Going Beyond B’s
Carrie and Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn are horror classics, and it’s no surprise that the Terrace Theater would feature them on their monthly fright night lineup. But there’s more to the films than that. Both challenged the conventional…
Get The Gringo
And he will do just about anything to get it. As we all should know by now, the moment Gibbo’s private life went public, his career went kaput. The man is either too proud or too deluded to realise the…
Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes
The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy Award, but he has a passion for the colorful cut-price end of the cinema market: horror films and thrillers, melodramas and westerns….
A PSYCHOTRONIC CHILDHOOD
Growing up on the Upper East Side in the nineteen-seventies, I was a bit of a shut-in. I would prefer to have been a sickly child. I always love it when I read a biography of some key Modernist or…
Thirty-five years ago in movie theaters very, very close to home ….. ‘Star Wars’ was born
While May the Fourth (be with you … yeah, yeah, we get it) has come and gone, what might be the most important naturally occurring high holy day on the geek calendar happens this Friday – the 35th anniversary of…
Bettlejuice
Beetlejuice tells the story of Adam and Barbara (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis), who die in a car crash shortly after they marry and buy an isolated Connecticut mansion. As members of the recently deceased, they re-appear at the house,…
Men In Black 3
Men in Black 3, like 1997’s Men in Black and 2002’s Men in Black II, is based on the 1990s comic book The Men in Black created by Lowell Cunningham, about a covert agency that monitors non-human beings that walk…
Zoe Saldana In Machete 2
“The sequel to Machete, Machete Kills is going to be a lot more over-the-top than Machete,” Trejo told Moviehole. “We’ve got Sofia Vergara, who is a star in her own right, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, and Zoe Saldana – and…
Behind The Scenes With Alien
The success of “Star Wars” changed everything. While “2001” had been a giant hit a decade ago, most put it down to a fluke, but George Lucas’ film suddenly proved that science fiction wasn’t just for B-movies, but could be…
After 35 Years Star War’s Fans Endures
Arthur Powers is 19 with a face to match, a flattop he cut himself and jeans he hemmed with scissors. He wears his grandfather’s large wedding band with tape wrapped around the back. He has no money or car. He…
Star War’s In 3_D
Lucas was the story writer of all the main Star Wars films. He also served as the director of all films except for The Empire strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. For those who haven’t seen the original version…
George’s Own Star War
George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, is in a bitter row over plans to sell land near his Skywalker Ranch for low-income housing. The director infuriated some of his neighbours in the rural enclave of Marin County, north of…
The Science of Blasters
You have no idea how long I have been planning to look at the blasters in Star Wars. No idea. Finally, the 35th Anniversary of Star Wars has motivated me to complete my study (which I haven’t actually started). Here…
Phil Tippett Starts A Masterwork 35 Years After Star Wars
In a warehouse space in a picturesque neighborhood here, Phil Tippett, the Oscar-winning visual effects genius who has worked on everything from Star Wars to the wolf pack in the Twilight films, is toiling away on a passion project that…
That Other Alien Invasion Movie
Over the past couple of decades, this four-day holiday weekend has been one of the busiest moviegoing weekends of the year and after three weeks at #1 and having grossed over $450 million, it seems like a good time for…
Superheroes Too Big For TV
Despite what seemed like overwhelmingly good news for Marvel Enterprises lately — including the record-breaking success of The Avengers as it remained the best-selling movie three weekends in a row and Avengers vs. X-Men topping the comic book charts —…
Samuel L. Jackson Presents
This year the BET AWARDS 12 (#BETAWARDS) will be ‘Too Big To Miss.’ Earlier today at a press conference held in BET’s New York studios, it was announced that actor Samuel L. Jackson, declared the highest grossing movie actor of…
Movies That Suck
I was into vampires before it was cool to say you were into vampires. I’m a vampire hipster’s hipster. I loved the original Dracula classics and always found something both terrifying about that type of character. Maybe it’s the fact…
Nazis return from the moon in bonkers B-movie
Iron Sky’s audacious ‘Nazis on the moon’ concept and fan-funded nature has secured plenty of advanced publicity for the project, but apart from a few barkingly brilliant moments there is little to enjoy in this poorly executed and tonally inconsistent…
Resurrection Rises
Two years on and it looks like Resurrection — a sci-fi/horror film from Jeff Burr that the Backbrain first introduced in May 2010 — is on the verge of release. We still don’t know what exactly is being resurrected, but…