Five Quick Questions with Christopher R. Mihm – The Giant Spider
Back in 2006 Christopher R. Mihm started making classic 50’s era B-movies homage films. The fan base for his films grew rapidly and after several films the fans came up with the term “Mihmiverse.” He is a lifelong Midwesterner and…
Creepozoids
Set in the future of 1998, six years after a nuclear apocalypse that left Earth a ‘blackened husk of a planet’, a group of army deserters seeks refuge in an abandoned former military base. But it’s not long before the…
Corman’s Hidden Cost
Launched in early May, YouTube’s paid subscription channels offer studios a low-cost way to monetize recycled content. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, one federal equal access law is tripping up content producers with a hidden cost. Signed into law…
Corman’s Drive-In
Now that YouTube’s just announced its first 30 partners for subscription-based programming, a Hollywood B-movie legend is opening up his own paid subscription YouTube channel that will feature 400-plus of his classic films including “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Death…
Rabid
David Cronenberg’s second major movie can be viewed as a kind of sequel to “Shivers,” which, in more ways than one, deals with similar themes and issues as that of the aforementioned movie. Whilst Cronenberg showed originality and a genuine…
Machete Kills Trailer
Stop what you’re doing and watch the trailer for Machete Kills right now. Sure, it’s in Spanish, but no one cares about the dialogue anyway. The cast alone makes this movie a must-see. The sequel to Danny Trejo’s cult B-movie…
The Best Bad Movie of the Summer: Fast and Furious 6
Is there another franchise that’s pulled off as impressive a reversal as The Fast and the Furious? Besides a healthy return on a modest budget, there was little exceptional about the 2001 original, and even less to a string of…
Jared Cohn and Atlantic Rim
When the floor of the Atlantic Ocean rips open, flooding the East Coast with giant monsters, Academy Award nominee Graham Greene recruits ex-“Baywatch” lifeguard David Chokachi to join Naughty by Nature’s Anthony “Treach” Criss and 100 Ghost Street: The Return…
Bomba The Jungle Boy
As portrayed by Johnny Sheffield in 12 low-budget backlot/Bronson Canyon jungle adventures produced for Monogram Pictures from 1949 to 1955, Bomba the Jungle Boy is the most unlikely inhabitant of Africa since the okapi or aardvark. A scrubbed, cleanshaven, essentially…
On Stage : Reefer Madness
San Jose Stage Company presents Reefer Madness: The Musical. This irreverent and smokin’ hot musical is a satirical toke on the 1936 anti- cannabis propaganda B-movie that has become a cult classic. Raucous and outlandish, Reefer Madness: The Musical is…
On Dvd : Django Unchained
There’s something profoundly infantile about Quentin Tarantino’s quest to right the wrongs of history. Last time round he was retroactively bitchslapping the Nazis for the Holocaust. Here he’s punishing Americans who accrued obscene wealth out of slavery. In both films…
Ravenous
Ravenous is a 1999 horror film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and…
Zombie Lake
Zombie Lake (or Zombies’ Lake), known in the original French as Le lac des morts vivants (English: “The Lake of the Living Dead”), is a 1981 zombie horror film directed by Jean Rollin (under the name J.A. Laser). The film…
Grindhouse Releasing
Grindhouse Releasing (also referred to as “Grindhouse”) is a Hollywood-based independent cult film distribution company co-founded by director/actor Sage Stallone and headed up by film editor Bob Murawski (who most often works with film director Sam Raimi). Grindhouse Releasing digitally…
Joseph Ruben , Director
Joseph Ruben has gained a reputation for his offbeat, psychological, and dark examinations of modern American family life. His 1987 film The Stepfather, which looks at an outwardly normal dad whose bland face masks the ruthless heart of a serial…
Crown International Pictures
Crown International Pictures is an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P. Jacobs Jacobs was a former branch head of RKO Pictures until 1947 when he formed his own company “Favorite Films”; a film releasing…
Jenny Agutter
The fame of the 1970 film of The Railway Children persists in the most surprising of quarters. Jenny Agutter was performing (with Daniel Radcliffe) in the West End in the Peter Shaffer play Equus a couple of years ago. “I…
L.Q. Jones
Tall, sandy haired, mustachioed actor from Texas born Justus McQueen, who adopted the name of the character he portrayed in his first film, Battle Cry (1955). Jones, with his craggy, gaunt looks, first appeared in minor character roles in plenty…
A Boy And His Dog
It’s the year 2024, and most of the Earth’s nations have been demolished by yet another world war (the latest being WWIV). In this postapocalyptic world, slow-witted survivor Vic (Don Johnson) forages through the ruins for food and women with…
Alexei Balabanov, Director
Iconic Russian film director Alexei Balabanov passed away on May 18, 2013. He is best known for his portrayal of Russia in the 1990s, particularly in his films Brother and Brother 2. Balabanov was born on Feb. 25, 1959 in…