Making A Boba Fett Movie
When I see discussions and speculations on what the “spin off” Star Wars movies will be about, every time I see a “Boba Fett movie would be awesome” “They have to do a Boba fett movie” I do nothing but…
Kill Bill 3 ?
“If there was something I would like to work on again, it would be Honshu’s movies, maybe. Or a horror movie, perhaps,” Quentin Tarantino told The Independent. The director who has been known for working on the serial killer film…
Sexcula
Canada may have a long history of making sexy films, if not actual sex films. From early 1960s nudie cuties like Have Figure Will Travel and Montreal’s decidedly non-explicit “maple syrup porn” films through to the Porky’s-sparked sex comedy boom…
Hollywood is the enemy, not sharks
As a child, I developed an intense fear of great white sharks. Here were these giant fish that skulked the ocean and preyed upon humans and even though I had never seen a shark in the flesh, nor had I…
Hateful 8 Still On?
Tarantino is no stranger when it comes to his movies causing controversy, but usually only once the film has actually been released. His next upcoming project, The Hateful Eight has already caused a stir, despite a single frame of the…
The Rise Of Bleeding Skull Video
Retro entertainment and technology is making a comeback, and a group of Austin-based entrepreneurs are right in the mix with a fresh VHS horror film distribution company, according to reports. Austin 360 reports that former Alamo Drafthouse programmer Zack Carlson…
Remaking The Magnificent 7
The trailer for The Equalizer – the reboot of the 1980s TV show reuniting director Antoine Fuqua with his Oscar-winning Training Day lead, Denzel Washington – debuted this week; judging by the preview footage, Fuqua and Washington could have another…
The Gremlins Trend
There’s no better sign of success for a horror movie than it inspiring multiple shameless rip-offs. By that measure, the creature feature Gremlins, which came out 30 years ago next month, ranks among the greatest scary movies of all time….
Valley Of The Gwangi
As an adult, you visit the corporate cinema complex, eat hot dogs which taste like underpants, lose yourself for just under three hours, then step back out into a world of social hypocrisy and mortgages, car repairs and medical bills,…
Replikator
A great science fiction movie causes our brains to whirl around with a frenzied cacophony of questions—What does it mean to be human? How will we deal with the stark inevitabilities of our species’ continuing existence? Why would that smart,…
The Shape of Things to Come
Geoff Pevere once observed that science fiction, insofar as it was concerned cinematically, is not traditionally in Canada’s dramatic domain. “Chiefly a nation of naturalists and documentarists,” Pevere wrote, “Canadians are more likely to put their arts in the service…
Near Dark (1987)
In filming “Near Dark”, Kathryn Bigelow creates a masterpiece of counter-cinematic art. Counter-cinema in its simplest definition is cinema that through its own cinematic practices, questions and subverts existing cinematic codes and conventions. Counter-cinema usually lies in independent film-making, but…
The Grand Duel (1972)
Prolific Spaghetti western scenarist Ernesto Gastaldi penned the script for this Lee Van Cleef continental western “Grand Duel,” directed with competence by Giancarlo Santi. Although he doesn’t appear to have helmed any Spaghetti westerns aside from “Grand Duel,” Santi served…
Screwballs
In Canada, the early 1980s saw a run of juvenile comedies, influenced indirectly by the more political “maple porn films” made in Quebec. The maple porn movies filled a niche, delivering naughty comedy films that Quebec audiences had not been…
Wolfman
It is remarkable that Earl Owensby has made as many b- grade low budget action films as he has. More amazing is the fact that this likable but paunchy and balding 30-something-ish producer stars in many of them. It is…
Without Warning
This very weird drive-in flick directed by Greydon Clark is pretty creepy, in a brainless sort of way. Predating the “Predator” concept by a number of years, “Without Warning” involves a mysterious alien presence lurking in the woods, claiming campers…
John Chambers
John Chambers was a legendary make-up artist who became a veteran in both television and film. One of the most imaginative and resourceful of makeup artists, Chambers was born in Chicago, Illinois of Irish background, and was a commercial art…
Wynorski On Dvd
‘The Lost Empire,’ Directed by Jim Wynorski (Polyscope Media/MVDvisual, HHH) These two April 22 DVDs feature B-movies with commentary tracks, trailers and more. “The Lost Empire” is B-movie legend Jim Wynorski’s first film. This blurb says it best: “In a…
On the Cheap: My Life in Low Budget Filmmaking-Greydon Clark
During four decades Greydon Clark has worked in front of and behind the camera to bring some of the most memorable exploitation movies to life. “On the Cheap” is an in-depth, first person account of a lifetime spent in this…
X-Men is a mutant mash-up
Days of Future Past Direction: Bryan Singer Actors: Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence They have seen a lot of action since their cinematic debut in 2000. Reassembling for the seventh installment of the titular franchise, the familiar band of mutants strives…