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Re-Making The Thing (Again)
One morning last week, while enjoying my coffee, I stumbled across that headline in Daily Variety. I nearly did one of those Danny Thomas spit-takes. For those not fluent in the rat-a-tat La-La-Land verse of Variety-speak, that announcement means that Universal Pictures is planning to remake John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece The Thing. This is a colossal boner on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. I'll never understand why Hollywood feels the need to remake perfectly good Read more [...]
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Meet Cleo Moore
"Beautiful, voluptuous Cleo Moore was one of Hollywood's most publicized starlets during the 1950's. Several publicity stunts landed the B movie queen on the from pages of newspapers across the country, notably her announcement that she would run for Governor of Louisiana and her notorious long, long kiss of live television which ended up a record breaker for time length. Amidst all of the buxom, breathtaking blondes of the era, Cleo still stood out. Cleo is often dismissed Read more [...]
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Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi, born Bela Blasko on 20 October, 1882, in Lugos, Hungary, trained for the stage at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts. From 1901 he played lead parts on the Hungarian stage and from 1915 in films, sometimes using the name Arisztid Olt. In 1918, at the time of the collapsing Hungarian monarchy and the establishment of a Communist regime, he was active in politics and organised an actors' union. When the Leftists were defeated, in 1919, he fled to Germany, where he appeared in Read more [...]
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SuperTrash
SuperTrash," a collection of B-movie posters on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, It's a collection of pulp art film posters, with some being campy and funny, while many others are risqué and, well, trashy. Co-curator Jacques Boyreau, author of "Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters," said that trash and art can't be separated and depend on one another. That's why these posters deserve to be seen in a gallery, he said. Aficionados in esoteric films can Read more [...]
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MOCKBUSTER Q&A – DAVID LATT
If you’re a fan of sci-fi movies like Mega Piranha, Transmorphers, Almighty Thor or Snakes on a Train, there’s every chance you’ve come across a movie from the creative minds at The Asylum. The Asylum was founded by former Village Roadshow executives David Rimawi, Sherri Strain, and director David Michael Latt in 1997, and has since established itself as the premiere studio for pumping out “mockbusters”. With Universal Channel’s Mockbuster Mayhem well underway, we spoke with Read more [...]
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Re-Making The Thing (Again)
Posted on 26 January 2012
One morning last week, while enjoying my coffee, I stumbled across that headline in Daily Variety. I nearly did one of those Danny Thomas spit-takes.
For those not fluent in the rat-a-tat La-La-Land verse of Variety-speak, that announcement means that Universal Pictures is planning to remake John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece The Thing. This is a colossal boner on so many levels I don't even know where to begin.
I'll never understand why Hollywood feels the need to remake perfectly good Read more [...]
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Meet Cleo Moore
Posted on 26 January 2012
"Beautiful, voluptuous Cleo Moore was one of Hollywood's most publicized starlets during the 1950's. Several publicity stunts landed the B movie queen on the from pages of newspapers across the country, notably her announcement that she would run for Governor of Louisiana and her notorious long, long kiss of live television which ended up a record breaker for time length. Amidst all of the buxom, breathtaking blondes of the era, Cleo still stood out.
Cleo is often dismissed Read more [...]
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Bela Lugosi
Posted on 26 January 2012
Bela Lugosi, born Bela Blasko on 20 October, 1882, in Lugos, Hungary, trained for the stage at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts. From 1901 he played lead parts on the Hungarian stage and from 1915 in films, sometimes using the name Arisztid Olt. In 1918, at the time of the collapsing Hungarian monarchy and the establishment of a Communist regime, he was active in politics and organised an actors' union. When the Leftists were defeated, in 1919, he fled to Germany, where he appeared in Read more [...]
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SuperTrash
Posted on 26 January 2012
SuperTrash," a collection of B-movie posters on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, It's a collection of pulp art film posters, with some being campy and funny, while many others are risqué and, well, trashy.
Co-curator Jacques Boyreau, author of "Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters," said that trash and art can't be separated and depend on one another. That's why these posters deserve to be seen in a gallery, he said.
Aficionados in esoteric films can Read more [...]
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MOCKBUSTER Q&A – DAVID LATT
Posted on 26 January 2012
If you’re a fan of sci-fi movies like Mega Piranha, Transmorphers, Almighty Thor or Snakes on a Train, there’s every chance you’ve come across a movie from the creative minds at The Asylum.
The Asylum was founded by former Village Roadshow executives David Rimawi, Sherri Strain, and director David Michael Latt in 1997, and has since established itself as the premiere studio for pumping out “mockbusters”.
With Universal Channel’s Mockbuster Mayhem well underway, we spoke with Read more [...]
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The Blob
Posted on 26 January 2012
The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes the small community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. In the style of American International Pictures, Paramount Pictures released the film as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space. There is a sequel and a remake but "the blob" is the original created in 1958.
The film was Steve McQueen's debut leading role, and also starred Aneta Corsaut. The Read more [...]
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2012 The Year Of The Geek
Posted on 26 January 2012
There was a time when Hollywood was not solely in the business of making franchise films with a built-in geek fanbase. In the early ’90s, science-fiction films were mostly low-budget B-movies and Star Trek sequels. The success of Tim Burton’s Batman films didn’t immediately kick-start a superhero renaissance, unless you were a big fan of Steel and The Shadow, you weirdo. And there simply weren’t any epic fantasy films, although an imaginative young Tolkien fan could create a reasonable Read more [...]
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