"The Beekeeper" or "John Wick" If It Was Produced by Roger Corman

Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss

Episode 166: The Beekeeper (2024)

No laptop, no #rewindwednesday.

CatBusRuss is coming at you with a new movie review for another
movie that was released in the last year.

This week, he watched Jason Statham in “The Beekeeper”.

It is essentially a solo action hero flick for the Brit
which yells at you about what they did wrong with “Expend4bles”
and how capitalist are awful once they inevitably sell out.

Both messages we can all get behind thanks to British actors
heading to Boston for a paycheck.

Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss

Episode 169: Hail to the #Bmovie King: #RogerCorman with ThePoeticCritic

CatBusRuss thought about calling the episode “Celebrating Roger Corman-I-May”,
but then ThePoeticCritic corrected him by explaining he had left his studio, New World Pictures,
by the time they first translated “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”.

But if Roger Corman was not the producing legend who founded that distributor and AIP,
would we even have anime in the States?

Those cheap Streamline Pictures dubs had to find inspiration somewhere.

Our host and his big sister talk about the influence that Corman had on independent cinema
and how that led to the careers of at least two auteurs with Best Director Oscars
(Ron Howard and James Cameron). With his recent passing,
the two also discuss how cinema will now fair without the continuation of the opportunities
he was providing to young filmmakers.

Is “Resist the Disney machine” is all they can offer?