The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
Despite an lengthy and variously successful career in sci-fi and horror movies, it is this movie that I personally feel is the crowning glory of Roger Corman’s career. It is also, I feel, one of the greatest and most underrated…
Stuart Gordon
Stuart Gordon is a creative horror film director who started his directing career in 1985. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, Gordon worked as a commercial artist prior to enrolling at the University of Wisconsin as Madison as an…
Timecop (1994)
This is one of the best Action/Sci-Fi films ever made in my opinion with a kick ass story and 2 amazing performances from Van Damme and Mia Sara!. All the characters are wonderful, and i think this is Van Damme’s…
Duel (1971)
We all get stuck behind them sometimes: The huge trucks blocking your lane, blowing diesel fumes and spraying rocks from the ground all over your windshield. You try to pass them but sometimes it’s just no use–they won’t move out…
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Lieutenant McAllister is ordered to transport several ammunition wagons to another fort through Apache territory with only a small troop of rookie soldiers to guard them. Along for the ride is ex-scout Jess Remsberg who is trying to track down…
Richard Attenborough Dies Aged 90
Lord Richard Attenborough, the actor and film director, has died just days before his 91st birthday. After forging a career as an actor in films including Brighton Rock and The Great Escape, he became an acclaimed film director, winning two…
Brannigan (1975)
From the time I saw Brannigan in the theaters as a kid, through a number of chances to watch it again over the years, it has been one of my favorite movies. I grew up with the crime dramas of…
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,…