The Lego Movie
Kids go through phases of Legomania which keeps them off Grand Theft Auto and bankrupts their parents. In product placement terms, an animated film with the client’s name in its title is the equivalent of three lemons in a row…
The Beast of Hollow Mountain & The Neanderthal Man On Blu-Ray
Retro-kitsch DVD producer Shout! Factory is back with the latest in its line of double-feature re-releases, this time with a pairing that will warm the hearts of many ‘50s schlock lovers. Black-and-white 1953 opus The Neanderthal Man is paired with…
Oldest Drive-In Goes Digital
GDC Technology Limited (“GDC Technology”), a world leading digital cinema solutions provider, is proud to announce that Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre in Pennsylvania, has selected GDC Technology’s SX-2000AR server with Barco’s DP2K-32B projector and Ballantyne Strong for its digital conversion. Shankweiler’s…
The RoboCop Legacy
Let’s look back on the Robocop legacy. RoboCop (1987) With a B-movie premise, a relatively tight budget and a director in Paul Verhoeven who’d never made a movie in Hollywood before, the odds were stacked against the original RoboCop from…
Blob’s Jack Harris Gets His Star
Back in the early ’70s, a 21-year-old came to producer Jack L. Harris with his first feature film, made in 12 days. The novice director had worked on more than 70 movies but this was his own and he put…
Surprising Sequels
There are some movies, be it through their natural storyline or boffo box office, that deserve a sequel. Then there are films that seem to have told a complete story, or not done enough business to make a continuation worthwhile….
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…
Five Quick Questons with Angie Stevenson (Savage)
Angie Stevenson is a strong-willed actress and business woman, she has recently starred in B Movies such as, “Piranhaconda,” “The Family,” “LizardMan: The Terror of the Swamp,” and the comedy “Celebrity Sex Tape.” 2014 will be a big year for…
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…