Will ‘Zombeavers’ Be as Good as ‘Sharknado’?
Last summer, Syfy’s TV-movie Sharknado took Twitter by storm and became one of the most talked about television events for weeks. Sharknado was so popular it was played in theaters around the country (for only one night, but that’s still…
Offbeat facts about 86th Academy Awards
Here is a selection of interesting and offbeat facts about the 86th Academy Awards, taking place Sunday in Hollywood: – At 23, Jennifer Lawrence, in the running for the best supporting actress Oscar for “American Hustle,” is the youngest actress…
Ant-Man Casting
News broke yesterday that Conjuring star Patrick Wilson is in talks to join Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, Marvel’s summer 2015 blockbuster about the little superhero with the big heart or whatever. Wilson has been on a bit of a roll lately,…
Liam Neeson claims his crown as B-movie king
Liam Neeson looks for his daughter … or something. Photograph: Myles Aronowitz “Nervous flyer?” asks Julianne Moore after she notices Liam Neeson fiddling nervously before take off. “It never quite goes away,” Neeson replies. You don’t know the half of…
The Bag Man: Film Review
A desolate, rundown motel is not the worst setting for a thriller, but viewers hoping that The Bag Man may be a latter-day counterpart to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho are sure to be disappointed. First-time director David Grovic enlisted two high-class…
Keeping The Canuxploitation Flames Burning, David Lloyd
For some reason the name David Lloyd and screenwriting has developed some bizarre cinematic law of attraction. The American David Lloyd, one of the most prolific TV comedy writers of all time. Lloyd turned out over 150 television scripts, 83…
Solitude
A teaser trailer has been released for indie horror anthology “Solitude”. Directed by Taylor Scott Olson, Livingston Oden and starring Armin Habibovich, Victoria LaChelle, Brent Latchaw, Alex Cotant, Glen Stone, Kelly Lavasseur, Amy Correll, Nicole Kruex Solitude will take place…
The Scary Piper Laurie
There were a thousand things wrong with the 2013 remake of Carrie. It took Stephen King’s story of a bullied teen pushed into a killing spree and reimagined it as what director Kimberly Peirce called a “superhero origin story.” It…
Footprints Of A B-movie Giant
IN the opening pages of Chris Nashawaty’s highly entertaining book about Roger Corman, John Landis tells a story about his first meeting with the master of the B-movie. It was 1971, and 21-year-old Landis was trying to raise money to…
Seven Hours of Gunfire (Aventuras del Oeste)
Rik Van Nutter, best known for his appearance as Felix Leiter in Thunderball, is Bill Cody, that is Buffalo Bill. He’s asked by the government to track down the gun-runners who sell Winchester rifles to the Indians. Several tribes are…
The Cars That Eat People
Pulling quite a switcheroo on audiences, The Cars That Ate Paris is a film that it is best to be clear about before viewing. This emphatically isn’t a crazed barrage of vehicular madness, nor is it set in France. With…
Sharknado 2: The Second One Storms Citi Field
Citi Field was struck by a vicious Sharknado yesterday during a Mets game, sending fans into a panic and causing widespread chaos and death.Of course, killer sharks were not really falling from the sky. This was a shoot for “Sharknado…
Tarzan
Tarzan wears his trademark loincloth while the actor playing him sports a full-body motion-capture suit in Constantin Film’s clunky-looking riff on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character, which gives literature’s most organic hero a robotic, pre-“Polar Express” appearance. Targeted at a…
Amazing Godzilla Trailer
“Maybe there’s a little Godzilla… in all of us.” That is the final line of Godzilla 2000, a movie which embraces just one of two sides to the Godzilla canon — that is, the silly, deadpan humor which invites us…
Jim Wynorski’s Classic B-Movie The Lost Empire Heading to DVD in April
Back in 1983 Jim Wynorski shot his first film, The Lost Empire, which has itself been “lost” for several years. Finally, on April 22nd it’s getting its long-awaited home video release on DVD. From the Press Release: In 1983 a…
Tara Reid On Sharknado
Sharknado was the surprise hit of 2013. And Tara Reid was just as shocked as everybody else by the B-movie’s huge success. In a new interview with HLNTV, the 38-year-old actress opens up on working on the film’s sequel and…
Animal House
This raunchy comedy was a major success at the time of its release (grossing well over $100 million in theaters alone) and still maintains a strong cult following on home video. It is the gross-out boys-only flick that launched a…
Ib Melchior:Inside Stories
This book was a long time coming. We’ve needed it for many reasons, not the least of which is setting the record straight. No one in Hollywood ever had to fight harder to get real science fiction in front of…
Angry Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1959 science fiction film starring Gerald Mohr and directed by Ib Melchior. Melchior was only given 10 days and a budget of $200,000 to make…
The Bursting Of A Movie Bubble
The indie film industry is cannibalizing itself. Manohla Dargis is right – there are too many films in the ecosystem. And this oversupply didn’t just happen. John Sloss warned back in 2007 that the industry’s problem was not a shortage of films, but a…