Update on “Way Down in Chinatown” World Premiere June 15th
Following up on “Way Down in Chinatown,” http://www.bmovienation.com/?p=6960 the world premiere is the midnight show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 15th. Since reviewing “W.D.i.C” here, the film has generated plenty of publicity and whether you love or hate…
80th Anniversary of The Drive-In
June 6, 1933 marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in movie theater in Camden, New Jersey. The facility was the brain child of Richard M. Hollingshead, an avid film buff and theatergoer, who invented the concept…
Rabid Love Hits The Big Screen
We live in a world in which the next generation will never understand or get the concept of free love. In the Sixties and Seventies you could hump freely with pregnancy and minor STD’s being your only worry. It’s amazing…
Killing Games in Pre-Production
“Hollywood, California. September 2012. 17 dead. 1 survivor. Footage extracted from the massacre in the Hollywood Hills. The estates exclusive. High profile industry residents. The tapes filed away at the LAPD. Cold case files. Under strict security clearance – until…
Avatar Part Deux
It has long been rumored that the upcoming sequels for James Cameron’s Avatar would be filmed consecutively, much like The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix sequels. Speaking on “The Jonathan Ross Show” (via Digital Spy) actress Zoe Saldana…
The Life and Times of Anna Nicole Smith
Lifetime—the network that has an inherent, unmatched understanding of modern camp—is releasing The Anna Nicole Story as its next original movie, directed by feminist filmmaker Mary Harron, and starring Agnus Bruckner as Anna Nicole Smith, Adam Goldberg as Howard K….
World War War Z
Zombies are on the rampage in World War Z, but the B-movie premise becomes an epic story of survival in the hands of director Marc Foster. If his Quantum of Solace was too esoteric, then it’s the opposite here, as…
Big Bad Pia
B-movie actress Pia Zadora was arrested this weekend on charges related to domestic violence. According to an Associated Press report, Zadora was arrested on Saturday morning for suspicion of domestic battery and coercion. Police had been called to her Las…
The Kiss Of The Vampire
Kiss Of The Vampire was the second and last Hammer vampire film made before Christopher Lee agreed to don the fangs once more. It’s a shame he didn’t come back for this one because one of the very few weak…
They Live
They Live is based on a pulp sci-fi story about aliens who live among us and manipulate us through subliminal advertising, other mind control techniques, and sometimes, guns and bulldozers. Like most Carpenter films, its artistic, fun, intelligent and does…
Cirio H. Santiago
Cirio H. Santiago was a prolific Filipino film producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He also uses the screen names: Cirio Santiago and Leonard Hermes.Santiago was born on January 18, 1936 in Manila, Philippines to Dr. Ciriaco Santiago, the founder of…
Fast 6 Not Action?
It may not be that obvious, but “Fast & Furious 6,” the latest in an unlikely franchise that began in 2001, is not really an action movie. Sure, it has car chases, car flips, car crashes and mixed martial arts…
Five Quick Questions with Christopher R. Mihm – The Giant Spider
Back in 2006 Christopher R. Mihm started making classic 50’s era B-movies homage films. The fan base for his films grew rapidly and after several films the fans came up with the term “Mihmiverse.” He is a lifelong Midwesterner and…
Creepozoids
Set in the future of 1998, six years after a nuclear apocalypse that left Earth a ‘blackened husk of a planet’, a group of army deserters seeks refuge in an abandoned former military base. But it’s not long before the…
Corman’s Hidden Cost
Launched in early May, YouTube’s paid subscription channels offer studios a low-cost way to monetize recycled content. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, one federal equal access law is tripping up content producers with a hidden cost. Signed into law…
Corman’s Drive-In
Now that YouTube’s just announced its first 30 partners for subscription-based programming, a Hollywood B-movie legend is opening up his own paid subscription YouTube channel that will feature 400-plus of his classic films including “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Death…
Rabid
David Cronenberg’s second major movie can be viewed as a kind of sequel to “Shivers,” which, in more ways than one, deals with similar themes and issues as that of the aforementioned movie. Whilst Cronenberg showed originality and a genuine…
Machete Kills Trailer
Stop what you’re doing and watch the trailer for Machete Kills right now. Sure, it’s in Spanish, but no one cares about the dialogue anyway. The cast alone makes this movie a must-see. The sequel to Danny Trejo’s cult B-movie…
The Best Bad Movie of the Summer: Fast and Furious 6
Is there another franchise that’s pulled off as impressive a reversal as The Fast and the Furious? Besides a healthy return on a modest budget, there was little exceptional about the 2001 original, and even less to a string of…
Jared Cohn and Atlantic Rim
When the floor of the Atlantic Ocean rips open, flooding the East Coast with giant monsters, Academy Award nominee Graham Greene recruits ex-“Baywatch” lifeguard David Chokachi to join Naughty by Nature’s Anthony “Treach” Criss and 100 Ghost Street: The Return…