A Field In England
A black-and-white psychological horror drama, set during Britain’s 17th-century Civil Wars and involving buried treasure and trippy hallucinations? Hi-ho, director Ben Wheatley and his co-writer wife, Amy Jump, are back in town. “A Field in England” is the latest and…
The Perpetual Sam Sherman
Writer, producer and distributor Samuel M. Sherman was born April 23, 1940, in New York City. He attended New York’s City College Film Institute, where he ran “Flash Gordon” serials and “The Mask of Fu Mancho” in the student film…
Adjust Your Tracking
If vinyl can make a comeback, why not VHS? That’s the question posed by one of the participants in Adjust Your Tracking, an entertaining documentary that’s hitting town as the latest entry in the Back Alley Film Series. …
KOUNTERCLOCKWISE in FOREVER-LAND
The KOUNTERCLOCKWISE in FOREVER-LAND Movie is Cleveland’s first sci-fi animated single hand drawn film based on the location of Cleveland created by Jim Lujan starring Kounterclockwise. FOREVER-LAND is a hidden dimension where strange characters, creatures, and lands exist under the…
VHS-The Story
The first VHS recorder was released to the public in Japan by JVC in 1976. The first one hit the United States in 1977. Little did anyone know at the time that this would be the beginning of one of…
300: Rise Of An Empire
300: Rise Of An Empire is a brainless, gore obsessed sequel to Zack Snyder’s already brutish original, lacking the honor and heroism that our Spartan warriors previously displayed. Fun fact – I had to screen 300: Rise Of An Empire…
Sharknado 2 premiere date announced, Perez Hilton to cameo
The original Sharknado premiered in July 2013, telling the story of a waterspout that lifts sharks out of the ocean, landing them on the streets of Los Angeles. Perez Hilton has been confirmed to be making a cameo in the…
REPO MAN
Repo Man is celebrating it’s thirtieth anniversary this month. You might think knowing a movie that is thirty years old and was made during my lifetime might make me feel a little old, but not so. Though, yes I was…
Capricorn One
NASA send a manned space mission to Mars but at the very last minute change their minds and ask the astronauts to take part in an elaborate hoax . They agree but a computer error at mission control states their…
Them! (1954)
Gordon Douglas is not a director one usually associates with the word masterpiece. Most of his movies are mediocre at best, and only a handful are even good, much less outstanding. Them!, however, is splendid. The premise is ludicrous, concerning…
The Legend Of The Werewolf
This was among my earliest recollections of watching a horror film, which occurred in the early 80s via a local TV broadcast (when my family still had a black-and-white set); therefore, I was very much looking forward to re-acquainting myself…
‘Non-Stop’ Is A Great B Movie
et’s be honest for a moment. There are two kinds of people out there. There are people who hear about a movie starring Liam Neeson as an air marshal and get excited wanting to hear more and people who rolled…
Saturn 3
Here’s another one of those movies that I saw as a kid and, despite being an average film, managed to completely mesmerize and captivate my imagination. I have read so many unfair reviews that I needed to speak out, so…
Destry Rides Again (1939)
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN is set in the hopelessly corrupt little town of Bottleneck, presided over as it is by the ruthless land-grabber and card shark Kent (Brian Donlevy) and his sexy partner-in-crime Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich). Sheriffs don’t last long in…
Conrad Brooks
Conrad Brooks was born as Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland. He’s the son of a Polish immigrant baker and has seven brothers and sisters. At age 17, along with his brothers Henry and Ted, he went…
B-movie Star Gail Gerber Dead At Age 76
At a time when beach party flicks were all the rage, teenage boys at drive-in theatres across North America eyed Gail Gerber, a Vancouver-raised B-movie starlet with blond hair and complementary curves, grace the silver screen in films like The…
Night Of The Creeps
After an “experiment” is accidentally released from a spaceship in a tube, it crashes on Earth where it infects a youth in the 1950s. Flash forward to the mid 1980s, and the youth is now cryogenically frozen in a university…
Five Quick Questions with The Kondelik Brothers
The Kondelik brothers both wrote and directed the Asylum’s soon to be released “Airplane vs Volcano”. They grew up watching classic 80s action and horror films and at an early age were creating short films with their VHS camera. Their…
The Chase
The Chase Release date: March 4th, 1994 (20th anniversary) Opening weekend box office: $3.4 million (#5, 1,633 screens) Other notable films opening that weekend: Greedy, a film starring Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas and written by Lowell Ganz and…
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dario Argento’s first dip into the directorial pool is a pot-boiler somewhere in the realm between Hitchcock and Jack the Ripper, classic noir and the “modern” cat-and-mouse serial killer picture. Argento’s method’s may still be in a slightly embryonic state…