Possession
Are exorcisms culturally specific? The concept behind The Possession, a solid, Jewish-inflected B-movie riff on The Exorcist from director Ole Bornedal, can’t help but leave you wondering. Sure, a Catholic priest can attempt to take care of a demon, but…
Bait 3D
As a bit of old-fashioned B-movie silliness – perfect for late night programming slots – Bait 3D delivers enough gore and good-lookers to keep things interesting, and while it is high on concept and low on scripting, as shark attack…
The Drive-in Movie
Sometime around the summer of 1988, the program directors at every local T.V. station in the country must’ve gotten together in their war room and decided to stop showing B-movies on Saturday afternoons. “Why should we beg Crazy Eddie and…
Slice and Dice Action Hero
Up until very recently you could catch plastic surgery on parade simply by tuning into Desperate Housewives each week. But now that Wisteria Lane’s closed for good, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any other cosmetically tweaked ensembles on display in…
Monsters coming to theater group’s gala
It looks like sunny skies for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company. The troupe of daring thespians finally has a home – at Studio 101, 1824 Spring St. – after 11 years of performing in art galleries, dance studios, nightclubs and other…
Screaming in High Heels
The DVD of “Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era” was released today. Edited for its TV debut earlier this year, the unrated DVD of “Screaming in High Heels” chronicles the careers of the…
Out Of Control Django
As “Django Unchained” made its way in front of cameras, Quentin Tarantino saw both the cast and script for his upcoming slavery/western/vengeance pic change as production moved along. Joseph Gordon-Levitt had to bail on his small role in the film,…
The Rock Might Be A ‘Badass For Hire’
With “The Expendables” and “Red” bringing the old people B-movie thing back into vogue, and while those films wink at ’80s action movie conventions, “Dan Mintner: Badass For Hire” drives a truck through them. And who better to get on…
La Morte Vivante
Jean Rollin was a legendary French filmmaker who released dozens of fantasy and horror films over a career spanning more than five decades. Many of his earlier films dealt with vampires, but 1982’s La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl)…
Tony Scott R.I.P.
From the Geeks Of Doom We at Geeks of Doom and everyone around the cinema community and the globe are still stunned by the news last week that film director Tony Scott, responsible for so many of the fun, in…
Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent
It’s always the same when you dilly dally in getting up to the buffet at a social function – most of the luxury dishes are gone. So being late to this party it was no surprise my favourite fare was…
Always Wanted To Be An Action Star
Jason Statham was always determined to be the ”next action hero”. The ‘Expendables’ 2 star dated model-and-actress Kelly Brook for seven years until 2004 and she was happy to move to Hollywood with him because she always knew he would…
B-Movie Director Is Making An Earth Defense Force 2017 Commercial
OK, so Earth Defense Force isn’t getting the Onechanbara treatment with a feature film, but it will get a live action… umm… commercial for Earth Defense Force 3 Portable. Minoru Kawasaki the B-movie director behind Executive Koala and The Calamari…
B-List Movie Cars
A-list movie cars come in three categories: First are the glamorous cars like James Bond’s silver 1964 Aston Martin DB5; next are over-the-top custom creations like the Batmobile; and finally, the decidedly unglamorous cars that nevertheless grabbed a ton of…
Q
Q is a fun, low budget thriller from B-movie auteur Larry Cohen. The premise is that an ancient Mexican God Quetzalcoatl has taken the form of a giant flying serpent and is living somewhere in New York, feasting on unsuspecting…
MSTK3000:Yelling At The Screen Makes Us Smarter
Is there anything worse than one guy talking to a movie screen, ruining the viewing experience for everyone? Get a group of people together talking to the screen, however, and suddenly you have something like a party — a brand-new…
Roger: Why the Internet’s the Next Home for Indie Film
Roger Corman should need no introduction. Without him, independent film in the United States would be an entirely different entity, if it would even exist at all. As a director, he was responsible for a classic series of Edgar Allan…
B-MOVIE CELEBRATION’ Hits Indiana Sept 14-16
Often the term “B-Movie” is thought carry an attitude of derision and scorn. Low budget “B” or genre filmmaking is considered to be second class or in some way inferior to Hollywood’s slick corporate product. We at the B-Movie Celebration…
The Iron Sky Ride
Following in the footsteps of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, here’s another comedic reimagining of the history of Nazi Germany. But where Tarantino’s Nazi-hunter lark stayed relatively grounded in reality, Finnish director Timo Vuorensola goes off the deep end with a…
Hollywood’s 3 Bs for fall: Bond, Bella, Bilbo
The B-list rules Hollywood’s fall and holiday movie season: Bond, Bella and Bilbo. Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in “Skyfall,” the super-spy’s first adventure in four years, one of the longest 007 hiatuses in the franchise’s 50-year history….