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…
Upcoming “Way Down in Chinatown”
“A playwright and his director wife are trying to produce a great play, while the world around them is slowly ending.” The movie’s acting, settings, and effects give the audience a sense of being at an actual play. When we…
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…
The Amazing Adventures Of Victoria Clarke
s movie studios tighten their grip on development, Hollywood producers must search for creative ways to bring their ideas to life, and many see internet crowdfunding as the future of independent story development. Film and Video projects are the most…
Steven Kostanski Builds A Better Manborg
Manborg is, simply speaking, one of the most bonkers cult flicks to come along in years. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a soldier is killed in battle with the evil Count Draculon and his hordes of Hell. He is then reborn…
Five Quick Questions with Paul Bunnell “The Ghastly Love of Johnny X”
It took a decade, but writer, director Paul Bunnell‘s patience and perseverance paid off. The outcome is an over the top, hilarious, goofy, entertaining, sci-fi, comedy, musical genre film. Paul was very determined and made it through all the obstacles to…
Barbarella
Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for V-Magazine in 1962, at the request of its editor, Georges H. Gallet, who was already familiar with Forest’s work as France’s premier science fiction cover artist and had commissioned an illustrated version…
Ray Dennis Steckler: American Auteur
There was Ray Dennis Steckler. He said in an interview that the reason he didn’t use completed scripts for his movies was that if you had a script, you had to find locations to match the script, you had to…
B Movie Games
I make it a habit to stay away from Bad Games, but this week is an exception. I’ve got three strong picks of the “so bad, it’s good” variety. Brace yourselves! Enlarge “Mars: War Logs” (PC, coming to 360 and…
Streamageddon
They say that you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. While this may be cold comfort to the thousands of Netflix customers who have recently been informed that they will no longer have access to their personally-designed…
Grabbing Attention Fred Olen Ray
Since moving to Hollywood from Florida in 1981 with less than $1,000, Ray has been nothing if not prolific, directing 30 features, not including the dozen or so films he produced (including “Step Monster” for Roger Corman and the upcoming…
Transylvania Twist
Transylvania Twist is a 1989 comedy film that parodies horror movies. Originally released by Concorde Pictures, this film is distributed on home video by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the film Angus Scrimm reprises his role of the “Tall Man” from the Phantasm…
Hamesima X
Its video incarnation eventually destined to become a stocking stuffer for those on Madonna’s Christmas gift list, the Israeli feature Hamesima X is a loopy sci-fi exercise that uses the teachings of the Kabbalah as a springboard for a metaphysical…