The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 1933 Who made it: Directed by James Whale. With Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers. Once upon a time: On a snowy night, a mysterious man wrapped in bandages comes to stay at a tiny inn, carrying…
The Scrap Metal That Is Robocop
Like it or not, “RoboCop” is here… again. Offering far more humanity than I had expected, this 2014 “RoboCop” is nowhere near the colossal clunker I had feared. Having said that, I couldn’t find anything distinguishable about the remake that…
The First Sex Symbol
Theda Bara (July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema’s earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles…
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter may not have been as high on other festival-goers’ radar, but it was one of my must-sees. The movie by Austin, Texas-filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner (Goliath, Kid-Thing), filmed Japan and Minnesota, did not disappoint….
The Killers
When it comes to 60s crime films, Don Siegel’s reimagining of The Killers is by no means a disappointment. From the get-go, the film never seems to be concerned with living up to the standards of the 1940s Film Noir…
Kelly Osbourne In Sharknado
Kelly Osbourne has landed a role in the forthcoming film Sharknado 2: The Second One, she has excitedly confirmed. Kelly, who currently co-hosts US TV show Fashion Police, will play the part of a flight attendant in the tongue-in-cheek B…
Cannibalism in The Movies
Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a pleasant pause in the action, sometimes it’s crucial staging platform for exposition, and sometimes it’s just a scoop of Ray Liotta’s…
Invasion of the Sci-fi Allegory
Since Georges Méliès sent audiences on A Trip to the Moon in 1902, the sci-fi genre has always been one of escapism and speculation. But beneath the surface of intergalactic wars and men in monster suits, filmmakers often use the…
Hercules: The Legend Begins
The priestess’ gaze is steely, imperious; the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. “Would you bear the son of Zeus?” she asks. The queen thinks about it, as if she’s being asked to take on some afternoon work tutoring…
Sid Caesar Dead at 91
One of TV’s very first stars is dead, reports Variety. Sid Caesar hosted the groundbreaking variety program Your Show of Shows beginning in 1950 and, later, Caesar’s Hour. Among the writers who got their start with him were Neil Simon,…
The Mad Mad World Of Charles Band
There’s definitely a buzz around B movies these days, with the genre seemingly, er, healthier than ever. Take Sharknado, which aired on SyFy and became a Twitter sensation. I think the only thing I managed to tweet last year was…
5 Zombie Flicks To Keep You Up At Night
It seems that zombies can be found almost everywhere lately. From films and television to video games and flash mobs, they have staggered their way into every nook and cranny of our culture. Over the past few years, AMC has…
Embrace The Trashiness: Nurse 3D
In this month’s Playboy, model-actress Paz de la Huerta can be seen posing tastefully nude, but in the dreary slasher film Nurse, she’s not just nude, she’s naked (in a Hustler way), and all the less compelling for it. She’s…
Zombi 2
ZOMBI 2 (otherwise known in the U.S. as just ZOMBIE and, in the U.K., as ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) is one of the best known zombie flicks to come out of Europe during the 70’s and 80’s. For those of you…
Rage of the Yeti
Rage of the Yeti is set on an island called Mercy in the Artic which has suffered a sudden heatwave which has melted lots of ice & snow & an old ship called the HMS Victoria which contains an ancient…
Snowpiercer
Breeding some of the most provocative, absorbing of feature films, the dystopian genre has a duty to not only compel and entertain its audience, but to provide a relatively convincing hypothetical prediction, of how the human race would respond to…
Ice Spiders
Ice Spiders is set in the Lost Mountain skiing resort in Logan County in Utah where hotshot skier Dan ‘Dash’ Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) works as a ski instructor, local ranger Rick Dickerson (K. Danor Gerald) ask’s Dash for help in…
Nurse 3D
A lurid B-movie horror thriller that seems mainly designed to fulfill its comely star Paz de la Huerta’s exhibitionist tendencies, Nurse 3D might have the inadvertent effect of increasing the number of male hospital patients under the mistaken belief that…
Zombeavers may be the next Sharknado
It seems that after the surprise success of a movie about sharks being sucked into tornadoes before attacking people, nothing is too ludicrous for Hollywood. Now the release of a new B-movie trailer has horror buffs chattering about the next…
Midsummer Nightmares II: Summers End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?[v=hkAmkRYBIho] Trailer “Midsummer Nightmares II” is the sequel to “Midsummer Nightmares” and stars Kelci Magel who was in the first film a as Liz and she’s in the upcoming film “Reunion” with Maria Olsen. Due to scheduling conflicts with Julie…