Do You Love B Movie Trailers?
If you enjoy watching B movie trailers then have I got some DVD and Blu-ray collections for you! One of the most well known collections is the 42nd Street Forever collection. There have been several volumes released on DVD over…
The Rondo’s Are Out
Today’s grisly takes on zombies and terror shared honors with some of Hollywood’s oldest monsters in the results of the 2013 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon’s homage to 80’s teen thrillers, was named…
Respecting The B:Big Ass Spider on The Film Festival Circuit
While it may seem a disappointing revelation to genre fans, director Mike Mendez admits the idea of making a movie about a rampaging giant spider did not initially strike him as a career booster. A few years back, a screenplay…
My Name Is Vladimir: Jack Palance
Jack Palance was an American actor born on February 18, 1919, in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. Named Vladimir Ivanovich Palahniuk,the former boxer gained fame playing villainous characters in Hollywood. He earned Oscar nods for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane…
B-movie actress loses case against IMDB over revealing her age
A 41-year-old B-movie actress has lost her legal battle with the Internet Movie Database, which she claimed cost her acting work after it published her true age against her will. IMDb.com lists the details of around 4m film and TV…
The B Movie Actress-Linnea Quigley
Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 27, 1958, to Dorothy and Heath Quigley. Her mother was a housewife and her father a chiropractor and psychiatrist. After moving with her family to Los Angeles in the late 1970s,…
Jonathan Winters Rest In Peace
he world of comedy has lost a legend. Jonathan Winters, who was known for his improv work that inspired many a contemporary stand-up comic including Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and others, has died. He was 87. Longtime family friend Joe…
The Wild Angels
At the beginning of the whole biker film craze, Director Roger Corman made one of the biggest hits with The Wild Angels. Actor Peter Fonda had previously been in more light hearted films like “Tammy and the Doctor” in which…
Popcornflix: a B Movie Netflix
Whether you know Popcornflix or not, the movie streaming service wants to get to know you; or, at least, it wants to capture your attention long enough that you’ll consider it alongside your other streaming media favorites. Launched in beta…
Beach Blanket Bingo
The fifth entry in the “Beach Party” series is universally acknowledged as the best of the lot. Having watched three such films in quick succession, I have to agree: it’s not that those concerned made a concentrated effort at creating…
The Expatriate
Ben Logan (Eckhart) and his daughter, Amy (Liberato) started a new life in Belgium after Ben’s job sent him overseas. He’s moved past the struggle of moving abroad and is at the top of his game with work. However, one…
The Call: A New Classic
For the first hour or so of The Call, you’ll think you’re watching a new B-movie classic. The picture is staged as a typical ‘special location’ thriller. We get a solid prologue, a decent chunk of the movie set during…
Acquanetta
Long before one-named celebrities became a fixture in American pop culture — before Oprah, before Madonna, even before Cher — there was Acquanetta. For decades the raven-haired beauty, who appeared in a series of B-movies in the 1940s, was the…
Annette Funicello Passes
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ’60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday….
Five Quick Questions with Peter Paul Basler and Miguel Muller – Supernova Films
Soon to be released by Supernova Films is the action, adventure, comedy, Sci-fi film “The Vortex”. Supernova Films was started up by Peter Basler and Miguel Muller a couple years ago and since then they have been very busy producing…
Dr.Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Now this is what I call a too-little-known gem. Despite being a perpetual “student” of film and being a fan of Vincent Price, 1960s films, and the various genres this film can be seen as, I somehow overlooked this title…
Welcome To The Grindhouse
Grindhouse is an American term for a theatre that mainly showed exploitation films. It is named after the defunct burlesque theatres, on 42nd Street, New York, where ‘bump n’ grind’ dancing and striptease used to be on the bill. In…
Evil Dead, It’s Just OK
Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult indie-horror classic “The Evil Dead,” and its smarter, cooler follow-up, “Evil Dead II” from 1987, are the Rosetta Stone for the hack-and-splatter crowd. If you want to know how to make a movie about a bunch…
Five Quick Questions with Jason Bourque
Jason has directed and wrote a couple dozen films including many disaster films. Growing up a horror fan he was determined to create his own horror and disaster film and he did just that. A few of his thrilling films…
Roger Ebert R.I.P
It was reviewing movies that made Roger Ebert as famous and wealthy as many of the stars who felt the sting or caress of his pen or were the recipients of his televised thumbs-up or thumbs-down judgments. But in his…