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…
Harold Ramis, Thanks For The Laughs
Harold Ramis, a writer, director and actor whose boisterous but sly silliness helped catapult comedies like “Groundhog Day,” “Ghostbusters,” “Animal House” and “Caddyshack” to commercial and critical success, died on Monday in his Chicago-area home. He was 69. The cause…
Destination Moon
The 1950 film Destination Moon, based on the Heinlein book, is incredible for it’s accuracy of what was to come 19 years later. To show rocket physics in simple terms a Woody Woodpecker cartoon is used. Unlike some of the…
Dead Heads
A bloke wakes up in the middle of a zombie outbreak, we’ve all seen this before, but he doesn’t realise he IS a zombie! This movie was hilarious, a lot of references in it too, like when the car breaks…
Chiller Theatre
Chiller Theatre was a late-night horror and science fiction movie program on WIIC/WPXI, Channel 11, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It aired from September 14, 1963 to January 1, 1984. It was hosted by Bill Cardille, known to fans as “Chilly Billy“. It…
The Impact Of Dawn Of The Dead
The Dead Will Walk (2004) is a documentary on the making of Dawn of the Dead and the perspective of it’s impact from those who made it. This doco is also included in the special edition DVD of Dawn of…
The Paperboy
The most notable thing about The Paperboy was that it was written by David E Peckinpah, nephew of famous director Sam Peckinpah. Beyond that, it’s the kind of straight to video thriller audiences should be familiar with by now. The…
Incubus
INCUBUS is a most unusual, and unique “odd duck”; a gothic fairy tale screenplay filmed as an abstract horror movie, in the style of the European symbolists. Filming the script in an unknown language (“Esperanto”) assures that the film must…
Making Movies in Florida
The habit of bribing a manufacturer to move to Florida on grounds it creates jobs has been proven, time and again, a fool’s deal. Gifts of buildings, huge tax breaks and public expense to provide what is essentially private infrastructure,…
Vulgar Auterism
As late winter segues into early spring, movie fans are generally treated to the dregs at the bottom of each studio’s respective coffee pot: be they tonal misfires, bungled vanity projects or top-to-bottom exercises in abject misery, there’s often…
A Boy and His Dog B Movie Brilliance
1975’s “A Boy And His Dog” defies categorization, much like the outspoken author who penned its Nebula-winning source novella. Harlan Ellison has resisted the genre label for his entire 900+ short story career (“call me a ‘science fiction’ writer, and…
Run for the Sun
A pair of scribes find themselves on the run from a hunting party in this sweaty jungle thriller adapted from Richard Connell’s famous story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell was a born writer. His dad owned a paper,…
Sharknado 2 Starts Filming
The first one was a huge hit and nearly caused a Twitter meltdown. And now the sequel to Sharknado has started production and it’s taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Ian Ziering and Vivica A. Fox…
Knights of Badassdom
IDIOTS MIGHT GRIN when they see a fiery-eyed, supernatural Peter Dinklage give a knowing smile while avenging his bloody death at the teeth and talons of a hell-spawned succubus near the end of Knights of Badassdom. (Whoops! Spoiler alert!) He’s…