Corbucci: The Other Sergio
“If Sergio Leone was the ‘father’ of the Spaghetti Western than Sergio Corbucci was his ‘uncle”. This phrase by a critic sums up very well the distance between those 2 directors who are the most influential of the…
How To Build A Monster
Necessity is the mother of invention, or so they say. It’s probably the motto of a great many film directors who’ve never benefited from a multi-million dollar budget worthy of James Cameron. But mega-money is far from essential in…
Sybil In The Windy City
International sex symbol, B-movie queen and ’80s action hero Sybil Danning will be at the Music Box next weekend for two events. On Friday, Oct. 12, she’ll be around for autographs and Q&A following a screening of the original, uncut 1983 women-in-prison (a…
Internet Craze: Iron Sky
How does this plot sound to you: In 1945, sensing imminent defeat, Nazis secretly sent spacecraft and a few of their finest to the dark side of the moon. In 2018, they come back to exact revenge on Earth….
Play Them Again, Sammy
By Tess Henson It’s late on a Friday night in 1967. I’m a scared five year old sitting on my father’s knee. The room is dark except for the flickering light of an old black & white television….
The Late Night of Joel Goodson: A Reflection on Risky Business
Now when I was a young boy, at the age of five My mother said I was, gonna be the greatest man alive But now I’m a man, way past 21 I had lot’s of fun I’m a man …
Love, Hate and George Lucas
Something was happening, On May 25th, 1977 a movie was released which was sending shockwaves through popular culture. Star Wars, a science fantasy film by American Graffiti wunderkind George Lucas had set the film world on fire. I…
The Killer Beauty:Kelli Maroney
Kelli Maroney plays cute and tough, bad and beautiful better than anyone. In “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” her character intrepidly stands up for school spirit during a rally. In the cult zombie classic “Night of the Comet” she wields…
Troma On Youtube
While most major studios are wading very slowly into the world of online streaming, iconoclastic/disgusting independent studio Troma has dove in head first: they’ve uploaded 150 movies to their YouTube channel, which you can watch for free right now. Is…
Attack Of The Gila Monster
Bill Dever knows precisely why hundreds of people flock to his B Movie Celebrations featuring monsters as oversized as the flicks’ campy fun. “There are a lot of maladjusted people out there,” Dever said with a laugh. Consider the Franklin…
Looper=B Movie
There are two reasons I didn’t like “Looper” very much. The first is how the cast talked about the film. “This is the best acting I have done,” Joseph Gordon Levitt said in an interview at this past summer’s Comic…
Hell Comes To Frogtown
Hell Comes to Frogtown is a 1987 cult film that was created by Donald G. Jackson. The screenplay for this film was written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film was directed by Jackson and R. J. Kizer, and stars…
A Boy And His Dog
A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old society is preserved. The daughter of…
Technicscope
Techniscope or 2-Perf is a 35mm motion picture camera film format introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1963.] The Techniscope format uses a two film-perforation negative pulldown per frame, instead of the standard four-perforation frame usually exposed in 35mm film photography….
Dredd
In an age where every other action film references Sept. 11 or the Occupy movement, “Dredd 3D” is centered squarely in the fears of 1983. An irradiated wasteland. Overpopulation. Society under martial law, where police act as judge, jury and…
Gen X Does Not Like B Movies
“I hate to admit it, but I just don’t get off on movies like Can’t Stop The Music or Krull or The Bee Gees’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band like I used to,’ Erdman told longtime friend Patrick Faulk,…
Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone practically invented a new kind of movie in 1964 with A Fistful of Dollars. While he wasn’t the only maker of the so-called “Spaghetti Western,” he was indisputably its master, as synonymous with the Italian-made shoot ’em up…
MGM For Sale
The current and enduring IPO wave isn’t only for recently minted tech companies. A successor to one of the oldest of the old-line Hollywood studios, MGM Holdings, has filed a preliminary prospectus as a first step in a possible IPO…
The Art Of A Trailer
Evelyn Watters always loved watching the coming attractions before a movie. She works in advertising, so she’s always had respect for the craft, but something about the business bugged her. “There is no credit in the theater, there is no…
Argo
This is one movie that history buffs don’t want to miss. It’s based on true events that occurred during the Iranian revolution of 1979. In this story, now declassified, we find out that there are six Americans trapped inside a…