as the "Original Teen Horror Comedy," Student Bodies follows the crazed serial murderer "The Breather" as he picks off sex-starved students one-by-one with everything from paper clips, to a chalkboard eraser, to a household bookend! You'll never look at horror movies the same again once you take in this original spoof-hit that can easily be seen as an inspiration for all of today's "Scary Movies." Legend Films' Jekyll and Hyde Together Again:The laughter is as big as the scares as actor Mark Blankfield takes on the dual role of the famed Dr. Jekyll and his "inner-beast" Mr. Hyde in the comedy hit Jekyll and Hyde Together Again. Robert Louis Stevenson would be turning in his grave at this hilarious adaptation...

Well, this week doesn’t fare much better than last. However, you can pick up the first Tarantino/Rodriguez collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn as well as some other flicks that may tickle your fancy. Read beyond the break for all the media from the crypt.

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The Crow: City of Angels

Format: Blu-Ray

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This fast-moving, action-packed sequel to The Crow explodes on screen with hot stars...

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Original Release Date: 30 January 1981)

There never was a happier home for the re-sized creature feature than the fifties. So many of the classics of the genre (if it is a genre) were released in that decade: Them! (1954), Tarantula (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), and the Abbott-less Lou Costello comedy, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959). (For the fetishists out there: included in The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock is a scene where Costello's character showers his giantess with an elephant hose.) These movies occasionally carried an agenda -- more often than not, the agenda had to do with how we ought to be more careful with technology in the atomic age--though they weren't necessarily always “message” movies. Many of them existed just to exploit the spectacle, or to present us with the novelty of humans interacting with wrong-sized stuff.

Forget the scruffy Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner, prince of thieves. When it comes to Robin Hoods, my fave renegade archer is Robin of Loxley, the dashing blond jokester at the center of Mel Brooks' 1993 comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights. His weapon of choice: A well-timed one-liner, backed up by plenty of arrow-shooting and swashbuckling. His sidekick of choice: Dave Chappelle. And he doesn't like to wear pants! Yes, this Robin is my kind of hero.

In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Robin of Loxley (Cary Elwes) returns to England during the Crusades to find Prince John (Richard Lewis) usurping King Richard's throne. With the loyal Ahchoo (Chappelle) and his blind servant Blinkin (Mark Blankfield) at his side, Robin teams up with Little John and the Merry Men on a quest to defeat Prince John and the evil Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees) and unlock Maid Marian's (Amy Yasbeck) chastity belt.

We complain a lot these days about how Hollywood is remaking movies they shouldn't be touching, or turning old television shows into movies we never asked for, but we forget about the atrocities committed back in the 1980s, before there was an internet for us to use to attack these ridiculous decisions and voice our concern. Back in the '80s, people created the worst made-for-tv sequels out of some of our most beloved comedies, for no other reason (it seems) than to make you cringe upon seeing some other random actor playing the same character you fell in love with back when guys like Tom Hanks and Steve Martin first brought them to life.

This was like the equivalent of a straight-to-dvd (or VHS) sequel, though the fact that it aired on television made it a lot easier for folks to be aware of its existence. In the case of The Jerk,...

PaleyFest first saluted the acerbic, irreverent and knee-bloodyingly funny "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in 2002. It's likely that back then, few in the room -- including its cast and creator -- figured the show would still be a factor in 2010. But 71 episodes later, it appears there will indeed be further adventures of Larry David and his cast of the put-upon.

The question of "Curb's" future was on most people's minds Sunday during the final night of the 27th annual TV festival. The answer was definitely probably.

Moderator Martin Miller of the Los Angeles Times began the session with an inquiry about more "Curb." But rather than quiz the group about a potential eighth season, he curiously asked whether there would be a big-screen version of the show, a la one-time fellow HBO comedy "Sex and the City." David's look was -- isn't it always? -- somewhere between puzzlement and incredulity.

"No plans for a movie,...