How To Stuff A Wild Bikini
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the “Beach Party” movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be…
Rocky O’Brien
FOR decades the Rocky Horror Show has had audiences dressing up in basques and throwing toast at the cast. As the musical hits Scotland, creator Richard O’Brien and star Rhydian Roberts ponder its appeal. Forty years ago, in 1973, the…
Launch of The B Movie Nation Summer Movie Tour
One of the things we are particularly and painfully aware of is the lack of screen time for pure genre or B cinema. Nothing beats sitting in a darkened theatre with images of fantasy, pulpitude, and fun projected on a…
Galaxina
Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the blue star. Sub Plots: The ships female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as as the captain gives birth to an alien…
Chained Heat
Arriving at a new prison, Carol Henderson, (Linda Blair) finds that the other inmates coming in with her, Val, (Sharon Hughes) Bubbles, (Louisa Moritz) and Blue Eyes, (Jody Medford) are out to protect her from Ericka, (Sybil Danning) Bobbi, (Dee…
Snitch
Writer/director Ric Roman Waugh and writer Justin Haythe’s Snitch (trailer) operates on two levels. On one hand, it’s a pulpy and satisfying B-movie, a distinctly old-fashioned studio programmer about a normal man thrust into an abnormal situation. The film is…
Ode To Sci-Fi Marathons
Boston is the unofficial home of marathons. We host that big marathon in April that shuts down a good portion of the Hub so hundreds of runners can have the roads to themselves. But in the middle of snow season,…
From Head Trip To Unhinged
John doesn’t die at the end of “John Dies at the End,” although maybe he dies in the middle and possibly more than once. That’s not a spoiler so much as a consumer advisory: This loopy slacker horror farce is…
Noir Rock
Large, in charge and nobody’s little Margie: Dwayne Johnson takes on the drug kingpins in “Snitch.” Place your bets! Whatever. This one actually works. “Snitch” is shrewd in its balancing of our sympathies. Set in Missouri but shot in Shreveport,…
Damnation Alley
A stogie-chewing George Peppard heads a team that welds together an armored vehicle out of spare parts, taking satisfaction when a plan comes together…. Jan-Michael Vincent mans an AWOL missile-firing government vehicle copiloted by a cranky white-haired guy…. Capsule descriptions…
The Searchers
A modest hit in theaters in 1956, “The Searchers” has grown in stature to become, for many, the greatest Western filmed and one of the most influential movies. Yet it’s always been more, thematically and culturally, than just a John…
Podcast: Buckaroo Banzai Q&A With Peter Weller And John Lithgow
On this podcast Peter Weller and John Lithgow answer questions about The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984) from host Kevin Smith after a 2011 Lincoln Center screening of the film. You can listen to (aka stream)…
Fright Night
Fright Night really deserves 10 out of 10 because I have rarely seen a film as delightfully entertaining as this. Of all the vampire films to have been released in the 1980’s, this one remains the most fun. Admittedly, The…
Humanoids From The Deep
Check this out for a storyline: hideous fish-men rise from the ocean depths in order to mate with human females and thus speed up their rapid evolution (which has already been kick-started by them eating genetically mutated salmon). Now if…
The Zombie Invasion Of Canada
Canadians can sleep safely tonight knowing that a zombie invasion of Canada will not be tolerated by the ruling Conservative Party of Stephen Harper. In a case of life imitating art, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is assuring the House…
A Real Night Of The Lepus
It was like a weird scene out of a horror movie, maybe the 1972 B-movie “Night of the Lepus” that features giant rabbits on a rampage. Except the bunnies are regular sized, and the news is strange but true. Bunnies…
On The Road With Bruce Campbell
B-movie star Bruce Campbell is bringing a little fear to Hastings Saturday — but in a lighthearted way. Campbell, star of “The Evil Dead” trilogy of the 1980s and the current television series “Burn Notice,” will speak on the Hastings…
Cult Movie Network
In May 2003, Dieter Kohler was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called The Cult Movie Channel, described as being “devoted to exploring the world of cult film and television.”ch as…
Video On Demand Is The Future
The global video on demand market has been forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.8% over the period to 2015. Video on Demand (VOD) or Audio and Video on Demand (AVOD) are systems which allow…
Savage Steve Goes Big With Anchor Bay
Steve Austin’s acting career continues to go from strength to strength, with the star having just finalized a new deal with Anchor Bay Films. Movie news site Deadline exclusively reports that Austin, and his film company, Broken Skull Ranch Productions,…