Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
I remember seeing this movie a long time ago, way back before they installed the cup holders on the theater seat arm rests. You know, the good old days. All I could remember was the bright lights and colors, the…
Val Lewton
Americans eager to forget distressing World War 2 newspaper headlines for a few hours were keen to let motion pictures facilitate that escape. At the same time, there was a subconscious desire to confront the menace and otherworldliness of the…
A 90 Year Feud
Joan Fontaine’s 1942 Oscar was so much more than a trophy. Competing head-to-head with her older, more famous sister — “Gone With the Wind” star Olivia de Havilland — it finally was proof the 24-year-old rising actress had exacted the…
Miami’s B-Movie Mogul
Two-thirds of the way into Il momento piu bello (The Most Wonderful Moment), a disconsolate Dr. Valeri (the baby-faced Marcello Mastroianni) bids arrivederci to the final two members of his Lamaze class, the latest setback to befall him in the…
The Return of Ringo
In The Return of Ringo, the legendary Giuliano Gemma is Montgomery Brown, knick-named Ringo, a man who comes back from the war. While making a stop in a bar on his way home, he outdraws two hired killers, sent out…
Red Ryder
The Red Ryder newspaper comic strip by Fred Harman ran from 1938-1964 and was the basis for a popular series of silver screen adventures. Republic Pictures had entered into an agreement with Stephen Slesinger (who owned the rights to the…
Big Ass Spider On Blu-Ray
BIG ASS SPIDER! is the ultimate B-Movie experience – hilarious, disaster-filled and action-packed! It stars Greg Grunberg (Heroes, Star Trek), Lombardo Boyar (24, Gone in 60 Seconds) and Ray Wise (Robocop, Reaper). It is the ultimate B-Movie experience – hilarious,…
How to Make a Monster
Video killed the radio star, but the list of casualties continues. A 40-station interactive show opening Dec. 21 at Telus World of Science explores the craft of realistic puppets that populated Hollywood films for decades — until high-definition computer graphics…
Dolph Lundgren, Robots, Zombies: Do you really need more?
Suck it, Sharknado! We thought you had brought together the greatest confluence of B-movie cliches known to man. Well, you lose to this Battle of the Damned trailer. And, as a bonus, it is not too shabby looking.We are in…
Ian Ziering” Taking On ‘Sharknado’
The SyFy original “Sharknado” may never make anyone’s Top 100 list of great movies, but no one can deny the B movie was one of the more entertaining pieces of 2013. For Ian Ziering, who starred in the film about…
The Dark Crimes Of Anthony Mann
The career of American filmmaker Anthony Mann (1906-1967) lasted from the early 1940s to the late 1960s. To a certain degree, his overall trajectory mirrored that of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole: he began with crime dramas and film noir…
The Wild Man Of Louisville: William Girdler
When one thinks of regional filmmakers, the name of William Girdler stands high indeed. Based out of Louisville, Kentucky for most of his career, Girdler made nine films between the years 1972 and 1978, in a variety of genres from…
A Look Back At Don Dohler
Don Dohler’s admittedly cheap’n’clunky low-budget independent horror and science fiction pictures will probably never be acknowledged as true works of cinematic art, but his films still nonetheless possess a certain raw energy and infectious feeling of pure go-for-it Do-It-Yourself enthusiasm…
The Call
Too many critics and pundits were too busy making fun of Halle Berry’s hair instead of noticing how tight and compelling her newest movie was. The picture has a corker of a premise, with Berry playing a 9-1-1 operator who…
Ho Ho Horror
Santa’s coming for some of you depending on your personal beliefs and so is the holiday season and that means its time for you to sit down and enjoy some holiday cheer and mayhem. Whether you celebrate the holiday or…
Billy Jack Passes
Tom Laughlin, the maverick actor and filmmaker best known for the “Billy Jack” films, has died. He was 82. Laughlin died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, his family announced. Laughlin had been married to actress Delores Taylor since 1954 and also…
King of the monsters
We’ve had demons, vampires, werewolves, aliens, shapeshifters, cyborgs, zombies, even an oversized monkey called Kong. But none has proved more enduring or malleable or fascinating to filmmakers and audiences alike than the one monster that did actually exist: the dinosaur….
Audrey Totter, femme fatale actress of film noir, dies at 95
Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood’s film noir period of the 1940s and ‘50s, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Woodland Hills,…
Spoofing Sharknado
In your daily dose of cringe media the Atlanta Hawks have attempted to bring their team to a viral level by having their cheerleading squad star in a video spoof of the B-Movie, “Sharknado”. “Sharknado” is about a bunch of…
When Shaft Ruled Hollywood
With the release of The Butler, Fruitvale Station, 12 Years a Slave and The Best Man Holiday, 2013 has been proclaimed a banner year for Black films as well as filmmakers of color. Indeed, while these cinematic feats are being…