Coffy
Pam Grier made many movies in the 1970s, but ‘Coffy’ as much as anything, is the one role on which her reputation as the Queen of blaxploitation rests. After a bit part in a Russ Meyer movie (his classic ‘Beyond…
Fast & Furious 6
There’s an amusing disclaimer in the credits for Fast & Furious 6, along the lines that the stunts in the film are dangerous and shouldn’t be tried at home. Even the most fanatical petrol-head might struggle to recreate the bit…
Shark Hunter
I really love bad movies. The lower the budget and more ridiculous premise the better. If you throw in some awful acting and bad special effects (and those are just a given) then you have the icing on a really…
Arnold In Toxie
What’s weirder, that the former Governor of California might appear in “The Toxic Avenger,” or that there’s a 21st Century remake of the freaky underground favorite in the works? The original “Toxic Avenger” was a low-budget, gross-out comedy about a…
Konga
Dr. Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. During…
An Interview With Frank Henenlotter
“The New York I grew up in and love doesn’t exist anymore,” says Frank Henelotter, cult icon of exploitation cinema, director of Basket Case and Brain Damage, and in Edinburgh as guest of honour at this year’s Dead By Dawn…
Warhol’s Mead Passes
The previous year Warhol had arrived in Hollywood with Mead, staying for two weeks at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Warhol used his new silent 16mm Bolex movie camera to shoot his first partially scripted feature, Tarzan and Jane Regained……
Horror fans come out for B-movie
VHS horror fans got their gore on at the Sherman Theater on Saturday. Anyone who still owns a video cassette player could have had a thrill looking through some of the dusty copies of mainstream movies, but most of the…
A Look At The Lfe Of Ray Harryhausen
Earlier today we learned of the death of Ray Harryhausen, the special-visual-effects specialist whose name practically became a synonym for the art of stop-motion animation. As a young man, Harryhausen was inspired by the work of Hollywood animation pioneer Willis…
B Movie Theatre
Three-headed dinosaurs. Slime creatures from another planet. Time-travelling scientists. All of the above figure in Ramshackle Theatre’s Sci-Fi Double Feature, and if it sounds like the stuff of long-ago drive-in movies, that’s the point. Calling from a break during technical…
Bollywood Zombies
The cliche about waiting a long time for a bus to come and then three arriving all at once also applies to Bollywood zombie movies, it seems. The Saif Ali Khan-starrer Go Goa Gone opens on Thursday, the same day…
Rise Of The Zombies
The Machete star Danny Trejo stars in a horror about a group of zombie apocalypse survivors taking refuge in Alcatraz prison, fighting for survival when the undead discover them. Taking inspiration from the TV show The Walking Dead, the film…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Begins Shooting
Twentieth Century Fox announced that principal photography is underway on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed…
Google Honors Saul Bass
Saul Bass celebration animates Google’s name in several different styles, playing on the designer’s best-known credit sequences. Google has marked the birthday of Saul Bass with one of the search engine’s most elaborate “doodles” yet – an animated sequence based…
Ray Harryhausen Rest in Peace
Stop motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen died in London today, May 7th. Harryhausen was born in June 1920, and developed an interest in stop motion animation after seeing the 1933 version of King Kong. According to the obituary released by the…
Ressurecting AIP?
A trio of Hollywood veterans are teaming up to reinvent 1950s B-movies from the American International Pictures library. Producer Lou Arkoff, writer-producer Jeff Katz and ICM alum Hal Sadoff have joined forces on the venture, which will reimagine the AIP…
A disastrous summer ahead for the movies
Enjoy the summer movie season like it’s your last. Hollywood is doubling down on one of its most durable themes this year: doomsday. Apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic and dystopian futures will be busting out all over multiplexes like never before. Already in…
RobotMonkeyArm
RobotMonkeyArm is a multimedia project of the mind. A series of imaginary films, comic books, and novels all represented only through the music that creator Ryan Baker has written, it’s a cinematic mix of surf rock, Italian Western, and B-movie…
White House Down
Yes, the White House already got overrun by terrorists in movie theaters in 2013. You’re seeing double. Releasing dueling movies like “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” or “Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp” (or even “Volcano” and “Dante’s Peak,” for good measure) make…
Dead Man Down
The original Swedish film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was no masterpiece, but it turned Noomi Rapace into an international star, and it gave its director, Niels Arden Oplev, the pick of every screenplay in Hollywood for his…