Alien Opponent
Alien Opponent started as an original TV movie on the cable channel Chiller, which explains its comparable quality to that of a SyFy original one. The plot is simple enough, and coyly timed with the Hunger Games release: an alien…
The Raven Not Good
Edgar Allan Poe was not happy — of course, he was never happy. That’s what made him Poe. If Poe ever felt like whistling the tune to “Walkin’ on Sunshine,” he’d have to make sure no one was around. He…
Behind The Scenes Of Abraham Lincoln
It’s funny how things wind up in the zeitgeist and we end up with a bunch of gladiator movies, two asteroid films, two werewolf flicks, etc. A lot of times, it’s not because anyone’s trying to rip anybody off, although…
Dark Shadows
In a surprising move, Warner Bros. has released a slew of videos from the upcoming movie ‘Dark Shadows.’ With almost 10 minutes worth of clips from the movie, one would have to give second thoughts about the marketing strategy the…
Shocker Endings
The sci-fi thriller “Sound of My Voice,’’ starring Brit Marling as a mesmerizing cult leader, keeps its audience guessing as to her true intentions before wrapping up with an a-ha ending that could still be interpreted in a number of…
Zombies of Mass Destruction
An idyllic island town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a rag tag band of rebels is trying…
The Raven
“The Raven” is a movie that sounds great in theory: It’s a fictional thriller that uses Edgar Allen Poe as its central character. There’s a serial killer loose in 1849 Baltimore, and his grisly crimes seem to be inspired by…
The Cowboy Way
American kids growing up in the 1940s and ’50s spent a lot of Saturdays in movie theaters watching Westerns and serials. Nearly all of them acted out the scenes later when they played. But some kids were even luckier and…
SAFE
A slow-building B-movie thriller, “Safe” is nothing new for Jason Statham. A girl is in need of his protection from assorted gangs of bad men. But the dialogue crackles with flinty one-liners. “Don’t lose sleep. He had it coming,” he…
The Killers
This remake of the classic film with the same name (1946) by Robert Siodmak deals with two hired killers (Lee Marvin , Clu Gulager in similar role to William Conrad and Charles McGraw) who murder a man (John Cassavetes replacing…
Man Bait
Man Bait is an engrossing, low-budget British film noir that represents an early Hammer Films production in the years before the studio turned to producing their legendary line of horror movies. Several soon-to-be-big Hammer icons worked on the production: it…
The Phantom Passes
William Finley, a character actor who appeared in many films by Brian De Palma, most memorably as the title character in the 1974 rock opera “The Phantom of the Paradise,” died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 71 and lived…
Tribute To Bruce Surtees
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER 1973, Universal, 105 min, USA, Dir: Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood directs himself as the hardboiled stranger hired by a town to protect it from outlaws – but this stranger may not be who he seems. As the…
Strippers Vs Werewolves
Director Jonathan Glendening of 13Hrs werewolf notoriety doesn’t move that far away from his furry feral fiends in his latest grizzly flick, Strippers Vs Werewolves. This exceptionally daft, tongue-in-cheek pastiche of the erotic slasher B-movie also taps into the comic-book…
Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except
from AV Club Quentin Tarantino wasn’t the first ambitious B-movie fanatic to turn a hobby into a career; he followed a trail blazed by the likes of Joe Dante, Sam Raimi, the Coen brothers, and others. Josh Becker and Scott…
Rodriguez Returns
You may recall when Robert Rodriquez first came on the scene with El Mariachi, a movie he allegedly made for $30,000. I loved his bigger budget version of the film, Desperado, and enjoy Rodriguez’s work when he’s on top…
A-Z Avengers
EVERYTHING you need to know about “Earth’s mightiest heroes”, from the alien armies they faced to the billionaire recluse who inspired Iron Man. A is for Assemble “Avengers Assemble!” is the battle cry of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. It is also…
Nevermore
Much we know is true: Edgar Allan Poe died on Oct. 7, 1849, at the age of 40, after having been found delirious and incoherent in the streets of Baltimore. His exact whereabouts in the few days previous remain unknown….
They Hate The Hobbit
All is not well in Middle Earth. Director Peter Jackson debuted ten minutes of footage from his upcoming ‘Lord Of The Rings’ prequel, ‘The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey,’ at CinemaCon in Las Vegas yesterday, and the number of negative reactions…
Morton Downey: The Movie
Whether it’s Glenn Beck stretching the boundaries of reason to brand President Obama “a racist” or Rush Limbaugh’s “slut-gate” imbroglio, some conservative-talk pundits have devolved into far-right caricatures obsessed with headline-grabbing one-upmanship. And their millions of acolytes—including, apparently, certain Supreme…