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…
Three Bullets for a Long Gun
Several people have called this a spaghetti western, even if it’s a South-African production, shot on South-African locations. It clearly rips off Sergio Leone’s dollar movies and offers a few winks at Corbucci and Peckinpah as well. The tone is…
Day Of The Dead Soundtrack
Even when outright horror movies had humor in them, composers would mostly play the often gory action straight. While DAY OF THE DEAD might amiably shamble amongst George Romero’s original trilogy, it’s John Harrison’s score that stands as the most…
John Saxon
John Saxon has appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited bit parts in It…
Natasha Henstridge
Natasha Henstridge was born on August 15, 1974 in Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada. Known for movies like Species (1995) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000), she started her career as a model in Paris, France at the tender age of 15….
The Hungover Games
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has secured all media rights to the comedy, The Hungover Games, acquired from producers Ash R. Shah and Ben Feingold. The Hungover Games is a parody of contemporary films including The Hangover and The Hunger…
American Scream
Down to the Morgan Library I bat-flew one afternoon to pay homage to Edgar Allan Poe, the martyred saint of literary hacks, tattered soul of Baltimore, and interior decorator of the funeral parlor of American Goth, rich in velvet drapings…
Big Ass Spider
When you walk into a film titled Big Ass Spider, you should simultaneously know what to expect – yet have no idea what kind of insanity awaits. B-Movies are often hit and miss because replicating unintentional comedy proves to be…
Cherry 2000
“Cherry 2000” is a sort of post-apocalyptic science fiction Western, a cross between “Mad Max” and “The Stepford Wives”. The year is 2017, thirty years in the future when the film was made in 1987. Following some unspecified apocalypse America…
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone reprise their roles as Alan Quatermain and Jesse Huston in “KING SOLOMON’S MINES”. This time around, the quest is on to seek out a ‘Utopian’ society that has only been talked about, but never seen,…
Johnny Yuma
This is one of the three spaghetti westerns directed by Romolo Guerrieri, whose real family name was Girolami: he was Enzo G. Castellari (G = Girolami). As a director, he is best known for his final spaghetti western, 10,000 Dollars…
The Thing (1982)
Looking back on John Carpenter’s The Thing – today a highly treasured cult favourite – one has to wonder why it was dismissed by both the audience and critics when it first came out in 1982. Steven Spielberg’s extra terrestrial…