Son of Cronenberg
Imagine you are David Cronenberg, a filmmaker but also a parent. You tell your...
Monthly Archives: May 2013
CD Review: SHE DEMONS / THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER
When you want the best in shrieking, old-school genre music, then Monstrous Movie Music...
B Movie Theatre: Alice In Slasherland
When Daniel Martin took his new position last January as artistic director for Birmingham’s...
GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS
everal Japanese merchant ships in the Pacific Ocean are mysteriously destroyed by a strange...
The Amazing Atomic Movie Monsters
Being as I was a child of the 1990s and having not even been...
Wild About Harry
With the passing of Ray Harryhausen on Tuesday, the film community lost a legend....
The Hidden Face
Trailers revealing too much in general is nothing new, but some go one step...
Hell Comes To Frogtown
If this film’s title wasn’t enough of an indication for you – yes, Hell...
Bloodfeast
Well, it’s been said that ‘Blood Feast’ was the first gore movie of all...
The Giant Spider
When radiation left behind by atomic weapons testing creates a gigantic killer mutant arachnid,...
Big Joe Lewis, B Movie Director
Tomorrow night, the University of Chicago’s Doc Films will screen the Joseph H. Lewis...
Music For Nuke ‘Em High Movie
A CROSS-dressing singer and music producer from Darwen has composed the soundtrack to a...
The Giant Behemoth
The Giant Behemoth was one of the last giant monster-on-the-loose films of the 1950’s,...
The Trendsetting Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman was born on June 1, 1912, in New York City. She was...
Akira
‘Akira’ is an astonishingly influential film, easily as much so as cinema’s touchstones Citizen...
Intro To Anime
The real history of the medium is frequently chaotic and bizarre (as is the...
Coffy
Pam Grier made many movies in the 1970s, but ‘Coffy’ as much as anything,...
Fast & Furious 6
There’s an amusing disclaimer in the credits for Fast & Furious 6, along the...
Shark Hunter
I really love bad movies. The lower the budget and more ridiculous premise the...
Arnold In Toxie
What’s weirder, that the former Governor of California might appear in “The Toxic Avenger,”...