Tormented (1960)
Tom Stewart, the “best jazz pianist in the world,” is getting married to a young, rich beauty in a week…but not if his clingy, shapely ex-girlfriend can stop it. Vi Mason, a smoky singer with a body to rival Jayne…
Hollywood Shrugged
This is has been a tough three weeks for Tinsel Town. Sony Pictures has been deluged by a mudslide of acrimony and ridicule as a result of the first volley of the world’s first Cyberwar. Unit 121, a 1800 strong…
Swamp Women (1956)
SWAMP WOMEN opens and closes with profuse thanks to the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana for help in making this film. If any of the people who are mentioned actually saw SWAMP WOMEN they may have…
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
While not officially listed (on IMDb) as having been worked on by cult director Monte Hellman, he confirmed his involvement on this Corman cheapie during Criterion’s Audio Commentary for his own TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971). In fact, it was one of…
The Device – Five Quick Question with Jeremy Berg
Directed by: Jeremy Berg Starring: Angela DiMarco, David S. Hogan and Kate Alden Some alien genre films start off with an attack or conflict in attempt to grab the audience. The Device is much more personal and begins with two…
Rock All Night (1957)
I found “Rock All Night” to be fascinating, but I did fast forward the movie at times. It’s skillfully photographed, and the acting is good. Roger Corman certainly directed this very well in those respects. The story had me wondering…
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Everybody knows they want to see a movie with giant crabs decapitating people and then absorbing their brain powers. Especially if its directed by Roger Corman,(Undisputabely, king of the B’s.)Corman had just started his sci-fi romp when he made this…
Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
This is the second installment of the Daimajin trilogy although the three stories are not connected. Daimajin is a talismanic 50 ft stone statue embodied with the spirit of local god. It normally sits idle with a peaceful face, but…
Hot Times at Montclair High (1989)
I really hate 80’s teen movies truth be told (it was bad enough actually BEING a teenager in the 80’s without watching a bunch of movies about it). This movie though is almost an unintentional parody of 80’s teen movies,…
Teenage Doll (1957)
A teenage girl accidentally murders a member of a girl gang, and tries to escape both the police and the gang. 1957 sure was a good year for whiz-kid auteur Corman. He made FIVE masterpieces of 50’s genre cinema; ATTACK…
The Yellow Canary
Pat Boone plays a popular male crooner (with the silly, generic name of Andy Paxton) who is callous to his estranged wife and indifferent to their baby boy, but who jumps into action once the infant is kidnapped for a…
Hannibal (1959)
This exciting Peplum in average budget blends historic events ,drama and spectacular battles . This is an epic and fiction film released by the producer Ottavio Poggi and professionally directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Edgar G. Ulmer . Hannibal…
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Cabin in the Sky marks the debut of director Vincente Minnelli, one of cinema’s greatest and most prolific directors of musicals. Already an experienced stage director, pianist and perhaps most importantly of all a painter, Minnelli came to Hollywood as…
Body Waves (1992)
Rick has to make $3000 in two weeks to prove to his father that he’s not a loser and that he does not have to join the family business of selling hemorrhoid cremes. His first great idea is to sell…
Swing!
SWING! is an important film because it’s one of the remaining Black-produced and acted films from the 1930s. Many of these films have simply deteriorated so badly that they are unwatchable, but this one is in fairly good shape. It’s…
The Hunting Party (1971)
This movie had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. As wild westerns go, this ranks near the top. It’s very well paced, and the acting is superb. Plot twists and the unfolding of well-developed characters…
Spring Break (1983)
I’m hardly going to be the one to excoriate the makers of 1980s sex-fueled quasi-comedies for their work. Sure,these films were about as easily forgotten as the heaps of bad slasher flick sequels and wanna-bes that ALSO populated the cinemas…
Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
Made in the early 80’s when the 70’s car chase genre was winding down, chockablock with copious footage lifted from such previous Roger Corman-backed drive-in flicks as “Grand Theft Auto,” “Moving Violation,” “Eat My Dust!,” and “Thunder and Lightening,” coasting…
Five Quick Questions with Sasha Burrow
Sasha Burrow came to Los Angeles in 1999 and brought the most important thing he had, his dazzling creative mind. For most his life Sasha has been creating some amazing artwork and creatures. His talent not long after being in…
Greased Lightning (1977)
Richard Pryor shows his versatility, in this story of a black moonshine runner who forces his way into the white-dominated professional racing circuit. I’m not sure how historically accurate it is, but the film drew me into the story, right…