Dolph Lundgren, Robots, Zombies: Do you really need more?
Suck it, Sharknado! We thought you had brought together the greatest confluence of B-movie cliches known to man. Well, you lose to this Battle of the Damned trailer. And, as a bonus, it is not too shabby looking.We are in…
Ian Ziering” Taking On ‘Sharknado’
The SyFy original “Sharknado” may never make anyone’s Top 100 list of great movies, but no one can deny the B movie was one of the more entertaining pieces of 2013. For Ian Ziering, who starred in the film about…
The Dark Crimes Of Anthony Mann
The career of American filmmaker Anthony Mann (1906-1967) lasted from the early 1940s to the late 1960s. To a certain degree, his overall trajectory mirrored that of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole: he began with crime dramas and film noir…
The Wild Man Of Louisville: William Girdler
When one thinks of regional filmmakers, the name of William Girdler stands high indeed. Based out of Louisville, Kentucky for most of his career, Girdler made nine films between the years 1972 and 1978, in a variety of genres from…
A Look Back At Don Dohler
Don Dohler’s admittedly cheap’n’clunky low-budget independent horror and science fiction pictures will probably never be acknowledged as true works of cinematic art, but his films still nonetheless possess a certain raw energy and infectious feeling of pure go-for-it Do-It-Yourself enthusiasm…
The Call
Too many critics and pundits were too busy making fun of Halle Berry’s hair instead of noticing how tight and compelling her newest movie was. The picture has a corker of a premise, with Berry playing a 9-1-1 operator who…
Ho Ho Horror
Santa’s coming for some of you depending on your personal beliefs and so is the holiday season and that means its time for you to sit down and enjoy some holiday cheer and mayhem. Whether you celebrate the holiday or…
Billy Jack Passes
Tom Laughlin, the maverick actor and filmmaker best known for the “Billy Jack” films, has died. He was 82. Laughlin died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, his family announced. Laughlin had been married to actress Delores Taylor since 1954 and also…
King of the monsters
We’ve had demons, vampires, werewolves, aliens, shapeshifters, cyborgs, zombies, even an oversized monkey called Kong. But none has proved more enduring or malleable or fascinating to filmmakers and audiences alike than the one monster that did actually exist: the dinosaur….
Audrey Totter, femme fatale actress of film noir, dies at 95
Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood’s film noir period of the 1940s and ‘50s, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Woodland Hills,…
Spoofing Sharknado
In your daily dose of cringe media the Atlanta Hawks have attempted to bring their team to a viral level by having their cheerleading squad star in a video spoof of the B-Movie, “Sharknado”. “Sharknado” is about a bunch of…
When Shaft Ruled Hollywood
With the release of The Butler, Fruitvale Station, 12 Years a Slave and The Best Man Holiday, 2013 has been proclaimed a banner year for Black films as well as filmmakers of color. Indeed, while these cinematic feats are being…
Susan Hart, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Susan Hart (born June 2, 1941 in Wenatchee, Washington) is an American actress, and the widow of American International Pictures (AIP) co-founder James H. Nicholson. She is best known for her appearances in three popular AIP films of the 1960s,…
Look Back At Ed Wood
Anyone off the street, after spending years hearing him being labeled as the worst director of all time by the press, would falsely describe Edward D. Wood Jr’s life as something along the lines of “notorious.” The real story of…
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Poster Reveal
20th Century Fox has released the first posters for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Details on the plot are still scarce, but we know that it will continue building to the original 1968 film, there will be more…
Sharknado Sequel Underway
Sharknado became a pop culture phenomenon earlier this year and went on to become one of the most successful SyFy channel original films ever. The film has garnered enough attention and popularity to warrant a Sharknado sequel, which will be…
Francio Nero On Django
ranco Nero had no inkling that when he started filming the original Django movie nearly 50 years ago that he’d be making history. There was no real script, the budget was at first big enough to finance only a single…
Christopher Young: Composer
One of the foremost talents in film music today, Golden Globe-nominated composer Christopher Young has scored an impressive number of features in virtually every genre, all with strikingly original music. The spine-tingling “Hellraiser” showcases the composer’s seminal upbringing in horror;…
The First B Movie Superstar: Elmo Lincoln
Elmo Lincoln was an American film actor. Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first person to star as Tarzan (as an adult) (Gordon Griffith played him as a child…
Cyborg Cop
The first time I saw Cyborg Cop (also known as Cyborg Soldier) was back in the early 1990’s on HBO as part of the channel’s old Thursday Night Prime series, which saw a new low budget genre movie debut every…