EDDIE MULLER, author, bon vivant, cultural archeologist and founder of both the Noir City Festival and the Film Noir Foundation, is indeed the Czar of Noir. You couldn’t find a nicer guy for such a dirty job, either. His many books on the topic include such definitive tomes as Dark City: the Lost World of [...]

They say that a person’s eyes are the windows to their soul; when you see Michelle Tomlinson on the screen you might just believe that is true. In THE CELLAR DOOR, her piercing dark eyes show the fire in her soul as she yearns to escape from her captor. When you finally tear yourself away [...]

ANDREA BEESLEY-BROWN, better known around her Arizona haunts as MIDNITE MOVIE MAMACITA, is the B Movie Nation’s official Southwest Representative. We were email pals for years before she invited me to her show (at the now sadly defunct Chandler Cinemas) in April of 2008. In person she is extremely gracious and sweet - you’d never [...]

Chicago based artist MITCH O’CONNELL has been wowing the world with his pop culture portraits for many years.  Monsters, zombies, pinups, flying saucers, robots, tikis, comic book heros and especially B Movies all inform his eye-popping  portfolio. Check out his MySpace page for more incredibly imaginative images. Recently I interviewed one of my favorite artists [...]

ARCH HALL JR. is that rare combination - a living legend and a nice guy. This cool cat is still swingin’ forty odd (yes, very odd) years since his debut in The Choppers (1961) written by his legendary father, Arch Hall Sr., and cementing his own legacy as a drive-in deity with the timeless gems [...]

CYXORK 7 , the hilarious and inventive movie about making a movie in a fading sci-fi franchise, coming May 15 from Monogram Releasing, is one of the Best Movies of 2008 you’ve never heard of, according to Popmatters and according to me, too. Prolific and amiable writer/director JOHN HUFF gave us the lowdown on this [...]

Is B-Movie a terminology more relative to the movies of the fifties and sixties and the decades that went before rather than today’s current cinema audience?
 
A time when cinemas presented two movies at most showings, a main feature and a low budget secondary film, affectionately referred to as the B-Movie.
 
But as with most things in [...]