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…
Joe Dante Presents Supercuts
Ah, the supercut: where would YouTube and pop culture blogs be without those rapid-fire montages of various movie clichés and catchphrases? (We admit that we’re partial to It’s Gonna Blow! and Hitchcock cameos). Well, years before he made Piranha, Gremlins…
Step Up
Once upon a time, dance crews battled each other for street supremacy. B-boys and b-girls went to war armed with pops and locks, with only that dimpled guy from Saved by the Bell to break up the, uh, breakdancing. But…
10 Ways Roger Corman Changed Filmmaking
10.) He brought some of the world’s biggest actors to the screen. Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Dennis Hopper — why did so many of Corman’s stars go on to become Hollywood legends? “Because he had the ability to find actors…
SYFY AUGUST
Warehouse 13 star Eddie McClintock must stop the Boogeyman, while Danny Trejo and Charisma Carpenter tackle a deadly ghost, in Syfy’s “Most Dangerous Night on Television” Original Movie premieres in August. In Boogeyman, premiering Saturday, August 11 at 9PM (ET/PT),…
Russo’s Nab CAPTAIN AMERICA
Marvel continued its trend of choosing surprising and intriguing directors to helm its superhero movies with the confirmation at Comic-Con that the Russo Brothers (exec producers on Community and directors of You, Me And Dupree) had nabbed the job of…
We Want SciFi Sequels
Does Independence Day need a sequel after 16 years? Producer Dean Devlin seems to think so, mooting one alongside a follow-up to the original Stargate movie. The temptation though is always to leave these things alone, unsullied by a follow-up…
Terror Disrupts
There’s something about the dark and quiet of a movie theater that allows us to make ourselves vulnerable. We enter into an implicit pact, giving over to the images, letting ourselves laugh at something silly or cry at something poignant,…
Attack of the Giant Brain Sucker Monster from Outer Space
Attack of the Giant Brain Sucker Monster from Outer Space [aka L’attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l’espace] (France-2012; short [c. 18 min.]; dir. Guillaume Rieu) is a sci-fi comedy musical featuring the old-school monster-film aesthetic that warms…
Al Adamson
In the 1960’s and 70’s, there have been innumerous directors making movies especially for the drive-in and grindhouse circuit, and the vast majority of the films they were churning out could be described as cheap, cheesy, trashy, sleazy and outright…