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Foundational Cinema

Month: February 2017

Billy Jack (1971)

The half-breed Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) lives in an Indian reservation protecting the Indians, the stallions and the students of the Freedom School, a peaceful art school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor) and where the students can choose their…

Patrick (1978)

After killing his mother and her lover by electrocution. Patrick is now in a coma, where he has been bed-ridden for the past three years in a private hospital. The reason for him being kept on life support is that…

Ape (1976)

As a big fan of giant monster movies from the orient such as Godzilla and Gamera I had a to check out APE, the film that has so many alternate titles which in My opinion is hilarious such as APE:…

Satan’s Satellites (1958)

“Satan’s Satellites,” like its 1958 companion feature “Missile Monsters,” was derived of footage from a Republic serial, in this case 1952’s “Zombies of the Stratosphere,” showcasing the famed Rocket Man costume introduced in 1949’s “King of the Rocket Men.” As…

Stand-Up Neurotica – New Comedy

At a New York City comedy club, a manager clings to sanity while dealing with his lesbian ex-wife, a staff of colorful characters, and comedians who guest star and perform on each episode. Stand-Up Neurotica was created by Writer, Director,…

Mindy Robinson Spotlight

Written By: Keith Makenas “She’s talented, beautiful and a leader on set. A true soldier!” Joe Hollow Director, A BLOOD STORY Truly an exquisite actress, Mindy Robinson has appeared in over a hundred fifty films and TV series.  She’ll make…

Battlestar Galactica (1978) Rest In Peace Richard Hatch

While Battlestar Galactica saw only a television release is the USA, in foreign markets it was a major theatrical release. The leaders of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind are making plans to sign a peace treaty with their mortal enemies,…

Blood Bath (1966)

This is complicated so pay attention. Roger Corman bought an unfinished film shot in Europe called OPERATION TITIAN concerning the hunt by both cops and crooks for a stolen Titian painting. Patrick Magee was the star. At the same time…

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Still playing on double-bills with The Rocky Horror Picture Show in England, Brian DePalma’s foray into the psychodelic world of the musical excesses that was the 70’s becomes more than just another rock musical. With a fusion of Faust, Dorian…

The Hot Box (1972)

In the jungles of South America. Lynn, Bunny, Ellie and Sue are American nurses working at a hospital clinic in the Latin-American republic of San Rosario. They are kidnapped by some bandits, who were hired by Flavio the leader of…

Terror Is a Man (1959)

Fitzgerald is the only survivor of a shipwreck and he finds himself washed up on an luscious Pacific island, which is inhabited by a close-minded doctor, his unsatisfied wife and edgy assistant. That night they found Fitzgerald, the doctor’s experimental…

Eyeball (1975)

Umberto Lenzi doubtlessly is one of the greatest and most multi-talented Italian Cult directors, who has contributed gems to pretty much any genre and sub-genre Italian genre-cinema has brought forth, be it rough Poliziotteschi like “Milano Oida… La Polizia Non…

Road House (1948)

Jean Negulesco’s Road House must have inspired that sentence (or rather fragment). With her voice shredded by Scotch and Luckies, Ida Lupino is the thrush, the canary, whose smoldering cigarettes leave a bar-code of burns scarring the smart paint of…

Back from the Dead (1957)

“Back from the Dead” (1957) has Marsha Hunt visiting her pregnant sister, Peggie Castle, who is married to Arthur Franz. He lost his first wife “Felicia” a year ago when she fell from a cliff. A cult of Satanists is…

Panic in the Streets (1950)

When a stiff turns up with pneumonic plague (a variant of bubonic plague), U.S. Public Health Service official Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) immediately quarantines everyone whom he knows was near the body. Unfortunately, the stiff got that way by…

A Bright Shining Light

Sometimes in the darkness of a winter’s night a light can emerge which illuminates a path for a weary traveler. In my posts as of late I have bemoaning the off course direction the motion picture exhibition industry has been…

Blonde Sinner (1956)

True “Blonde bombshells” of a starring nature come along only once or twice in a decade, and the number from, say, 1930 to 1960 is not all that many: Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Kim…

Gigantis The Fire Monster (1955)

Another of Godzilla’s species is discovered on an island, along with a spiky creature called Angilusaurus (or Angilus for short). Before long the two monsters are wrecking havoc. Though this film was rushed out, it has the advantages of being…

My Baby Is Black! (1961)

The subject of race and sexual relationships is even a hot button topic in our world today, so it was probably almost taboo to broach the subject in the 1960’s. Yet, that is what this little French films tries to…

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Pickup On South Street is one of the most brilliant movies ever made. An example of the directing: When Candy (Jean Peters) starts going through her purse and notices her wallet is missing, an alarm goes off in the background…