Take a Hard Ride
Dir: Antonio Margheriti – Cast: Jim Brown (Pike), Lee van Cleef (Kiefer), Fred Williamson (Tyree), Catherine Spaak (Catherine), Jim Kelly (Kashtok), Barry Sullivan (Sheriff Kane), Dana Andrew, Harry Carey Jr., Ricardo Palacios – Music: Jerry Goldsmith Made roughly a decade…
Lee Van Cleef
Born on January 9, 1925 to parents of Dutch ancestry, Lee Van Cleef grew up in the pleasant farm community of Sommerville, New Jersey. Coming of age just in time for World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy…
Sabata
lthough Lee Van Cleef is wearing a kind of Colonel Mortimer outfit, Sabata is much closer in spirit to director Gianfranco Parolini’s own If you meet Sartana, Pray for your Death. 1969 was a difficult year for the Italian western…
FEARNET’s February Programming Brings World of Horror to Smallscreen
Revenge and heaping doses of it from Asia are what FEARNET is cooking up for you in February. Highlights OLDBOY, SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, AND SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, AT 8 P.M. ET/5 P.M. PT FEARNET…
Defcon 4
Let’s get it out of the way first thing: The critics of the 80s like Leonard Maltin and Siskel/Ebert who sadistically maligned DEF-CON 4 as a wretched exercise in scum & sleaze were WRONG. I agree with another comment stating…
Empire of Ash
In a post-apocalyptic future, cities have been destroyed so the survivors roam the remaining forests. An aggressive, traveling gang of “maniac warriors”, named LARD, which stands for, what else, Leukocytes Acquisitors for Remission of Disease, go around terrorizing and killing…
The World’s End
No movie career is complete without a thematic trilogy, and actor Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright have got together, after each making a couple of larger, more expensive movies, to add The World’s End to Shaun of the Dead…
B-movie director, William A Wellman’s Wings
In the mid-20s, Hollywood’s movie moguls were always on the lookout for grand projects to head their annual schedules, and in 1926 Paramount (then the major studio) bought Wings, a Great War flying story by John Monk Saunders. A wartime…
The Call
One minute she’s a Bond girl and an A-list actress; the next she’s making straight-to-the-shelf efforts like The Call. Pulpy B movie that it is, The Call is a decent thriller/chiller that’s strong on characters and nicely paced. Berry plays…
Tara Reid and Ian Ziering Set to Shoot Sharknado 2
It really was just an inevitability, after the unexpected success of the Syfy original B-movie Sharknado, there had to be sequel. It’s now been confirmed that both Tara Reid and Ian Ziering will reprise their roles as April and Fin…
Tomorrow Night
Louis C.K.’s decision to make Tomorrow Night, his never-released, independently financed first feature from 1998, available for $5 on his website, is the kind of offhandedly iconoclastic gesture that has endeared the comedian to his fans (a group to whose…
AIP Remakes Coming Soon
Samuel Arkoff’s son Lou Arkoff, writer-producer Jeff Katz and Hal Sadoff are teaming to remake 1950s cult pics from the Arkoff-Nicholson library of American Intl. Pictures. Katz, Arkoff and Sadoff will initially update 10 of the 25 low-budget titles in…
Animation Legend Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89
Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, has died. He was 89.Rankin died Thursday at his home by Harrington Sound in Bermuda, The Royal…
The Naked Kiss and Michael Dante
Michael Dante has had a film and TV career that included acting alongside such legends as Edward G. Robinson and Elvis Presley and a starring role in one of the key cult movies of the 1960s, director Sam Fuller’s “The…
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Bing Russell was a B-movie actor in the 50s and 60s who estimated he had been shot dead 127 times in Hollywood westerns and played the deputy sheriff through 13 seasons of Bonanza. But his most lasting legacy came thanks…
Zombie Burlesque
Tired of waiting for a “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” movie? There’s a Las Vegas show which at least offers a taste of how “Cabaret”-with-zombies would mash up. Enoch Scott’s emcee of “Zombie Burlesque” isn’t all that much more pasty-faced…
Turkish Star Wars or Dünyayi kurtaran adam
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star Wars, the plot is mostly unrelated. Directed by Çetin İnanç…
Mindscape
English-language thriller with sci-fi overtones from Spanish first-timer Jorge Dorado represents the first outing for Jaume Collet-Serra’s Ombra Films. “We’re playing those mind games together,” sang John Lennon, and on the evidence of Mindscape, its director, writers and characters must…
Enemies Closer
While his days as a big screen action hero seem to have passed, Jean-Claude Van Damme makes a damn fine villain, as illustrated in the new thriller Enemies Closer. While this reunion with director Peter Hyams will hardly match the…
An Afternoon with Wondercrust
How many dick mentions are in an interview with a comedy collective? Only three, surprisingly — at least when you interview Riley Morris and Naaman Rodges of Shut Up and Prance. Instead they lead with homicide and wiretapping. Morris was…