Fire Maidens of Outer Space
In the realm of camp sci-fi cinema, the lowest cull line seems to be movies that are so bad they’re, well, not good but at least kicky fun to watch. In that category squarely falls “Fire Maidens of Outer Space”…
Corman’s Top Ten
A genuine American movie legend, the eighty-seven-year-old producer and director Roger Corman has been in the film business since the early 1950s. He is perhaps best known for the low-budget horror films he issued with remarkable speed in the early…
Catherine Mary Stewart
Born and raised in Edmonton, Canada, Catherine Mary Stewart got her start studying dance at age seven. She toured through Canada, the Middle East and Germany with the Synergy Dance Company throughout high school, and moved to London to study…
Motel Hell
The distinctive taste of Farmer Vincent’s (Rory Calhoun) prime meats is renowned in the farmer’s rural area. In fact people come from far and wide to sample his uniquely delicious meat treats. The only real question is why is there…
Tombs of the Blind Dead
I write best when I write about what is on my mind. I write about geek culture because geek concepts are always scurrying around in the back of my head. There are other topics too, but this is the most…
THE RETURN OF THE B MOVIE
Summer movie-going is usually about the stars, the spectacle and the sizzle. But in a trend that’s mystifying Hollywood, this summer’s box office is being driven by films with modest ambitions, including relatively inexpensive comedies, lower-budget animation and horror pictures….
Chuck Jones
In a career spanning over 60 years, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning three Oscars as director and in 1996 an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Among the many awards and recognitions, one of those most valued was…
B’s Creates Shockwave
Summer moviegoing is usually about the stars, the spectacle and the sizzle. But in a trend that’s mystifying Hollywood, this summer’s box office is being driven by films with modest ambitions, including relatively inexpensive comedies, lower budget animation and horror…
Quatermass And The Pit/Five Million Years To Earth
Without a doubt, this is true science-fiction at its best. Kneale’s brilliant script (based on his acclaimed 50’s BBC serial) proposes a truly staggering premise. The human race was actually genetically altered by martians about five million years ago, the…
Capricorn One
This is a gem of a thriller from the late 70’s that has conspiracy over tones right the way through. It was very contemporary for it’s time with a fine cast that could easily have been a whose-who guide of…
7 Faces of Dr.Lao
“This is the Circus of Dr. Lao. We show you things that you don’t know. Oh, we spare no pains and we spare no dough, but we’re going to give you one helluva show!” And the Good Doctor certainly did,…
Big Screen Sharknado
Sharknado,” the SyFy channel B-movie-turned-social-media-sensation, is coming to a big screen near you. On Aug. 2, theaters in Huntsville and Birmingham will host midnight screenings of the film in which sharks are sucked into the sky by water spouts and…
Roger Corman-Produced Chinese Horror Movie Debuts
With the Chinese government’s strict prohibition of the depiction of paranormal activities on screen to prevent audiences from being exposed to what they see as archaic forms of superstition, the country has never made much of a contribution to the…
‘The Man With the Iron Fists’
It’s no secret that producer/rapper RZA — nee Robert Fitzgerald Diggs — is a big fan of vintage chop-socky films; his group Wu-Tang Clan lifted its name from one such flick. RZA has worked steadily at crossing over into cinema,…
Warner Archive Restores ‘B’ Movies
The latest category of content the Warner Archive Collection has been working to restore and release is the ‘B’ movie genre. Speaking about the movies fans love to hate July 19 at San Diego Comic-Con International were Warner Archive Collection…
The Summer Of The B’s
Summer moviegoing is usually about the stars, the spectacle and the sizzle. But in a trend that’s mystifying Hollywood, this summer’s box office is being driven by films with modest ambitions, including relatively inexpensive comedies, lower budget animation and horror…
Joi Lansing
Crowned by the press as “TV’s Marilyn Monroe,” model, singer, film and television actress Joi Lansing was born April 6, 1929 (as Joyce Brown) in Salt Lake City, Utah to Virginia Grace (née Shupe) Brown, a housewife, and Jack Glenn…
B-grade Sharknado Teaches Hollywood A Cruel Lesson
Hollywood: she’s a fickle mistress. As the accountants at the Disney studio count their losses on The Lone Ranger, a big-ticket film with a budget of US$200 million which landed with a thud, across down a cheesy, cheap piece of…
Wolverine Delivers
It’s a weird time we live in when I can describe a film as “cheap” because it “only” cost around $100 million to produce. But such is the case with this smaller-scale X-Men spin-off. As such, while there is little…
Irene Ryan-Genius
Ryan was born Irene Eileen Noblett in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of James Merritt Noblett and Catherine “Katie” McSharry. Her father was from North Carolina and her mother was a native of Ireland. She had one sister, Anna, who…