Into The Storm
Hollywood disaster films are devoted to the proposition that the world ends with a bang and a whimper. A-movie thunder in nature and the elements; B-movie bleating in the dialogue and human drama, sometimes given deceptive bravura by an all-star…
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
My mother recommended this movie to me, saying that I would love it (that is because she was a huge fan of it when she was a kid). Considering the fact that I love Don Knotts (he is hysterical on…
Robinson Crusoe On Mars
Made in a time where Cecil B. Demille was considered an auteur, ‘Robinson Crusoe on Mars’ represents the end of an age of filmmaking where premise attracted more than gimmick; where the process of demarcation between glamorous studio artifice and…
Lets It Snow….Dead Snow 2
The first Dead Snow movie was such a brilliant piece of B-movie madness that a sequel was inevitable. A new movie is coming to theaters just in time for Halloween but some think that the poster might scare some theaters…
Scarecrow Goes Non-Profit
On a sunny August weeknight, Matt Lynch, a clerk at longtime Seattle rental store Scarecrow Video, grabbed a cup of ice from the shop’s relatively new coffee counter. Cutely named VHS-presso, the counter was one of the shop’s many efforts…
American Ninja
Ask a thousand people what the greatest unintentional comedy of all time is, and they will almost invariably tell you Battlefield Earth or Plan 9 From Outer Space. They’re wrong. American Ninja has those two turkeys beat down for a…
Jellyfish Eyes
One of the most famous and culturally relevant painters and sculptors working today, Takashi Murakami has collaborated with musicians such as Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, designed for Louis Vuitton, and exhibited at Versailles. His mixed generational appeal goes far…
Slaying Dragons
Reign Of Fire (2002) For many summer movie fans, the life of Reign Of Fire began with a bit of old-fashioned flimflammery when the trailers and especially the poster promised a large-scale battle between human-piloted helicopters and vast armies of…
13 Sins
A remake of a 2006 Thai thriller known in America as “13: Game of Death,” “13 Sins” is an implausible but agreeably pulpy (and occasionally bloody) B movie about a financially stressed young man (Mark Webber) in New Orleans who…
Death Goes North
There’s nothing like the thrill of watching a movie made in your own backyard, especially if the cameras happened to be rolling there 75 years ago. We’ll get the chance to do that under the stars on Saturday night at…
Ed Nelson, Roger Corman and the explosion of the B-movie
Ed Nelson’s path to Hollywood went right through a Louisiana swamp. There he was in 1955, stuck in an abandoned hotel near Bayou Lacombe, schlepping as a “gofer” for aspiring filmmaker Roger Corman on the set of Corman’s second directing…
Director Joe Lawson is being honored at the 2015 B Movie Celebration
Rising genre director Joe Lawson is being honored at the 2015 B Movie Celebration being held August 16th, 17th and 18th 2015 in Nashville Indiana. Joseph J. Lawson is a writer/director best known for his controversial debut Nazis at the…
Jerry Lewis’ ‘Nutty Professor’ And More
Jerry Lewis’ “The Nutty Professor,” in a Blu-ray upgrade, leads a bevy of vintage titles on home video for the first time. (Warner Archive titles are available at warnerarchive.com.) “The Nutty Professor: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” (Warner/Blu-ray, 1963, four discs,…
Cold in July
Writer-director Jim Mickle’s adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s pulp novel is a genre picture that can’t settle on a genre — which is what makes it so entertaining. “Cold In July” starts out as a suspense picture, with Michael C….
Announcing the dates of 2015’s B Movie Celebration
Announcing the dates of the 9th Annual B Movie Celebration to be held at our new home The Brown County Playhouse, August 14th, 15th and 16th 2015 in Nashville Indiana Announcing The 9th Annual B Movie Celebration The 8th Annual…
I Walked With A Zombie
With the second World War approaching it’s end, there were a mixture of films which were either war or death based. On one side of the scale we were presented with films which represented the other side of warfare, classics…
Robot Chicken
‘Robot Chicken’. Hmm, that’s definitely and eye-catching title, don’t you think? At least, that’s what I thought when I first heard of it whilst browsing through my dad’s collection of strange and funny series. I thought to myself, “A robot…
Rebuilding The Original Star Wars
Star Wars is close to holy for many fans of cinema. We remember growing up with the movies, and having them look a very specific way. You think of the colors of certain scenes, and the fact that Han shot…
The Werewolf (1956)
Lensed by the same director of the bigger budgeted Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers and meant to be a companion for the lower half of the bill The Werewolf surprised everybody by being a taut face value chiller with more…
Torment
Saying Torment is bad is putting it mildly…it’s bad bad bad. Showcased here is some of the worst acting I have ever seen. It is not laughably bad it is just irritating and makes you angry to have to watch…