Love/Hate and George Lucas
Something was happening, On May 25th, 1977 a movie was released which was sending shockwaves through popular culture. Star Wars, a science fantasy film by American Graffiti wunderkind George Lucas had set the film world on fire. I had decided to wait…
Dinoshark (2010)
Dinoshark starts in Alaska where a huge chunk of ice falls into the Ocean, frozen deep within the 150 million year old ice is a small prehistoric shark that promptly thaws out & swims away. Jump forward ‘Three Years Later’…
Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014)
‘Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark’ is a monster/disaster film directed by Emile Edwin Smith and released straight to DVD in early 2014. The film is the third instalment of the ‘Mega Shark Trilogy’, successor to ‘Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus’…
Sharktopus (2010)
This is not a horror or an action sci-fi movie. It is a comedy, but not your normal kind of comedy that you are used to seeing. There are no crazy characters or silly jokes. The real joke is in…
The Undead (1957)
I have to admit that I was somewhat underwhelmed by it on this initial viewing – even if I readily concede that it’s one of Corman’s most ambitious and interesting efforts from this era (with a plot clearly inspired by…
Youtube Killed The Movie Star
Elmo Lincoln, the first on-screen Tarzan was in the middle of negotiation with First National Picture in the early 1920,s. Lincoln’s agent was in the throes of very heated negotiation and it was not going well for their side. An…
Francis in the Navy (1955)
This is the sixth and final film of the series produced by Universal that included Donald O’Connor, and director Arthur Lubin, who created the sequence. It would be charitable to state that this entry is up to the best of…
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU is certainly a juvenile, sometimes cardboard, horror movie, not least because zombie monsters were pretty juvenile after Victor Halperin and before George Romero. However this effort was made to please the juvenile within someone of any…
Jungleground (1995)
Lt. Jake Cornell (Roddy) is a Canadian cop who is somewhat on the edge, but he gets pushed to his limits when he must survive in a ruthless, lawless urban center of the Great White North called Jungleground. The gang…
Jack of Hearts (2000)
The Jack of Hearts Review The Premise- A former cop from Florida, Jack Newland, moves to Vegas to get a new start after being ousted from the Police force amid a department scandal. He finds Vegas is run by 2…
Toad Warrior (1996)
“Toad Warrior” is a mixture between “Hell comes to Frogtown” and “The Roller Blade Seven” without the charm of the original “Frogtown” movie. Joe Estevez as Mr. Big Micky O Malley gives this one a fine comedy touch, legendary Conrad…
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
When one watches a 50’s space movie, it’s very easy to make fun of how outdated they are. Of course, now that we know how to travel to space it is easy to say it, but in those movies, they…
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Eddie Cahn’s “Invisible Invaders” is a fun film despite its extremely low budget, especially for fans of the genre, thanks to an interesting premise and memorable performances from genre stars John Carradine and John Agar.”Plan 9 From Outer Space” –…
The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
The second entry in Fu Manchu-Christopher Lee series set in London and based on Sax Rohmer’s characters . At the film there are action, adventures, thrills, sadism and atmospheric outdoors filmed in London . Produced , as always, in average…
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
One’s expectations for an early-60s B movie from American International Pictures are never very high. But this movie was a surprisingly well thought out & thought-provoking story. Just as a family has left LA for a vacation in the woods,…
The Flight That Disappeared (1961)
I watched this movie for two reasons: 1) I was practically raised on low-budget sci-fi & horror, having spent many a Saturday mid-morning watching this stuff on a local independent station’s “creature feature” matinee, and 2) nowadays to see whether…
Bethany – Press Release
Claire moves back into her childhood home with her husband. The abusive, traumatic memories of her mother return to haunt her — as her husband becomes busier with work, she finds herself in a fog of memories — as a…
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
“Invasion of the Star Creatures” is simply one of the dumbest films I have ever seen. Despite the star creatures looking completely ridiculous and about as scary as a bowl of tapioca, the film is NOT dumb because of this…
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
It’s hard to believe 1973’s “Invasion of the Bee Girls,” also known as “Graveyard Tramps” (Yeah, that’s a good title – rolling my eyes), was written by Nicholas Meyer, who went on to direct significant films like “Star Trek II,”…
The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
A psycho killer is stalking the waitresses of the “Swing-a-Ling Club”. While his identity is no mystery to the viewers, the dense characters and the police are a different story. So will the killer run out of the stuck-up and…