• Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand: Robert Dean Lurie’s “Begin the Begin” covers R.E.M.’s early formative years in Athens, Georgia
• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
• Attention “cord cutters” and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
• Teens high on “the weed rooted in hell” go wild in the midnight movie classic “Reefer Madness”
• “J-Men Forever”: Rock ‘n’ Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman’s Night Flight cult classic
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!

All posts by Bryan Thomas

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  Darth Trump: Make The Galaxy Great Again!

  We just had to share with you this mashup — between the bloviating Donald Trump and Darth Vader — which replaces the Dark Lord of the galaxy’s dialogue from the original 1977 Star Wars movie with actual...

  • Posted December 9, 2015
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  Hankerin’ for a hunk o’ Timer: The little yellow blob was part of a well-balanced 70s childhood

  Time for Timer were a series of educational PSA’s promoting healthy eating and personal hygiene that ran on Saturday mornings in the early 70s, during the ABC’s children’s cartoon programming, primarily during “Schoolhouse Rock!” and “The Bod...

  • Posted December 9, 2015
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  Archie Bunker & the Editorial: Talkin’ about Gun Control in 1972

  In this memorable “All in the Family” episode (“Archie and the Editorial,” the third season premiere, airing on September 16, 1972), Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) is upset by an anti-gun editorial he hears on the evening news...

  • Posted December 8, 2015
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  R.I.P. Holly Woodlawn, Superstar: She was fierce

  Have a look at this four-part BBC Arena “Tales of Rock ‘N’ Roll” series which tells the story behind Lou Reed’s song “Walk on the Wild Side,” peopled with characters who frequented Andy Warhol’s studio in the...

  • Posted December 7, 2015
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  “Loose Shoes”: “Here’s a movie that makes Mel Brooks’s humor seem sophisticated, Woody Allen’s statuesque”

  The 1980 film Loose Shoes — a relatively late entry in what we like to call omnibus films, comprised of satirical sketches, skits, parodies, musical performances, and fake film clips — is likely and perhaps luckily forgotten...

  • Posted December 6, 2015
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  “Pioneers: Brian Eno”: Every sound is music

  Pioneers: Brian Eno — directed by Phoebe Collins — was first shown on the BBC’s Channel 4 in 1999 on their series called “Music” (some sources say 2000). It featured interviews with David Byrne, David Toop, A...

  • Posted December 5, 2015
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  “Joe’s Apartment”: The original MTV short that first gave us sex, bugs and rock ‘n’ roll

  In 1992, this original short film — a live-action/stop-motion cult classic featuring singing cockroaches, directed by John Payson, MTV’s then-current director of on-air promotion and animated I.D.’s. — aired between breaks in MTV’s programming, and as part...

  • Posted December 3, 2015
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  Biting into “The Apple”: This 1980 glitter-soaked Euro-Trash crapfest may be the worst movie ever made

  Please have a look at the opening sequence and the performance of the song “Do The BIM” from the movie many consider among the worst ever made, The Apple, a hilariously dystopian sci-fi musical catastrophe of unbelievably...

  • Posted December 2, 2015
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