High-Kick Angels
The trailer for upcoming action film High-Kick Angels was released yesterday. The action-packed trailer features your not-so-typical Japanese schoolgirls beating the crap out of a bunch of bad guys. High-Kick Angels comes from writer and producer Fuyuhiko Nishi, who has…
The Vanishing Schwarznegger
We’re failing Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve currently got the Austrian oak putting in the best work of his entire career and audiences have abandoned him. Arnold’s three post-Governorship films, “The Last Stand,” “Escape Plan” and “Sabotage” — his role in The…
4D Movies Soon to Make Their U.S. Premiere
Regal Cinemas’ L.A. Live Stadium 14 multiplex is slated to feature the first “4D” movie theater in the United States. Regal inked a deal last month with the Seoul, Korea-based CJ 4DPlex to install the company’s first Stateside 4DX system…
Z Nation
Syfy has ordered a 13-episode zombie series from The Asylum, the company behind the cable channel’s hit 2013 B movie Sharknado. Titled Z Nation, the post-apocalyptic horror series is set three years after a zombie virus ravaged the country, as…
12 Monkeys Gets A Series Order From Syfy
While Syfy can’t be completely forgiven for diving into a black hole of B-movie creature features, the network is thankfully reverting back to the genre that spawned its original name. They’re headed into the future (and also the past, and…
The Last Days On Mars
I had high hopes for The Last Days On Mars. All of the signs were good. In the United States it’s distributed by Magnet Releasing, owned by that creepy overdog Mark Cuban but still importing a nice line of eccentric…
Son of Django
In spaghetti westerns names can be as deceptive as the lip movements of the actors. The name Django in the title usually means there’s no Django in the movie. Is this different for the son of Django? The first thirty…
Pit Stop
Pit Stop, a 1969 collaboration between B-movie king Roger Corman and director Jack Hill (renown primarily for his work across a number of Blaxploitation titles), represents something of a dream pairing for trash cinema aficionados. With its intriguing Faustian-like plot,…
‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ movie
“Years ago when I was making movies with a small group of friends, not a lot of people saw them. I always felt, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if more people could see these,’” he said. In May 2004, he got…
Hammer Gets Its Scare Back
It has been dismissed over the years as cheesy, cheap and laughable but, as has been the case on many occasions, Hammer Films have had the last laugh. They boast a back-catalogue that is to horror movies what The Rolling…
An Evening In The Room
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to nab one of the few tickets for the screening of everyone’s favourite B-movie, The Room. This wasn’t a normal showing that you might find at some underground theatre. The jack-of-all-trades writer, director, producer…
Riz Ortolani
Riz Ortolani, an Italian composer of dozens of film scores, whose Grammy-winning instrumental melody featured in the 1962 film “Mondo Cane” evolved into “More,” the celebrated anthem of love covered by sensuous crooners around the globe, died on Jan. 23…
Killer Lampreys
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Looking to get in on the campy “Sharknado” phenomenon, Animal Planet has set its own horror film from The Asylum — the same people behind “Sharknado” —…
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets, many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following….
Hannie Caulder
I saw this again after more than 30 years, and was prepared for a campy, laughable Western-parody, as so many from the Spaghetti Western Era are…especially anything at all starring camp queen Raquel Welch. I was rather pleasantly surprised. Yes,…
Black Christmas (1974)
Long before Jamie Blanks turned popular urban legends into a theme for his routine slasher franchise, director Bob Clark took one of the most vigorously touted of those fables and created a genre staple that would become the forerunner of…
Mickey Rooney Dead At 93
Mickey Rooney, who spent nearly his entire life in the show business, died today. He was 93. Rooney had been in ill health for quite some time. He was one of the most famous child actors in entertainment history. He…
Happy Birthday Roger
Listen up everyone! It is Roger Corman‘s 88th birthday today. And you should care, because he is an amazing guy. He made all those great early-1960s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price that Richard Matheson wrote. And he did…
5 underrated Cannon films from the 1980s
Menahem Golan and Yoran Globus, remember those names? Back in the 1980s, during the heyday of video tapes and action stars like Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Dudikoff and Sho Kosugi, you simply could not escape avoid the Golan-Globus…
Going ‘Commando’ With Mark Lester
By 1985, Arnold Schwarzeneggar was a household name, but not yet a mega-celebrity. Director Mark L. Lester explained, “He’d done The Terminator, he’d done Conan, but he wasn’t really an action star.” It was their madcap action flick Commando that…