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Foundational Cinema

Month: April 2012

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Army Of Darkness

All right you primitive screwheads, listen up. Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness, the third and final film in the Evil Dead trilogy, screened at The Belcourt over the weekend and it was perhaps the finest example of everything going exactly…

Seeing Is Believing

hough this year’s Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival (金馬奇幻影展) is only in its third edition, the fledging film showcase is already very popular. Getting tickets to all the movies you want before they sell out requires standing in line next…

Bad B

Cheap, slapped-together run-of-the-mill B-movie thrillers are a dime a dozen. And their egregiousness is often not worthy of outrage or scorn because frequently the films are made on the cheap with a knowing eye towards making a buck with direct-to-DVD…

Feel The Wrath

Stop-motion monsters, robotic owls and beefy, blue-eyed heroes of yore. It’s cheesy as feta, but 1981’s “Clash of the Titans” is B-movie fun, rightfully holding a fond place in the hearts of fans who’ve watched it since childhood and beyond….

Sun Sets On Some Hollywood Stages

It’s curtains for some historic Hollywood soundstages. L.A. has been abuzz with the news that a West Hollywood movie lot dating back to 1919 is about to undergo extensive renovations. Slated for immediate demolition at the former Warner Hollywood Studio…

Super-8 Skeletons

Home movies were a fixture when she was growing up. Her father had a 16mm movie camera (with sound!), and many was the night when he would set up the projector in the basement and unspool family vacations, graduations, holidays…

Glue Man

The Wisconsin Film Festival promises many nuanced, complex characters, but the subject of Glue Man is insidiously flat, generic, a blank slate. In the short film by Wisconsin natives Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, creators of Found Footage Festival, and…

The Heroine Revisted

KATNISS EVERDEEN, the 16-year-old “Hunger Games” warrior who has torn through the box office, is one of the most radical female characters to appear in American movies. The film’s stunning success can partly be explained by the print sales of…

Sword and Sandal Movies

I come to praise Sword & Sandal movies — not to bury them. But with Wrath of the Titans and the Sword & Sandal/sci-fi mash-up John Carter not exactly setting the world on fire — along with recent disappointments like…

John Landis

John Landis started as a mailroom clerk at 20th Century Fox, and worked in Europe for several years as a stunt man — you can see him shot or maimed in such late-1960s fare as Charge of the Light Brigade,…

Men In Black And B Style Movie Monsters

Men in Black III will feature “retro” aliens from the past, according to the film’s lead make-up artist. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are returning for the third film of the sci-fi franchise, which will see Agent J (Smith)…

Hunger Games’ Hits $251 Mil

Greek deities and Snow White were no match for The Hunger Games at the domestic box office. Hunger Games towered over new entries Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror in its second weekend, grossing $61.1 million and pushing its…

Mythic tale of survival roars into film festival

American Benh Zeitlin’s feature will show alongside a host of foreign and local films, including Berlin FIPRESCI winner Tabu, directed by Miguel Gomes, and Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Neighbouring Sounds, which took out the main prize at the International…

From Crave Online: Seven Movie Plot Holes That Drive Us Nuts

Now is time to put on your nit-picking socks, movie fans, as this week’s installment of B-Movies Extended (which is, in case this is your first go-‘round with us, a special addendum to CraveOnline’s very own The B-Movies Podcast, which…

Totally TOTAL RECALL

Sony Pictures has released the trailer for “Total Recall,” the remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic sci-fi film. It just might make you forget about that version though. This one stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho…

Hunger Beats Titans

It’s fair to say that no one was expecting particularly great things for Wrath Of The Titans, particularly in light of its dismal predecessor. But remarkably, Wrath managed to improve on just about every aspect of Clash Of The Titans,…

B Movie Orchestra

Nine men in a dark suit with a black tie noose in a single node and a woman (the other was sick) with a short dress and no panties. B-movie orchestra: a trip along, let’s say, 40 years b-films. If…

Danger 5

HITLER’S plan has been foiled again. His mutant lizard soldiers lie dead all around him. The Danger 5 team have him in their sights, but as they raise their guns, the villain escapes by throwing himself through a window. A…

Exploding B’s

Michael BiehnS aturday at the International Horror and Science Fiction Film Festival was cult horror movie showcase time with a slew of well known genre actors and directors adding to the fun. Low budget independent B-movies were the focus in…