Goon
Fighting in hockey has always been a contentious issue, but Goon arrives in theatres at a particularly controversial time, as the news media has turned its eye on the darker side of the sport. Star players have been sidelined by…
Scare-meister Oren Peli
If you’ve been following ABC’s The River , you know some messed up stuff has been happening ever since the crew of the Magus set out to find Dr. Emmet Cole. In an effort to find out what awaits them…
Movie posters set to bring $250,000
The Berwick Discovery of Lost Movie Posters – a trove of 33 classic and incredibly rare posters dating back as far as 1930 – many examples of which were thought to be lost for all time, ranging in value from…
Robert B Sherman RIP
One half of the Sherman Brothers songwriting team, the legendary Disney musicals composer died today. We look back at his greatest movie hits, including classics such as I Wanna Be Like You and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Robert B Sherman…
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS TRAILER 1957 ROGER CORMAN
Theatrical trailer for the Roger Corman-directed cult science-fiction classic, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, starring Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan and Russell Johnson. One of legendary filmmaker “B” movie producer Corman’s most memorable films told the frightening tale of a group…
No Murray No Ghostbusters
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Dan Aykroyd confirmed that Bill Murray will not be a part of a movie that’s never going to happen, Ghostbusters III. Thank God. Anyone who’s actually taken a peek at what Aykroyd had…
Are Germans Ready to Laugh at a Film About Nazis from Space?
When the kitschy sci-fi comedy Iron Sky is released in German cinemas this spring, it will pose a couple of interesting questions: Is the Internet offering a viable, new alternative for funding and producing movies? And, perhaps more intriguingly, are…
Trumbull talks filmmaking
The role of the “special effects man” has become a dominant and integral one in modern filmmaking. What used to be the hallmark of a B-movie has become the key for box-office success. Last Friday afternoon, special effects pioneer Douglas…
TheSadist/The Thrill Killers: A Noisejunkie Review
picked “The Sadist” and “The Thrill Killers” together for a few reasons. One is because they both feature dangerous psychos on the loose. And another, more important reason is that they’re two of my all-time favorite B-movies and they represent…
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 Australian documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and ’80s low-budget cinema. The film was written and directed by Mark Hartley, who interviewed over eighty Australian,…
Alamo Drafthouse’s Summer of 82 Screens Vintage Sci-Fi, Action
Sci-fi and action movie fans fixated on the ’80s might want to relocate for the summer to Austin, Texas, where the Alamo Drafthouse will revive Blade Runner, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and other blockbusters from 1982 on the same day as…
A Sequel To I AM LEGEND?
At the end of 2007’s mostly-aright I Am Legend, Will Smith blows himself up so that humanity may live to see another day. Killing your hero would be the end for most franchises. But because this is Hollywood, and because…
Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood Watch will be your brocentric comedy to watch for in 2012. Supporting evidence: It stars Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller; it’s written by Superbad’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg; it’s directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer….
Funding B’s
TAX accountant and one-time B-movie backer Kieran Corrigan has several new film investments on the horizon, including a new version of the Wizard of Oz. Corrigan and Deliverance director John Boorman formed Merlin Films in 1989 and raised more than…
Top 50 B Movies
In no particular order, here are the top fifty B Movies(well according to me anyways) Evil Dead II Re-Animator Death Race Escape from New York Beyond the Valley of the Dolls The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Dawn of the Dead Phantasm…
Debra Paget
Born Debralee Griffin in Denver, Colorado, on August 19, 1933, stunning actress Debra Paget was schooled in New York, studying dance and drama. Before her 15th birthday, she was signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract in early 1948. The studio…
Luther writer Neil Cross hired for Raimi’s Day Of The Triffids
The notion of director Sam Raimi bringing his morbid sensibilities to John Wyndham’s classic novel The Day Of The Triffids sounds almost too wonderful to be true. So much so that, when it was announced back in 2010 that Raimi…
Gila Invades Indiana
I grew up on Saturday afternoon and nighttime television reruns of scary movies. And science fiction always remained a favorite. At the time, I had no idea films were lumped into categories, and some of my viewing usuals definitely were…
3D Piranha
The original Piranha, released in 1978, was a very good, low budget Jaws rip-off that was Steven Spielberg’s favorite take off on his shark classic. It helped launch the career of Joe Dante, who went on to direct The Howling…
Re-baking Pie
Next month, the horndogs of “American Pie” return to the American consciousness with “American Reunion,” the first time in nearly a decade that the likes of Jim, Finch and Stifler will be on the big screen together. The movie, which…