Carry On Films
The Carry On films are a series of 31 low-budget British motion pictures produced between 1958 and 1992. The Carry On series is notable for producing the greatest number of films of any British series, and next to the James…
The Retirng Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his…
You’ve Sunk My Battleship
Once again, it was all about The Avengers at the box office, as three new releases failed to even approach the Marvel superhero blockbuster’s third-weekend gross of $55.1 million, according to studio estimates. The movie dropped 47 percent — an…
Praising B’s
Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie. 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…
Indie Game The Movie
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of struggling independent artist: the indie game designer. Refusing to toil for major developers, these innovators independently conceive, design, and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they, too, may…
Phillipines B Star Heading To Hollywood
Manny Pacquiao has played superhero in a bright red costume and a stubborn rebel commander in movies he produced in the Philippines. The next time he stands in front of movie camera he will play the role of a gangster,…
Iron Sky
Nothing about this Finnish-derived space oddity, opening (and closing) next Wednesday, quite matches the genius of its tagline: “In 1945, Nazis went to the moon; in 2018, they’re coming back”. Timo Vuorensola’s film uses its B-movie plot – an American…
Battleship
It’s funny — somehow, in all the time we’ve been getting our classic-games fix playing Battleship, we missed the part where you’ll call out, say, B-5, and suddenly find a giant, techno-morphing alien spacecraft on the grid. But hey, if…
Super Heroes To The Rescue
After last year’s worst-since-1995 box office sales for the movie industry, the record-setting opening weekend for “The Avengers” – $207.4 million at domestic theaters – was welcome news. The opening that outpaced the finale of “Harry Potter” followed an earlier…
Biehn In New Grindhouse
Actor Michael Biehn, best known for his starring roles in The Terminator and Aliens, and his Blanc Biehn Productions have joined forces with director Xavier Gens (Hitman) to produce a series of grindhouse films, the first of which will be…
Tentacles Claw Debuts
CORNER BROOK There is much mystery surrounding the local comic horror film “The Tentacle’s Claw,” but there is no mystique in the hype leading up to and including Friday’s premiere screening. The husband and wife duo of Michael Rigler, writer/director,…
New Apes On Track
Rise of the Planet of the Apes received great reviews and strong box office results, raking in over $480 million worldwide, in no small thanks to Andy Serkis, whose motion capture performance even got strong Oscar buzz. With the…
Don’t Remake Suspiria
As a long time horror film buff, I absolutely loved Suspiria. Released in 1977, Suspiria is director Dario Argento’s masterpiece. The movie is an incredible visual and aural nightmare, with amazing set pieces and a groundbreaking score from the Italian…
Astro Zombies In Vegas
Astro Zombies M4: Invaders From Cyber Space B-movie legend Ted V. Mikels made the original Astro-Zombies in 1968, and now he’s back with the brand-new fourth film in the series. Mikels is a Vegas institution, and he and the local…
A House On A Haunted Hill
As a former English major, I couldn’t resist going to see the new version of Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. For those who can accept movies without a single bare breast or car crash, it’s a rare…
Bloodfist
A recent slide-show on Salon.com, entitled “The Best Remakes of All-Time,” chronicles movies that got better when their plots were re-imagined by later filmmakers. Like David Cronenberg’s chilling 1986 update of the old Vincent Price shocker, The Fly. Or the…
Warwick Davis
So—Harry Potter mania is upon us again. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, a pantheon of English actors take their final bows as characters in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. This seems a fitting time to salute one…
Iron Man 3 New Villian
Remember how the primary problem with Iron Man 2 was that there were too many villains clogging up the works, and how we’ve hoped over and over again that Iron Man 3 director Shane Black would learn from that mistake…
Whedon Torn
Before a movie opens, everyone involved is usually understandably wary about talking sequels– even when it’s something like The Avengers, which had the makings of a mega-hit well before it opened at $200 million North America alone. But The Los…
Anne Francis
One tall, cool drink of water, the beautiful, curvaceous, mole-lipped Anne Francis got into show business quite early in life. She was born Anne Lloyd Francis on September 16, 1930, in Ossining, New York (which is near Sing Sing prison),…