A.V. Club - Lots of actors die onscreen, but few perish the way famed character actor Dick Miller did in his film debut, 1955’s The Apache Woman. The neophyte actor-writer began the film playing a Native American, but he was surprised and more than a little amused to discover that he would be doing double duty as the cowboy who eventually kills that character in a big shootout. It was the perfect introduction to the Roger Corman method: Shoot it cheap, shoot it fast, and don’t worry too much about the specifics.
Brad of The Daily Rotation wrote, "Releasing today on DVD and Blu-ray is the biographical documentary Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, highlighting the life and career of independent film legend Roger Corman. The incredible producer and director has had his hand in more than 400 movies ranging from such films as The Wild Angels, Boxcar Bertha, and to more recent titles Dinoshark and Sharktopus. Additionally, the directors that worked with him read like a who’s who of Hollywood, from Martin Scorsese, to Francis Ford Coppola, and James Cameron."
Arolemodel.com’s quest to turn everything in the entertainment world into a positive influence in the real world continues with this article, which looks at this week’s offering of movies and asks one simple question: what’s the point? What real life benefits are we going to get out of watching the movies released this week? This article investigates.
MovieLine - Director, producer and distributor Roger Corman’s world seems suspended between magnetic poles: At true north he could be described as the godfather of independently produced and independent-minded film; way down south is the Corman who looks more like the godfather to Don Simpson, a crude flipper of hot cake flicks who originated the high concept, sensation-pummeling mainstream cinema we’re stuck with today. Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, director Alex Stapleton’s annotated filmography of the filmmaker’s wildly tentacular career, is less an attempt to reconcile those poles than to show how neatly and necessarily they are bound together, by both the financial nature of filmmaking and the stubborn question of taste.
