Cannibal Girls
Shot in 1972 by a then-unknown filmmaker Ivan Reitman, Cannibal Girls may not have been the first Canadian horror film ever made, but it quickly gained a reputation as one of the sleaziest Canadian B-movie concoctions of its era. Where…
Westworld
Westworld is a 1973 science fiction-thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton and produced by Paul Lazarus III. It stars Yul Brynner as an Android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as…
Logan’s Run Remake
A proposed remake of cheesy 70’s sci-fi flick “Logan’s Run” has been batted around Hollywood for a while now. It’s one of those projects that’s been in turnaround for so long, it’s almost unnatural to think of it as something…
The Golden Cob Winners Announced
The winner of this years Golden Cab have been announced. The awards will be handed out at The B Movie Celebration September 14th-16th in Columbus, Indiana. The Golden Cobs celebrated the bets in B/Exploitation Cinema. THE 2012 GOLDEN COB AWARDS…
Jurassic 4
Longtime Steven Spielberg collaborator/producer Frank Marshall has provided an update on the status of Jurassic Park 4. The 5-time Oscar-nominee served up that tantalizing tidbit while working the promotion circuit for next month’s fourth installment in the Jason Bourne franchise,…
Dark Knight Scores In India
The film opened on a tremendous note, saw some critical acclaim coming its way as well and in the process made sure that no other Hindi film that released alongside had any chance whatsoever at the box office. However, it…
Dark Knight Rises Review
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises completes not only his personal trilogy focusing on socialite Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Gotham City’s caped crusader, but also a cycle of popular culture that began in May 1939 when Batman was…
Pyscho
I don’t! That’s how I get to keep it!” Hitchcock’s macabre pulp masterpiece begins with the most dangerous piece of tax evasion in movie history. Sweaty, leery, cowboy-hatted businessman Tom Cassidy has come into the office of a Phoenix realtor,…
Tickets Rising For Batman
According to Fandango, domestic box office online ticket sales for Warner Bros’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises currently represents 91% of Thursday’s ticket sales. MovieTickets pegged their number at 87.5% for Wednesday. Earlier this week, Fandango surveyed the…
No Biel For Wolverine
Jessica Biel, who we reported as having been in discussions to join the cast of “The Wolverine,” has decided to pass on the X-Men-related film. Biel had been in talks to take the role of Viper, who was created by…
Silence House At The Alamo
“Silent House”, the recent horror film presented as a single-take, is certainly one of the best horror films of the year. It was creative, frightening, unnerving, and boasted an excellent performance in Elizabeth Olsen. Unfortunately many were unable to appreciate…
Animated Re-Animator
This week, New York City’s musical theater scene is revitalized, thanks to Stuart Gordon and the musical adaptation of his gonzo, gory contemporary classic, RE-ANIMATOR (playing at the PTC Performance Space- 555 West 42 St), finally hitting town, following an…
Christoph Waltz Has Fun
One poor journalist gets things started by asking Christoph Waltz if he can talk about his character. Christoph Waltz: No. Definitely no. You know, I don’t talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid…
According To Peter Jackson
In honor of The Hobbit’s wrapping, I took a little personal trip down memory lane to the last time I was this excited about the holiday movie offerings. We’d have to go back over ten years (to an unfortunate period…
Are Movie Studios Obsolete?
Ben Silverman, Chairman of multi-media producer Electus recently keynoted a Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Los Angeles. Ben noted that 100 years ago in order to make a film you needed 50 acres of land in the San…
Five Horrible Beach Movies
For my generation, summer evenings were often spent at the local drive-in watching whatever blockbuster or B-movie happened to be on the marquis. If we were lucky, we might have caught a masterpiece like Godfather II (as I did in…
Dark Knight Rises
His legacy stained by the “murder” of Harvey Dent, whose dark secret identity went with him to his grave, the Batman has been absent from Gotham City for years. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has kept an equally low profile, though…
Decapoda Shock
An astronaut returns to Earth after a fatal accident on a distant planet. When he discovers he has been the victim of a sinister plot, he decides to take vengeance on those responsible for the death of his family. […
Elysium
Yesterday, Neill Blomkamp hit Hall H at Comic-Con with seven minutes of footage from his sophomore feature film effort, “Elysium.” The “District 9” director was returning to San Diego as a bit of a hero, having unveiled his first feature…
Jarmusch
There’s no one in independent film quite like Jim Jarmusch, one of American cinema’s most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Born to Episcopalian parents in Ohio in 1953, the director fell in love with B-movie double bills his mother left him in as…