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Foundational Cinema

Month: April 2014

I Married a Monster From Outer Space

1958 Who made it: Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. With Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott. Audience appeal: 10 and up Once upon a time: It’s normal for a newlywed to be a little uncertain, a little nervous, a little confused, yes?…

Five Quick Questions with Two Chick Pix

  “TWO CHICK PIX” Presents… Get used to seeing and hearing that because there will be many great films coming out from Two Chick Pix in the near future.   The company started up in 2012 by the lovely actresses Jessica…

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Cat Girl

Cat Girl from 1957 was the first horror film role for Barbara Shelley, the film being a loose remake of Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 classic Cat People. Here however, the action takes place in England as opposed to Manhattan. Directed by…

Ghost Ship

Creepy and exciting movie about some shipwrecked lead to remains of a deserted ghost ship that’s been missing for more than 40 years , since WWII, it is packed with good actors and slick direction . The film concerns about…

“The Infected” Press Release

PRESS RELEASE – “The Infected” Chainsaw to the Leg, LLC Starring Helenna Santos: Filipino American Actress Stars in Horror Film Written by: Barry Morgan Story by: Helenna Santos and Barry Morgan Los Angeles – Writer/Director Barry Morgan’s (Arcana) new short…

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In Darkness We Fall

Spain’s young actors have had a miserable time of it in recent years. Among other unpleasant fates, they’ve been turned into man-eating zombies (the [REC] series), trapped inside a shrinking room (Fermat’s Theorem), and been holed up overnight in a…

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

‘The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie’ started life as a satirical comic strip in ‘Private Eye’, written by Barry Humphries and based on an idea by Peter Cook. McKenzie ( ‘Bazza’ to his friends ) is a lanky, loud, hat-wearing Australian…

Five Quick Questions with Taylor Scott Olson and Livingston Oden

“After finding an old storage locker filled with his family’s history, James Erikson begins a journey to discover the truth behind a mysterious piece of land in the small town of Solitude.” Filming has recently wrapped up for Taylor Scott…

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Rock And Roll High School

The movie is just plain fun….maybe more fun for those of us who were kids and fans of “The Ramones” around the time the film was made. I’ve watched the film over and over, by myself and with friends, and…

Paul Bartel

American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Bartel is perhaps best known as the director and star of the quirky sleeper Eating Raoul (1982). Born in New York City, Bartel was a film aficionado since childhood and entered the industry at…

Grindhouse

The essence of “Grindhouse,” Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s exuberant, uneven tribute to the spirit of trash cinema, is distilled in a scene from “Death Proof,” Mr. Tarantino’s feature-length contribution to the project. Two vintage American muscle cars, already scuffed…

Hollywood Boulevard

It’s a satire. It’s an action picture. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s a T&A movie. It’s a murder mystery. It’s a horror film. It’s a female vigilante exploiter. In other words, it’s not an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink epic, it’s an everything-and-the- kitchen-sink…

The Eh-List

A WHEEZING PERVERT makes obscene phone calls to a sorority house. Michael Ironside stews in a bachelor pad, writing angry letters to a feminist talk show host. Five horny students at T & A High make a pact to see…

John Milius

John Frederick Milius (born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He co-wrote the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The…