Cameron Meier

1 month ago | meiermovies.com | Cameron Meier

I used to think the closing credits of Skidoo (1968), which are sung by Harry Nilsson, were the weirdest in cinema history. But then I reacquainted myself with Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), which features end credits over footage of a topless Bo Derek being groped by an orangutan. I’m trying to imagine director John Derek’s thought process: “Hmm, I could have regular end credits, or I could have this orangutan fondle my naked wife.

1 month ago | meiermovies.com | Cameron Meier

If you’re a fan of short films — or of film history in general — you will enjoy my newest list. It’s a ranking of all the short films I’ve ever seen (about 3,500) by year. My previous lists of short films listed the movies alphabetically and by star rating, but not by year. So this new list is an important resource. Particularly fascinating are the oldest films on the list, the ones dating to the invention of cinema, in 1888. Go here to see the list.

1 month ago | meiermovies.com | Cameron Meier

Threads  Hybrid, 1984, 3 ¼ starsThreads is the British answer to The Day AfterExclusive to MeierMovies, May 13, 2025Ever see your hometown destroyed in a nuclear war? I did. The year was 1983, and the movie was ABC’s The Day After, set and filmed in and around Lawrence, Kansas, my home. Though the film was traumatic for Kansans, you didn’t have to live in the Sunflower State to be emotionally moved by nuclear holocaust. Television viewers all around the United States felt the gut punch.

1 month ago | meiermovies.com | Cameron Meier

La Gloria, 2025, 3 ¾ starsTopical drama eschews politics for truthExclusive to MeierMovies, May 5, 2025Ever been to the United States-Mexico border? I have. I went there in 2013, traveling from San Antonio to Eagle Pass, Texas. After parking my car on the American side, I crossed the international bridge on foot, with trepidation. I was greeted on Mexican soil by a single sentinel, holding aloft an assault rifle. He didn’t ask for I.D. He didn’t make eye contact. He stayed silent. I continued.

1 month ago | meiermovies.com | Cameron Meier

Proclamation casts further doubt on his mental healthExclusive to MeierMovies, May 4, 2025President Donald Trump announced today that films made outside the United States constitute a national-security threat. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,“ Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.