Bruce Campbell in Milwaukee
Bruce Campbell is bringing an army to the Pabst Theater on Saturday night. Actually, the actor – seen lately in supporting roles on the NBC sitcom “1600 Penn” and the USA drama “Burn Notice” – is bringing “Army of Darkness,”…
Dredd In China
British 3D sci-fi action movie “Dredd”, directed by Pete Travis, premiered in China on Thursday, hoping to win Chinese hearts. The film is written and produced by Alex Garland and is based on the British comic “2000 AD” comic strip…
Charlie Zone
Halifax has seldom looked scummier onscreen than it does in Charlie Zone, a low-budget thriller that presents the Nova Scotia capital as a dingy string of motels and run-down houses for a ragged population of crooks, junkies and liars. The…
Phantom
In sports and the military, “professionalism” describes people who go about their work with a calm, dispassionate efficiency — no fuss, no panic when things go wrong, few mistakes, little attention paid to the odds, the chance for glory. You…
Night Of The Comet, A Forgotten Flix Podcast
Thom Eberhardt’s “Night Of The Comet” is a film whose reputation is due for a serious rehabilitation. Generally–and wrongly–categorized with typical 80s teen horror films, “Comet” is in fact a smart, skillful parody of the low-budget sci-fi horror classics of…
The Magic Of The Luchador
He takes to the center of the ring. The people cheer. He wears a bright silver mask, which exposes only his eyes, nose, and lips. He wears a cape and tight pants. His physique is swollen and glorious. He is…
Jim Wynorski’s Lost Empire
This one must have been created by the exploitation gods (actually it was created by Jim Wynorski, but that’s as close as we come these days). It’s got it all: a plot stolen from ENTER THE DRAGON, violence, ninjas, breasts,…
The Eh List
A WHEEZING PERVERT makes obscene phone calls to a sorority house. Michael Ironside stews in a bachelor pad, writing angry letters to a feminist talk show host. Five horny students at T & A High make a pact to see…
500 MPH STORM
Released today is “500 MPH Storm” This is Daniel Lusko’s first disaster film as he mostly has directed documentaries and it is writer Hank Woon Jr.’s first produced screenplay for The Asylum. The cast includes Casper Van Dien who starred in Fred Olen Ray’s “Turbulent Skies” and…
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…