She Sings to the Stars – Trailer and Stills
Deadwood’s Larry Cedar in the film you’ll be raving about by year’s end, She Sings to the Stars http://shesingstothestars.com https://www.facebook.com/SheSingstotheStarsMovie Without water, a Native American grandmother continues to inhabit the desert, both ancient and alien. Her half-Hispanic grandson rushes to…
One Eyed Jacks (1961)
One-Eyed Jacks not only is a superb Western, one of my all-time favorites, it is also an excellent Oedipal drama that moves beyond the bounds of genre into the mytho-poetic. Brando and Karl Malden both turn in outstanding performances, and…
Dolemite (1975)
The blaxploitation genre certainly produced some bizarre oddities that’s for sure. Dolemite is firmly in this category. On a technical level its appalling, with bad camera work, acting, action and story. The boom mic is visible so often that it…
Nurses For Sale (1971)
The story: A captain from Hamburg brings his ship in some Latin American port. But his main cargo, sugarcane alcohol in barrels, is confiscated by customs, so he orders to dump them overboard (and at least allow some bystanders to…
Death in the Desert – Review
Death in the Desert is a love triangle set in the fast-paced, sometimes lonely world of Las Vegas. The life of Kim Davis, the young live-in girlfriend of legendary casino owner Ray Easler, is thrown upside down when she falls…
Lady Frankenstein (1971)
“I am, my father’s daughter”. She sure is! And a whole lot more! This sleazy Frankenstein imitation (of Hammer’s “The Horror of Frankenstein”) is beyond warped with its kinky fixations with seedy sex and red paint jobs (gore, of course)…
The Bat (1959)
Cornelia (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery writer who temporarily moves into a mansion to attempt to get some work done. She later learns that the homeowner embezzled money and hid it in somewhere in the house. After he turns up…
The Time Machine (1960)
In 1960, filmmaker George Pal brought to fruition a visionary concept for a film based on a novel by H.G. Wells, about an inventor who builds a machine that enables him to travel through time, specifically into the future, where…
Night Monster (1942)
Ever spook yourself in a darkened room ? (Great fun!) Ever get spooked by inanimate objects in a room based on their shadows on the wall? (I used to have nightmares as a child (about 5 years of age) due…
A Night At A Beloved Community Movie Theatre
Last night I attended an event in support of a locally owned community movie theatre. It was a fundraiser for the programming put on by the movie theatre. As opposed to going out to large corporations to underwrite its operation,…
Reptilicus (1961)
Reptilicus is truly a bad, but fun movie to watch. From the incredibly awful monster which was photographed in such an unconvincing manner as to look exactly as big as it was (about 2 feet long) to the routine “giant…
Crippled Avengers (1978)
Right off the bat, the structure of this movie seems disjointed with a seemingly unnecessary flashback of an attack on the antagonists’ home, rendering the son an amputee. But this is a recurring theme in the director’s work: what do…
C.H.U.D. (1984)
C.H.U.D. is set in New York City where Flora Bosch (Laure Mattos) disappears, her husband New York police Captain Bosch (Christopher Curry) is obviously concerned. Captain Bosch knows that his wife isn’t the only person to disappear recently & a…
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982)
ATOR THE FIGHTING EAGLE was evidently rushed into production to cash-in on the success of CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982); versatile (if not exactly talented) and multi-purpose “Euro-Cult” figure D’Amato shrewdly (but, perhaps, unwisely since the result is just as dire)…
Crippled Avengers (1978)
Right off the bat, the structure of this movie seems disjointed with a seemingly unnecessary flashback of an attack on the antagonists’ home, rendering the son an amputee. But this is a recurring theme in the director’s work: what do…
X:The Man With The X Ray Eyes (1963)
o this writer, the film is Roger Corman’s best entry into sci-fi. Many of his 50s efforts hold a certain campy charm, with their low-budget effects – and this film is similar in that regard. It does not dwell on…
Foxy Brown (1974)
In 1973, the film “Coffy” made Pam Grier a star, a permanent icon of the blaxploitation films of the era, and a symbol of female empowerment in the face of racial tension. She also kicked a whole lot of tail….
The Killer Shrews (1959)
With their little beady eyes and murderous poison-tipped fangs flashing a wolf-pack of some 200 to 300 giant killer shrews have overrun an almost deserted island off the US Atlantic coast devouring everything on it in order to stay alive…
The Spotlight Shines on Gabriel Campisi
“I was asked how long I would try to succeed in filmmaking before I’d give up. I said giving up was not an option, and if I didn’t make it, I’d die trying.” –Gabriel Campisi. Fortunately, Campisi didn’t have to…
The Raven (1963)
This movie is loosely based around the famous Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name. However, I don’t think this is what the great literary genius had in mind when he originally wrote it; as Corman has turned the…