Cry of the Banshee (1970)
I’m trying to work my way through Vincent Prices body of work and I’ve seen some pretty impressive stuff like for example the really excellent Roger Corman directed The Fall of the House of Usher. The hokey and fun The…
Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Combs was born on September 9th, 1954 in Oxnard, California. He grew up in Lompoc, California with a plethora of siblings both older and younger. He attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, and the…
California Dreaming (1979)
Dennis Christopher of “Breaking Away” fame delivers a solid, engaging performance as T.T., a gawky, disenchanted, fresh out of high school adolescent hick from Chicago who comes to the cool California beaches to find women, contentment and excitement by becoming…
The Boy From Stalingrad
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) is all but unknown today, which piqued my curiosity. While it’s not a major discovery, it is a provocative time-capsule piece from World War II, when Russia was our ally. This simple B movie focuses…
Notable Film Composer Launches Site
“I can’t believe I’m doing this with my royalty free music,” says film composer, Chuck Cirino. He’s talking about his new website, Fearless Media Music. Cirino has been scoring Hollywood movie and television music since 1986 including his classic B…
Paul Mazursky dies at 84
Paul Mazursky, the Oscar-nominated writer-director who excelled at mining the urban middle class for laughs as well as tears in such movies as “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” “Blume in Love,” “An Unmarried Woman” and “Down and Out…
King of the Ants (I) (2003)
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals. “King of the Ants” is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer…
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil (2010)
Director David Decoteau’s (“Puppet Master III”, “Curse of the Puppet Master” and “Retro Puppet Master”) 2010 direct-to-DVD prequel “Puppet Master: Axis of Evil” is quite a surprise. It’s not a good movie by any means, don’t get me wrong. It’s…
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
I first saw THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT in the early 1980s and as a sequel to the fondly remembered THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT I was very disappointed in it . Having seen it again over 20 years later…
Insectula
Insectula http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043887 “A giant alien mosquito-type insect is drawn to earth from the CO2 pollution in search of blood. Del, a government agent, loses loved ones to the creature and is on a personal vendetta while the Dr. Kempler is…
Samuel Z. Arkoff
By the early 1950’s, Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now-infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.‘s social circle. As a shark,…
The She-Creature (1956)
This movie is, of course, artistically bankrupt. It is artless, tedious and frankly illogical. It is, however, rather watchable in an odd sort of way… Not quite in the Plan 9 fashion, where you’re left laughing all the time, because…
Day of the Animals (1977)
Day of the Animals: 4/10: Filmed in glare-o-vision (either to emulate a world without ozone or to give me a headache) Day of the Animals ask what if all the animals went crazy and decided to work together to kill…
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
No one sits down (or should sit down) to a Beach Party film expecting anything high-brow or even challenging. These are the epitome of fluff, corniness and escapism. Title credits play out over a kooky, mildly amusing drawing of various…
Space Truckers (1996)
When he is late in delivering a consignment of square pigs to boss Keller, space trucker John Canyon gets into a fight and is forced to take the first available load and flee the space station with young trucker Mike…
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
This public domain movie available for legal download www.Archive.org has little to recommend it. A very cheaply made, two set movie that consists almost entirely of stock footage and a bunch of scientists shoving bits of paper at each other…
‘Snowpiercer’ Review
Snowpiercer imagines a future where an attempt to fix global warming backfires, plunging earth into another ice age. The only survivors of the calamity are the passengers aboard “The Snowpiercer,” a massive train powered by a perpetual engine, which makes…
Five Against A Bullet
Sometimes in this world of constant sequels, remakes and cartoons, you wish some studio would just drop everything and really bring it with some original content. Just make a movie with attitude, style, violence and a point of view. It…
Beware of the ‘Cobragator’
On a muggy, rain-slick, mosquito-infested Monday morning, famed B-movie director Jim Wynorski cursed the skies as he stood at the mouth of a cave in the swamps of Caverns State Park. “(Bleep, bleep) planes, I hate them,” Wynorski said as…
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
From this movie, I learned that I had seen every single one of Ray Harryhausen’s films. My personal favorite was JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, which I’ve seen to date at least fifty times. However, all of them were immensely entertaining…