The Cinefamily

July 18, 2011 2:56 PM

If you were a fan of shows like Night Flight, then The Cinefamily theatre blog is for you: Michael Jackson: Unauthorized! :: THOR: Bootleg Version :: Fassbinder soundtracks :: Sci-Fi Cover Art Hall of Fame :: The Last Unicorn :: Echoes From A Somber Empire :: Thrashin' ('80s skateboard) :: Mondo Wizard Battles :: Afterschool Specials :: Negativland :: Found Animation :: The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner + How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck :: Burt Reynolds Supercut :: Tex Avery vs. Jay Ward :: Dumb Names In Movies! :: North Korea-A-Rama (The Red Chapel) :: Mondo Logo 1 + 2 :: Chuck Norris
posted by puny human (6 comments total)

While it's not from the site in question, but linked by the site, Dumb Names in Movies is amusing, but should really do more research. Binky Griptite may have a less than noble-sounding name, but the dude is awesome (Discogs).
posted by filthy light thief at 3:43 PM on July 18, 2011

Man, do I miss NightFlight.. Back in the wild west days of early cable programming that sort of late night weirdness was the bestest thing in the world for oddballs like me. These days the closest thing to it on television is the oddities of cable access shows, but even those are dwindling to nearly nil with the incursion of internet video into the oddball entertainment arena.
posted by mediocre at 5:49 PM on July 18, 2011 [1 favorite]

As a fellow Night Flight misser, may I present the voice that launched a few million wet dreams, Pat Prescott.
posted by timsteil at 7:05 PM on July 18, 2011

My Magnetic Video Corporation copy of "The Making of Star Wars" was the only VHS tape I rescued during the great purge of 2008.
posted by ShutterBun at 9:21 PM on July 18, 2011

The weirdness of that cartoon Thor fan edit wasn't too far from the actual Thor cartoons that it was culled from. Man, those late 60's Marvel cartoons were STRANGE (largely due to a hasty & cheap production process, but still . . .)
posted by KingEdRa at 12:02 AM on July 19, 2011

I too miss Nightflight.
And for some reason the Carvel " new wave period" ad shown in this post (Our New Favorite Vintage Spots) took me back...well, at least to the memories of weird Carvel ads. Which I think was around the same time as I was watching Nightflight.
posted by batgrlHG at 2:30 AM on July 19, 2011