Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove Only On Netflix
You gotta hand it to Netflix — their major foray into original programming is leaving no stone unturned. Last month we got the political drama “House Of Cards,” and later this spring the Bluths return in the long-awaited “Arrested Development,”…
Big Ass Spider
Big Ass Spider! Now there’s a title for you. Any film with an exclamation point obviously means business. This is not a name, Big Ass Spider! tells you, it’s a call to action. We are not merely discussing a “big…
In Techniscope
Techniscope was a development of the Technicolor Corporation. The purpose of the system was to provide the most economical use of the camera negative. In the 1.85:1 spherical wide screen system about 33% of the available negative is wasted because…
Hammer Glamour: A Glorious Tribute to the Queens of Hammer Horror
Celebrate the sexy sirens and distressed damsels of a cinematic institution, in the lavish new coffee table tome from Titan, HAMMER GLAMOUR [25 September 2009, £24.99]! Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher…
Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson was born on March 5th, 1938 in Gary, Indiana and prior to his acting career, he was a professional football player. He played for the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburg Steelers, San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. After…
Car Wash
Promoted as a Richard Pryor/George Carlin movie, the film only features those two big names as cameos. Pryor plays gold-dripping preacher Daddy Rich, but the part was given to him only after the character’s real-life inspiration, televangelist Reverend Ike, turned…
In Honor Of Ms.Grier
Pam Grier is one bad mamma jamma. Once the queen of Blaxploitation classics like Foxy Brown and Coffey, Grier, 63, now spends her days riding and rehabilitating horses on her ranch in rural Denver, Colorado. She’s a woman who’s played…
Leprechaun
Ten years ago, an evil leprechaun (Warwick Davis) lives, protecting his ill-gotten cold collection. Today, Dan O’Grady, (Shay Duffin) after finding what he believes are magical gold coins, steals the gold and returns back home, followed by the leprechaun. Ten…
Red Dawn, Blech
It seems that Hollywood’s glut of remaking classic movies is over. They’re now deigning to tackle movies that weren’t very good in the first place, as John Milius’ propaganda cheese-fest Red Dawn gets the makeover treatment this week. Filmed around…
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: B Movie Theatre
It would take a cultural philosopher to adequately explain why zombies have so profoundly resonated with audiences at this historical moment. One does not, however, need to be a Gilles Deleuze to understand its baroque potential for satire. Which is…
Tokyo Drifter
The B movie. Using its early definition, a B movie is a film intended to be on the bottom half of a double feature, the first film being the main attraction. The cinematic equivalent of filler, a B movie was…
Cinedelphia Celebrates Philly With Crazy Ambitious April Fest
The Cinedelphia Film Festival, up and running April 4-27 in venues all over town, promises a remarkable celebration of the city’s film traditions, its stars and cult gods, its B-movie roots, its movers and shakers – and its music makers,…
Sweet Sounds Of A Chainsaw
Alexandra Daddario is Heather, a young woman who suddenly discovers that she had been adopted and that she has an inheritance from her grandmother. The inheritance is a huge mansion in Texas. This is set in a town that is…
Wild Angels- Corman Gioes Biker
Roger Corman, the genius of low budget (no budget) exploitation filmmaking, decided to pioneer the 60’s biker genre by making this picture about the Hell’s angels. He spent time with writer Chuck Griffith hanging out with the Hell’s angels, and…
Death of the Action Movie
Hollywood is feeling sorry for itself. This winter, a series of tentpole and more modestly budgeted movies have collapsed at the box office. As the Hollywood Reporter reports, revenue and attendance are both down 15 percent from the same period…
The Arkoff Way
Even before Sam Arkoff had thumbed through the Hollywood trade papers and a faxed report on the weekend box-office results, as is his custom each Monday morning, he was already convinced that one new movie would be a sure-fire flop….
More Corman On Video
During a decade of devastation for the home-entertainment industry, Shout! Factory has not only survived by selling DVDs and Blu-rays, it has thrived. The 60-person Los Angeles-based company has increased its annual revenue and profits by trading on pop culture…
Mr.Sam Raimi
There are two ways of looking at the three-decade career of director Sam Raimi on the occasion of Oz the Great and Powerful, the $325 million movie about a horny carnival wizard played by James Franco and his talking monkey…
They Came from El Segundo
Something titled “They Came from El Segundo,” about a radioactive UFO crash site that causes a pack of jack rabbits to go loco and hunt down a group of unsuspecting teens whose van broke down on the side of a…
200mph
Premise The movie focuses on Rick Merchant who starts the movie as another average wannabe boy racer with a modified motor. His life spirals out of control after the death of his brother after which he becomes embroiled in the…