Big Trouble in Little China
Jack Burton is nobody special. He’s just your average red-blooded American—a loudmouth truckdriver with a gambling habit and a knack for getting into trouble. When his friend Wang’s fiancée Miao Yin is kidnapped by sex traffickers, Jack agrees to help…
Academy Scores B Movie Posters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has received a gift of 1,088 original film posters, many of them “B movies” from Hollywood’s golden age, the organization announced Tuesday. The donated posters, from Chicago real estate developer Dwight Cleveland,…
Amazon Women On The Moon
One of the first R-rated comedies I saw when I learned how to watch them on the sly (thanks mid-’80s HBO!), Amazon Women was juvenile, smutty and profoundly stupid. Needless to say, I loved it. It’s one of those proudly…
Piranha
Producer Roger Corman’s modus operandi was to take guys who wanted to be the next Godard and get them to make a 90-minute low budget exploitation film, so they could learn their craft and become more disciplined filmmakers. From Martin…
Spiders 3D To Get 3D Theatrical Release
Just last week we reported about the upcoming Spiders 3D release The release will be in theaters and Premium VOD February 8, 2013 and then Spiders will hit DVD and VOD March 12, 2013. At the time we noted that…
Podcast: Starcrash From Saturday B Movie Reel
On this podcast Kevin discusses the cheesy and fun Starcrash (1979). You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by clicking on the play button at the bottom of this post or you can view the full blog…
Coming Soon – B Movie Podcasts
We’re going to start posting links to B movie podcasts that we think you folks might enjoy. I’ve been a podcaster since 2005 and for those who might not be aware a podcast is simply an audio recording presented as…
Reviving The American Movie Theater
This week a mediocre film by all accounts “Hansel and Gretel” took in $19 million dollars on 3,372 screens or $5,635 per screen. The second picture was the horror film “Mama” which in its second week of release took in…
The Return Of Sonny Chiba
Hollywood Reporter has announced that Chiba’s first film for Assembly Line will be Bushido, a film about “a band of Buffalo Soldiers and Japanese samurai serving together in the American Civil War.” The film is based on an original story…
Monte Hellman And Roger Corman
Born in 1932, the future Two-Lane Blacktop director had studied film at UCLA, worked as a TV editor, and founded a theatre company before, in 1959, he started making monster movies for Corman. For Corman, as well as working as…
John Dies At The End
I come to bury “John Dies at the End,” not to praise it. Of course, after burying it I’ll dig it up again, replace its head with a frozen turkey and send it, staggering and undead, to batter down your…
She
She is a 1965 film made by Hammer Film Productions, based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard.It was directed by Robert Day and stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros and Christopher Lee. The film…
Abrams Next To Helm Star Wars
I don’t consider this to be good news. Trek has never mixed well with the Wars. JJ Abrams might be the most powerful man in science fiction pop culture, as he takes on Star Wars following his successful revamp of…
Wow Piranhaconda On Cinemax Asia
Piranhaconda Sunday, 27 Jan at 10.00PM Starring: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Shandi Finnessey Directed by: Jim Wynorski Genre: Horror-thriller Over seven decades since he first began making his name with the kind of fun, Z-grade schlock this film falls way…
Man From Planet X
The Man From Planet X is a 1951 science fiction film. starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and William Schallert. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer A spaceship from a previously unknown planet lands in the Scottish moors, bringing an…
Ticks
Directed by Tony Randel and released by Paramount in 1993, Ticks may not be the most original horror movie ever made but it definitely is a lot of fun. Written by Brent V. Friedman, the man who gave us the…
IN SEARCH OF DRACULA
Given the plethora of low-budget 1970s documentaries exploring such phenomena as UFOs, Bigfoot, etc., it’s no surprise that Bram Stoker’s Prince of Darkness would become grist for the cinematic mill. Based on a 1972 bestseller, producer/director Calvin Floyd’s low-budget 1975…
Mr.Bad:Uwe Boll
UWE BOLL is often referred to as the worst filmmaker in the world. This seems to pain Mr. Boll, a gregarious 42-year-old German whose best-known movies are based on video games. So he has shared the pain with his critics,…
Virtually Heroes
With films like Hobo with a Shotgun and V/H/S validating the nostalgic, antiquated fantasy ethos of a generation of emotionally limited young men unconsciously keen on implicit power, a movie like Virtually Heroes, a glowing testament to insecure male identity…
Charles Lamont
Charles Lamont was a prolific film director of over 200 titles, and the producer and writer of many others. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and died in Los Angeles, California, USA. Some of Lamont’s earliest directorial jobs were…