Red Westerns
So, you’re a true Western aficionado. You’ve seen every John Wayne film, every Joel McCrea and Audie Murphy B-movie, and the spaghetti flicks from Leone. You’ve watched the silent classics and the singing cowboy adventures, the serials and the TV…
Retro A GoGo
Classic films on Portland screens, August 3 – 9 “Conan the Barbarian” The future governor of California plays a sword-weilding barbarian — as good a credential for public office as any, most likely — in this late-night screening hosted by…
‘Doctor Who’ Was Cut from Live Olympics
For years, Doctor Who fans have eagerly awaited the chance to see The Doctor (Doctor Who?) light the Olympic Flame – as prophesied by the show’s 2006 episode “Fear Her.” Of course, with the whole world watching, it was unlikely…
Prequel To The Shining In The Works
LA Times‘ Movies Now says that Warner Bros. is “quietly exploring the possibility of a prequel” that delves into the macabre backstory concerning what transpired at the haunted (…or is it?) Overlook Hotel, prior to the arrival of Jack Torrance…
3rd Hobbit Movie Confirmed
Looks like there’s company. A third HOBBIT movie has been confirmed. (Image: Warner Bros./New Line Cinema) Looks like there’s more company. A third Hobbit movie has been confirmed. Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema The rumors have been confirmed….
Brainy B-movies
Demented surgeons who know no bounds, crazed doctors keeping brains alive, abductions and decapitations – you can tell Steve Seid had an enormous amount of fun putting together the program for this year’s Summer Cinema on Center Street, a free…
Splatter-Rama
The word “tasteless” may best describe the double feature of horror films landing at Cinema Paradiso this weekend, and not because buckets of blood will flow on the silver screen. Rather, it’s the laughably bad plot lines and uniformly terrible…
Kentucky Fried Movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie is an American comedy film, released in 1977 and directed by John Landis. The film’s writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who would go on to write and direct Airplane!,…
Psycho Pike
Though Canada’s genre movie output is undeniably dominated by horror films, that doesn’t mean that all different strains of creepy cinema are equally represented. The majority of our homegrown horrors are weighted toward lumbering killers, psychological disturbances and bodily terror;…
Canadian Exploitation
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…
Corman’s Fantastic Four
When Benjamin Grimm first uttered these words, it was his intent to pummel whatever evil menace that threatened humanity yet not even the all-knowing Watcher would’ve foreseen that such a battle cry would someday be meant for Ben and his…
The Land That Time Forgot
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ book of the same name, director Kevin Connor’s 1975 B movie sees a German U-boat carrying British prisoners of war stray across Caprona – an uncharted sub-continent inhabited by dinosaurs and neanderthals. The Land That…
Fantasia
Its the 16th edition of Fantasia, and on this occasion, we present 160 films that take your breath away. Get ready to enjoy bizarre and brilliant works. You will experience unparalleled in our cinemas. You will be electrified, inspired or…
Forbidden Visions
BBAM! Gallery is proud to present FORBIDDEN VISIONS, an exclusive exhibition of uncensored fantastic film and underground cinema poster art from the Cinepix / John Dunning archives. The show is a collaboration with the Fantasia Film Festival and will run…
B Movie Musical
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre presents Little Shop of Horrors Where: McPherson Theatre When: Previews Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. Opens Aug. 2, runs until Aug. 12. Tickets: $24.50 each for the preview shows. $54.75 for adults, $49.25 for student…
God Bless America is a B-movie that hits the spot
Bobcat Goldthwait’s violently dyspeptic new black comedy God Bless America is, at heart, a pretty bad movie: dialogue is mainly standup-style rants; the too-spelt-out script feels first-draft, if that, and Bobcat’s no better a director than he is a writer….
Citizen Kane Still The Greatest?
Orson Welles’s 1941 feature tracks the rise and fall of an American media mogul from the Colorado backwoods to a lonely death in his fairy-tale palace. Every 10 years Sight and Sound magazine has canvassed a caucus of critics for…
Judge Dredd Redo
Dredd 3D star Karl Urban is quick to point out the immense disparities between his sci-fi epic and the one that Sylvester Stallone brought to the world in 1995 called Judge Dredd. “When I read the script, it became obvious…
Island Of Lost Souls
When the Motion Picture Production Code, a draconian set of moral censorship guidelines, came crashing down on Hollywood studios in 1934 it put an end to one of the most adventurous eras in American film-making, extinguishing a spark that was…
Klown
Klown, a comedy from Denmark about two men on a canoe trip who descend into all sorts of desperate debauchery, demonstrates how the semi-improv, jitter-cam mode of filmmaking has gone from being a style to a tic — a way…