Escape Re-Boot
Rumors and plans for an Escape From New York reboot have been circling for years, but today it seems like the first steps of a more motivated production are being taken. After the planned remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From…
Post Impact
The 2004 “Post Impact” sounded like an entertaining low budget disaster movie to watch. Unlike most B movies beginning with an immediate disaster, kill or nudity shot we’re given the story and learn about a few characters prior to the…
Five Quick Questions with Cleve Hall
Joe Hollow’s BLOODSTRUCK! Cleve Hall started going to the movies at the age of two, so he was destined to work in the business. Once he saw “Godzilla vs. The Thing” his destiny was sealed. Cleve has had an exciting…
Jack The Boring
One day Nicholas Hoult will be a household name, but “Jack the Giant Slayer” won’t be the movie to catapult him to leading status. Probably the best thing that can be said about Bryan Singer’s take on the centuries-old fairy…
Lincoln Center Honors Pam Grier
At a mini-festival in her honor at New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center March 15-17, Pam Grier greets a fan with “Namaste,” the Hindu recognition of the divine within, and holds her hands in the prayer pose. Yet she…
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…
Mutant Vampire Zombies from the ‘Hood!
“In the wake of a solar flare of unusual properties, a mismatched group of inner-city survivors must put aside their animosity to escape a Los Angeles now free of gang-bangers, but infested instead with blood-sucking zombies.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?[v=G2Pms5ft034] “Mutant Vampire Zombies…
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…
Podcast: Bride Of The Monster and Beast Of The Yellow Night From B-Movie Bargain Bin
On this podcast Mike Murphy and Jon Cross discusses Bride Of The Monster (1955) and Beast Of The Yellow Night (1971). You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by clicking on the play button at the bottom…
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…