A Trio Of Directors For The Next Star Wars Installment
Deadline is reporting that there are still three directors left in the running to tackle Star Wars: Episode VII .Lucasfilm’s favorite is still Matthew Vaughn. And coming off X-Men and Kick-Ass this is no big surprise, but maybe they’re forgetting…
Death Proof: Tarantino’s Worst Film
Quentin Tarantino has admitted that the worst film he has made is his ‘grindhouse’ film ‘Death Proof’. The 2007 film starred Kurt Russell as a malevolent stuntman who stalks a group of women, and murders them with his muscle-car. Tarantino……
Iron Sky: Blu-ray Release
Iron Sky is hilarious. In fact it’s so terrible that one can’t help but laugh at this triple threat of a farce. On the surface it’s obviously a sci-fi spoof. On another, having it be about Nazis living on the…
For The Love Of The Gonk
The Gonk”, the eerily cheerful song that plays over the credits as the zombies shamble through the abandoned mall, is a perfect cap to the film. The juxtaposition of an upbeat, cheery tune playing as dead people stumble through the…
Enter Canuxploitation
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…
B Movie Maverick : Andre De Toth
If we are to believe even a fraction of what has been written by and about the film director André de Toth, who has died aged 89, then his life was even more exciting and varied than the plots of…
Midnight Sundance Line-up
Sundance’s Midnight Movie selection can always be counted on for some high-octane weirdness. This year brings Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb in a comedy about a pregnant couple who move into “the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans,” a provocative…
Gila! and Five Quick Questions with Jim Wynorski
The premiere of ‘Gila!’ at the B Movie Celebration packed the theatre with fans, filmmakers, actors, actresses, and crew members. The entire cast and crew shared their filming experiences with friends and family before and after the film. After the…
Roger Corman’s Poe Movies
Terrifying tales of torture, madness, grizzly death and blood-curdling burials alive. These are core elements of Edgar Allan Poe, the most significant American writer of gothic and grandiose horror stories, the original grandmaster of gore. On the sliver screen, Poe’s…
Little Shop Of Horrors
Funny, sexy black comedy shot by “King of the B’s” Roger Corman on a landmark budget of 27 000 and in landmark time of only 2 days! Its the funniest movie i’ve seen from 1960 or before, and between this…
Ms. Caroline Munro
Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Catholic Convent School. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a “Face of the Year” competition…
Sharknado Is Real
While many of us this week are still dealing with the crippling aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we should all take a moment and be thankful that it wasn’t worse. It could’ve been a Sharknado. What’s a Sharknado? An upcoming movie…
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
“They sing! They dance! They’re juvenile delinquents from outer space!” Paul Bunnell’s “The Ghastly Love of Johnny X” is a lovingly demented homage to 1950s sci-fi and beach-bop cinema, the kind of movie destined for a long and fruitful afterlife…
5 Quick Questions with Whitney Moore – Birdemic
Anyone that can put a movie together deserves tons of credit, the blood, sweat and tears that go into making a movie must be praised no matter what….usually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxZblVUkMU ‘Birdemic Shock and Terror’ was the most recent Rifftrax simulcast and…
PINO DONAGGIO
Pino Donaggio began his involvement with music at the age of ten years. Born in 1941, in Burano, in the Venetian lagoon Italy. Donaggio commenced studies in violin at the Venice Conservatory. He continued these studies at the Verdi Conservatory…
The Eternal Universal Soldier
Sometimes a simple, formulaic genre film breaks free of its format, takes root in the hearts and minds of a generation, and becomes something larger, greater — a modern myth. Movies like these don’t just spawn sequels; they sort of…
Pitch Your Story Idea To The Asylum
PITCH SUBMISSION We are seeking pitches for the following genres ONLY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily Hispanic-American cast. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTION: Action movie with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO ACTION:…
Machete In Court
The owner of the “Machete” action movie sued the makers of an upcoming sequel for more than $2 million, claiming they lied about the budget to avoid paying producer fees. Overnight Productions and Machete’s Chop Shop Inc. sued Machete Kills…
The Big Cheese: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
There is a real movie called “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” Just let that sink in for a minute. In 1964, adults with careers used real money and real effort (well, real money anyway) to make a movie called “Santa…
Duncan Jax, Super Spy
This movie introduces us to superspy, adventurer, and uh…ninja, Duncan Jax (played by Ian Hunter, not the Mott the Hoople singer, although that may have been more interesting). We are about to embark on a spy-ninja-pulp adventure featuring Jax and…