Jackson County Jail
Eternally entrancing firebrand actress Yvette Mimieux scores her best, strongest, most commanding and effective role to date as a smart, classy, fiercely self-sufficient no bulls**t Los Angeles businesswoman who runs afoul of psycho hicks and rapist redneck cops when she…
Nemesis
In the future, chaos is rampant as ‘information terrorists’ threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man-part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions…
Stalker
Mark O’Connor snagged attention in 2011 with his bolshy debut Between The Canals, a city-centre saga that opened a fresh discussion about post-boom Dublin. Since then, the writer-director has championed the advent of an Irish New Wave that he feels…
When a Stranger Calls
The movie “When a stranger calls” starts off with young Jill Johnson, Carol Kane, coming over one evening to the Mandrakis residents to baby-sit for their two small children. As soon as the Mandrakis’ leave Jill starts getting phone calls…
Party Like its 1984, The 2014 B Movie Celebration
1984 was not all Big Brother, Big Hair, Big Pants ,Madonna and Prince, it was also a great year for movies. This year The B Movie Celebration, that once a year cinematic circus now in it’s 8th year, wants the…
Memories Of A Movie Riddled Youth
“I do not want to be the big looking glass of civilization but the little pocket mirror of everyday life.” — Peter Altenberg When Alan Ladd appeared in a movie called “This Gun for Hire,” slouching around in a trench…
Released This Week
An array of major movie stars from the past is in these vintage films that have found their way to DVD this week. (The Warner Archive titles can be found at warnerarchive.com) “Dear Heart” (Warner Archive, 1964, b/w, $18.95, trailer)….
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…