Down And Funny
”THIS film has been classified as vulgar comedy,” runs a mock-official disclaimer at the start of Vulgaria, the latest from prolific Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung. Shortly after, prudish viewers are allowed 10 seconds to leave the cinema – which…
Hit And Run
This slapstick road movie feels tossed off by people on a raunchy bender. I mean that as a good thing. The trouble with Hit & Run is that it can’t sustain its trippy effervescence. The business of getting the plot…
Sam Fuller At The Aero
The Naked Kiss (1964) is the prototypical Sam Fuller film, from the leering paperback title to the in medias res opening that pounces like a tawdry B-movie trailer, with Constance Towers’s call-girl Kelly swinging her high-heel shoe at her pimp…
Sam Fuller At The Aero
The Naked Kiss (1964) is the prototypical Sam Fuller film, from the leering paperback title to the in medias res opening that pounces like a tawdry B-movie trailer, with Constance Towers’s call-girl Kelly swinging her high-heel shoe at her pimp…
Daleks Master Plan
Is Sara Kingdom officially a companion? Is the Christmas Day episode – in which Hartnell’s Doctor breaks the fourth wall for the first time in the series by raising a glass to everyone back home – as rubbish as it…
Learn To Love Jaws:The Revenge
from Den of Geek t’s a testament to the lasting power of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws that, 37 years on from its first release, you can still walk into a cinema somewhere and watch it. The American theatre chain Cinemark will…
Porkchop 3D
Seriously I love the title for all its b-movie awesomeness. Below you can checkout the trailer for Porkchop 3D an indie production made with $3k. When a group of Porkchop’s would-be victims return for revenge, they never suspect the pig-masked…
Rocketeer Re-Boot
One of the movies of my childhood that I hold close to my heart is The Rocketeer. Starring Bill Campbell as a young race pilot who stumbles upon a stolen prototype jetpack, he fights the bad guy (Timothy Dalton) and…
Premium Rush
The expression “B-movie” generally gets tossed around pejoratively, but here’s the God’s-honest truth: Good B-movies like Premium Rush may be a rarer breed than virtually any other kind of movie you could name. The term’s context in film history certainly…
Campbell:Thumbs Up To Evil Dead Remake
The Evil Dead is one of the seminal horror movies of the 1980s. Its grungy effects, over the top performances and inventive kinetic direction from a young unknown named Sam Raimi turned it into a runaway cult classic that spawned…
Fun B Flicks
Good morning, everyone. I hope that your week is off to a good start so far. For the second of today’s expanded edition of Reel Reviews, I’ve got a treat for all the calssic movie fans. Now there are a…
A Winter America
Despite the massive success of “The Avengers,” Marvel isn’t resting on its laurels and is hard at work on the next phase of films that will lead into the sequel of the superhero team-up film, which already has a release…
Django Control
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,…
Toxic Travolta
In the spring of 2010, a not-so-brilliant, hare-brained idea was announced: a remake of Troma Entertainment’s campy, super low-budget, sex-filled 1984 B-movie (or is that Z-movie?) “The Toxic Avenger.” With genius Akiva Goldsman (“I Am Legend,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”),…
The Guyver
The Guyver (released in Europe as Mutronics) is a 1991 American Science fiction Tokusatsu film loosely based on the Manga Anime series of the same name. The film tells of a young man, Sean Barker who discovers an alien artifact…
Space Monster Camera: Super Monster
From Video Junkie We may not be the kind of slackers who can sit around and watch kaiju all day, waxing lyrical about the subtle nuances between Toho’s Baragon and Daiei’s Barugon (a big set of ears, right Aaron?) and…
Ron O’Neal
A tall, handsome and light-complected African-American player of stage and screen, Ron O’Neal first gained some measure of prominence with his portrayal of Youngblood Priest, the cool, resourceful and stylishly dressed cocaine dealer protagonist of “Superfly” (1972). Dismissed by some…
Howard Dean Does B’s
It’s 1984. Dr. Howard Dean has an internal medicine practice in Vermont, and fifth-graders everywhere love ninjas. Meanwhile, “Ninja III: The Domination” is in theaters. In one scene, a hooded warrior is wreaking his trademark havoc on a golf course,…
Vendetta
The women-in-prison genre is an interesting phenomenon in that it created a surprising number of distinctive and original stories while operating within a very narrow set of parameters. Look no further than this entry which was conceived and co-written by…
Red Dawn Remake
On Aug. 9, the first theatrical trailer for the remake of “Red Dawn,” starring Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, was released online. This “Red Dawn” updates the 1984 movie mostly in the details, notably changing the identity of the big-bad…