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Randal Kleiser Talks About Grease, Flight of The Navigator, and Drawing Directors | Podcast 29

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Randal Kleiser is the director of Grease, Flight of the Navigator, The Blue Lagoon, Grandview, U.S.A., and many other films. In this Cereal At Midnight interview, he talks about sharing a house with George Lucas, meeting Buster Keaton, and how he's secretly been drawing directors for 60 years! RandalKleiser.com Drawing Directors: https://amzn.to/3ObBbiP Grease: The Director's Notebook: https://amzn.to/476D5di Joey Cramer on Life After the Navigator https://youtu.be/ogQSgIo6XZE   Lisa Downs on Life After Flash and Life After The Navigator https://youtu.be/yQkyOW02qKo Find the Cereal at Midnight Podcast wherever you download your podcasts! If it's not there yet, we're working on it! It can already been found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, the Podbean app, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeart Radio, PlayerFM, Samsung, and Podchaser! Please subscribe, rate, and review! **************************************************************** Review Archive: CerealAtMidnight.com/p/revie...

Review: Life After the Navigator (2020)

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Life After The Navigator is a powerful and truly-inspiring documentary that manages to deftly weave two separate biographical narratives into one cohesive and compelling story. Simultaneously tasked with recounting the making of the cult classic film Flight of the Navigator AND depicting the rise, fall, and rebirth of former-child-star Joey Cramer, the film is brimming with real pathos, human drama, tragedy, and ultimately triumph.  This is a deeply-personal affair. Written, produced, and directed by filmmaker Lisa Downs , there's empathy in every frame. In the hands of another documentarian, the details of Cramer's career and private struggles could (and would) be easily exploited for quick drama and sensationalism. The thing that makes this film (and Downs' previous documentary, Life After Flash ) stand head-and-shoulders among other pop culture retrospectives is the care that is taken to humanize people, situations, and deeds. The camera casts no judgement, and the vul...

Joey Cramer on Flight of the Navigator and Life After the Navigator!

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Joey Cramer, the star of the classic 1980s science fiction/fantasy film FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, talks to Cereal At Midnight about working with icons, being a child actor in the 80's, and how his long voyage home is now the subject of a new documentary, LIFE AFTER THE NAVIGATOR! JoeyCramer.com LifeAfterMovies.com Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 80 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Music Geek Out: Top 5 Vinyl Picks feat. Filmmaker Lisa Downs! (UNCUT)

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Heath is joined by writer/producer/director Lisa Downs (Life After Flash, Life After The Navigator) for a look at our top 5 vinyl-era musical recommendations! This conversation is being presented complete and uncut! Let's Geek Out! LifeAfterMovies.com The Web Show @lifeafterflash @navigatormovie @lifeafteratreyu @lifeaftermovie3 @lisadowns on Twitter  lifeaftermovies on Instagram

EPIC New Release Haul!

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  In this EPIC New Release Haul, we talk the latest new arrivals and even a few pre-orders that arrived several weeks before they're officially available! Discussed in this video: :57 Ultraman Taro  Standard Edition Steelbook Edition 4:58  The Freshman Like Father Like Son Blind Fury 8:48 Love and Monsters 12:42 Imprint Film Noir Collection I -  Via Vision Deep Discount 19:06 Popeye 20:57 Life After the Navigator 24:35 Intersect 27:16  The Gambler Collection (Walmart Only) MacShayne Collection 30:26 Space Ghost and Dino Boy Josie and the Pussycats 34:52 Beastmaster 37:51 Makeflix Spotlight Dinosaur Island Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing  Evil Spawn  Monogram Double Feature - Ape Man / Doomed to Die 

Disney's Tomorrowland: Flawed Beauty (Disney Movie Review)

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2015's big budget would-be blockbuster Tomorrowland wasn't the movie that anyone was expecting, including Disney themselves. But does that mean that there's nothing to take away from the film? In this movie review, I talk about my affection for the Walt Disney Pictures movie Tomorrowland, its origin as a theme park land, and delve into some of the spin-off material. Things even get a little personal before it's all said and done.