Wild Angels- Corman Gioes Biker
Roger Corman, the genius of low budget (no budget) exploitation filmmaking, decided to pioneer the 60’s biker genre by making this picture about the Hell’s angels. He spent time with writer Chuck Griffith hanging out with the Hell’s angels, and…
Death of the Action Movie
Hollywood is feeling sorry for itself. This winter, a series of tentpole and more modestly budgeted movies have collapsed at the box office. As the Hollywood Reporter reports, revenue and attendance are both down 15 percent from the same period…
The Arkoff Way
Even before Sam Arkoff had thumbed through the Hollywood trade papers and a faxed report on the weekend box-office results, as is his custom each Monday morning, he was already convinced that one new movie would be a sure-fire flop….
More Corman On Video
During a decade of devastation for the home-entertainment industry, Shout! Factory has not only survived by selling DVDs and Blu-rays, it has thrived. The 60-person Los Angeles-based company has increased its annual revenue and profits by trading on pop culture…
Mr.Sam Raimi
There are two ways of looking at the three-decade career of director Sam Raimi on the occasion of Oz the Great and Powerful, the $325 million movie about a horny carnival wizard played by James Franco and his talking monkey…
Five Quick Questions with Thunder Levin
Thunder Levin is passionate about writing and directing. He’s always conjuring up something new whether it’s a small budget or epic SYFY. Thunder’s movies he wrote or directed or both include zombies, mockbusters, disaster films, and the racing movie “200…
“Chemical Peel” – Arielle Brachfeld
“A bachelorette party turns into a nightmare when the women are trapped in their secluded home while the wilderness around them burns”. A couple of the stars Arielle Brachfeld, and Stephanie Greco have worked together on previous films. Arielle starred…
They Came from El Segundo
Something titled “They Came from El Segundo,” about a radioactive UFO crash site that causes a pack of jack rabbits to go loco and hunt down a group of unsuspecting teens whose van broke down on the side of a…
200mph
Premise The movie focuses on Rick Merchant who starts the movie as another average wannabe boy racer with a modified motor. His life spirals out of control after the death of his brother after which he becomes embroiled in the…
Underwater With Howard Hughes
As a film mogul, Howard Hughes was a great engineer. He was already wealthy when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1925, and only occasionally did his activities in the film industry crimp the financial reach of his empire, as…
Next Resident Evil Movie Given Release Date
The sixth, and presumably last, Resident Evil movie has now been given a release date. While an official announcement has yet to be made with the typical vague PR details meant to hype things up, ShockTilYouDrop is reporting that Sony…
‘It Came!’
One comic book this summer is embracing groovy aliens, British culture and B-movie awesomeness. On Aug. 7, Titan Comics debuts It Came!, a new four-issue miniseries by Dan Boultwood (Hope Falls) that takes the monsters, mayhem and mischief of yesteryear…
Podcast: Valley Girl Q&A With Director Martha Coolidge And Star Deborah Foreman
On this podcast director Martha Coolidge and star Deborah Foreman answer questions about Valley Girl (1983) from host Kevin Smith after a 2011 Lincoln Center screening of the film. You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by…
Five Quick Questions with Alexander Yellen
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) defines cinematography as: A creative and interpretive process that culminates in the authorship of an original work of art rather than the simple recording of a physical event. Cinematography is not a subcategory of…
The Movie Serial
The Golden Era of the film serial was the 1930s through the early 1950s, when kiddie matinees were popular in theaters. Parents would drop their kids off at movie theaters (yes, unattended, if my mom is to be believed), where…
Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932, in New York City to show business parents. His father, Walter Vaughn, was a radio actor, and his mother, Marcella Gaudell Vaughn, a stage actress. They divorced when Vaughn was only…
Richard Lynch
Richard Hugh Lynch (February 12, 1940 – June 19, 2012) was an Irish American actor best known for portraying villains in films and television. His film credits included The Sword and the Sorcerer, Invasion USA, The Seven-Ups, Scarecrow, Little Nikita,…
Cynthia Rothrock
Cynthia Rothrock is an American martial artist and actress who specializes in martial arts films such as Yes, Madam; China O’Brien and Guardian Angel. Rothrock’s ass-kicking ability spans further than the silver screen as she holds five Black Belts in…
Re-Inventing Cinema
As of 2012, around 60% of all cinema screens worldwide have been converted from film to digital projectors. Over half of those digital screens are outfitted with stereoscopic (3D) projectors. By 2015, it is expected that almost every cinema screen…
1981 Scanners
David Cronenberg has been writing, directing, producing, editing, along with other jobs since the sixties and still continues to write and direct. “Scanners” is still high on my list of 80’s movies. We already know the storyline, but here it is….