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Foundational Cinema

Month: June 2013

The Life and Times of Anna Nicole Smith

Lifetime—the network that has an inherent, unmatched understanding of modern camp—is releasing The Anna Nicole Story as its next original movie, directed by feminist filmmaker Mary Harron, and starring Agnus Bruckner as Anna Nicole Smith, Adam Goldberg as Howard K….

World War War Z

Zombies are on the rampage in World War Z, but the B-movie premise becomes an epic story of survival in the hands of director Marc Foster. If his Quantum of Solace was too esoteric, then it’s the opposite here, as…

Big Bad Pia

B-movie actress Pia Zadora was arrested this weekend on charges related to domestic violence. According to an Associated Press report, Zadora was arrested on Saturday morning for suspicion of domestic battery and coercion. Police had been called to her Las…

The Kiss Of The Vampire

Kiss Of The Vampire was the second and last Hammer vampire film made before Christopher Lee agreed to don the fangs once more. It’s a shame he didn’t come back for this one because one of the very few weak…

They Live

They Live is based on a pulp sci-fi story about aliens who live among us and manipulate us through subliminal advertising, other mind control techniques, and sometimes, guns and bulldozers. Like most Carpenter films, its artistic, fun, intelligent and does…

Cirio H. Santiago

Cirio H. Santiago was a prolific Filipino film producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He also uses the screen names: Cirio Santiago and Leonard Hermes.Santiago was born on January 18, 1936 in Manila, Philippines to Dr. Ciriaco Santiago, the founder of…

Fast 6 Not Action?

It may not be that obvious, but “Fast & Furious 6,” the latest in an unlikely franchise that began in 2001, is not really an action movie. Sure, it has car chases, car flips, car crashes and mixed martial arts…