Escape From LA
What John Carpenter got wrong: Los Angeles becoming a prison island. What he got right: Someone in our day and age might well be tempted to shut off all the world’s electricity. We’re catching up with older visions of the…
B movies Create Interactive Experience
Nobody likes it when people talk at theaters, during a movie.Well, talking is definitely encouraged when the movie in question is the 1959 science fiction potboiler “The Wasp Woman,” and the theater is located in the basement of the South…
Swamp Thing Rises
The year 1982 was not exactly a banner year for comic book movies, with the only true successes in recent memory being Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). It was also something of a time of limbo and moment of…
Sharktopus Versus Mermantula
The folks behind the cult SyFy flick Sharknado have no idea what they’ve started. According to reports, Sharktopus Versus Mermantula is actually coming together somewhere in Hollywood. Before the world learned what would happen if sharks somehow found their way…
10 Movies to Check Out During Shark Week
It’s here. Like the unstoppable turn of the cosmos, Shark Week is upon us once more. It’s a time to reflect, to forget our troubles, come together, and gleefully freak out about sharks like a bunch of 3-year-olds at SeaWorld…
B-Movie Bingo
FILM—The B-Movie Bingo series puts not-so-classic films on the big screen, then gives audience members a custom-made bingo card of movie clichés! Check off the clichés, win prizes, and remember what it feels like to live, because tonight’s film is…
Blobfest
BlobFest was held Saturday, July 13, at 11 a.m. with the StreetFair, featuring music by DJ Hot Rod Scott and Professor Couch of The Roots Rockabilly Roadhouse show on WPRB 103.3 FM. At noon the Fire Extinguisher Parade takes place…
Machete Kills Trailer Released
An A-list cast has assembled for this ultimate B-movie, with a first foray into the acting game for Lady Gaga generating some excitement. Expect Machete to receive plenty of female attention, from the returning Jessica Alba, as well as newcomers…
TV Film ‘Sharknado’ Inches To B-Movie Cult Status
Three weeks after its premiere, ‘Sharknado’ is still raining down great whites and hammerheads for the US cable television network Syfy — and even splashing them across movie screens. The campy, low-budget TV disaster movie about a hurricane that unleashes…
Peter Capaldi: The Next Doctor Who
The Scottish actor was named the new star of the British sci-fi franchise Doctor Who on Sunday during a live broadcast on BBC America. He will replace the departing Matt Smith, whose time in the time-traveling police box the TARDIS…
Death Ship
But then what did you expect? The start of the film after the opening credits is set on a large cruise ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean. In this sequence we are introduced to our main cast of…
Shivers
For me, the best of Cronenberg’s earlier works is an exercise in claustrophobic tension building, wrapped in a concept of pure exploitation, and all further used as an excuse for a wicked Buñuelian-like satire on the woes of contemporary consumer…
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Who made it: Directed by Jack Arnold. With Grant Williams. Audience appeal: 10 and up. Once upon a time: When he powers his motorboat through a strange, sparkly mist Scott Carey doesn’t think much of…
Cult Status For Sharknado
Three weeks after its premiere, “Sharknado” is still raining down great whites and hammerheads for the U.S. cable television network Syfy – and even splashing them across movie screens. The campy, low-budget TV disaster movie about a hurricane that unleashes…
The Rise And Fall Of Cannon
These two graying Israelis did, however, have enough expertise on the topics to create and produce seven ninja movies, as well as Breakin’, Rappin’, Salsa, Lambada, and The Forbidden Dance, all in a remarkably productive period between 1980 and 1990….
Sharknado At Midnight
So, who’s up for dodging giant shark-slinging tornadoes at midnight? Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a … shark! A super-sized storm sucks sharks from the ocean and hurls them onto land in the…
The Monster of Piedras Blancas
The SLO County on the Silver Screen series has been announced and it includes the B-movie filmed on the North Coast, The Monster of “Piedras Blancas.” It will show on November 23, 2013 in Cayucos, one of the movie’s locations….
Sci-Fi Series Helps People Escape Into Silly Fiction
Giant ants, swamp creatures and mutant dinosaurs, oh my! The Skaneateles Library’s Attack of the B Movie series is bringing four science fiction flicks to its upstairs room each Tuesday in August. Each movie starts at 7 p.m. The series’…
The Lost Empire Rises Large
In 1983, a young director stepped behind the camera for the first time and began to shoot a film which he thought might be both his first and his last. An ardent fan of “B” cinema, Jim Wynorski decided to…
Tara Reid denied role in “Sharknado 2
Tara Reid will not be returning for the sequel to the B-movie hit, Snarknado . TMZ reported that producers of the sequel met in New York City to decide the direction of the film, and decided that the only cast…