Jersey Shore Shark Attack
If you like “Jersey Shore” and Syfy’s ridiculous, low-budget B-movies starring Z-listers, then prepare for your newest obsession: “Jersey Shore Shark Attack.” It’s the latest in Syfy’s pop culture-mining made-for-TV movies, and it features this line: “There are white-finned killer…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The sun was just about to set over Lake Pontchartrain on a humid Louisiana day last May when Abraham Lincoln was summoned into action in a grassy field to wrestle to the hard, unforgiving ground the murderous nemesis who took…
Chinese Ironman 3
It’s not surprising that Hollywood studios want a bigger presence in the Chinese movie market. Chinese audiences spent $2B going to the movies last year and have shown a hunger for US movies — the 3-D re-release of Titanic made…
New Maniac Cop
Nicolas Winding Refn made his name with stylish, arthouse-friendly spins on lurid B-movie material with films like Pusher, Bronson, and, of course, Drive. Now the Daily Grindhouse (via Badass Digest) reports that he may lend some of that same postmodern…
Ginger Snaps
It’s interesting to see when a horror movie gets labeled ” legitimate” by the press. In the case of Ginger Snaps, much ballyhoo was made by the alternative weeklies about how this kind of horror movie was “acceptable” because it…
Ghostkeeper
Shot in the picturesque winter wonderland of Lake Louise, Alberta, Ghostkeeper quite easily could have been one of the defining Canadian horror films of the 1980s. Taking its premise from the North American Indian legend of the Wendigo (or “Windigo,”…
One Smart Horror Flick
We know what you’re thinking: Based on its somewhat routine commercials and trailer, The Cabin in the Woods looks like your basic rehashing of everything from Evil Dead to Friday the 13th. Well, guess what? You’ve fallen directly into director/co-writer…
Battleship
Imagine how you would feel when you are treated to a movie where there is a lot of explosion, lots and lots of noise and a greater magnitude of bullets and cannon shots flying around the place but then you…
Cheese Whiz
ONE can always count on European movie magnate Luc Besson to inject an international flavour into action-filled screen projects. In Lockout, the French producer of Taken and Transporter gives us an Aussie leading man sent into space by a Swede…
James Cameron On and On
It’s tempting to say that James Cameron gives his fans that sinking feeling. After all, he recently descended to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, in a submarine of his own devising, to explore the ocean at its deepest point….
R.I.P. Robert Fuest
On 21 March 2012, the British horror cinema lost of one of its most interesting and distinctive talents, director Robert Fuest. Although his association with the genre was very brief, he achieved cult status for directing two very popular slices…
Springfield Is In Oregon
The Springfield that exists in the mind of Matt Groening is a kind of American everything — hick pit stop, rosy-cheeked Rockwellian font of family values, cesspool of corruption, ethnic melting pot, boomtown gone to rust. It’s what the creator…
Attack The Block
When Attack the Block hit American cinema screens last summer distributor Sony Pictures only gave it a limited release that, had it made lots and lots of money in its initial scant locations, probably would have been expanded. I have…
Loockout Delivers The Goods
The funniest moment in Lockout, especially in hindsight, is a credit that appears which states that the film is ‘based on an original idea by Luc Besson.’ Written and directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, the film is…
The Pom Pom Girls
Bold, brash, and full of other peoples sticky goo, the characters that inhabit the lackadaisical world of The Pom Pom Girls (a.k.a. Lâche-moi les baskets and Las chicas del Pom Pom) are social misfits of the highest order. Whether stealing…
Earl
In 1973, Earl Owensby saw “Walking Tall” at the movies and was inspired. The film was shot in McMinnville, Tenn., and Owensby started thinking that movies could be shot in the Carolinas. Owensby was in his 30s and designed tools…
Celebrating The B’s
The Hollywood Film Festival, presented by STARZ, will mark its return on October 22, 2008, to the state-of-the-art ArcLight Theatres in Hollywood for a twelfth annual, weeklong series of screenings, seminars, competitions, awards and a special presentation of “Genre Cinema.”…
Bond Fibbed
The myth here wasn’t so much that the Goldfinger actress (Shirley Eaton) had died but that it was possible to die as her character Jill Masterson had: skin asphyxiation. After Masterson defected from her boss, Auric Goldfinger, to be with…
Jaws Heading To Blu-Ray
Though it’s credited as giving birth to the modern summer movie blockbuster, for the last 15 years Jaws has been as much a staple of basic cable programming as Law & Order re-runs. Many have only seen the shark-infested thriller…
Macon County Line
One of the great independent movies of the 1970s, Macon County Line transcends the “redneck nightmare” genre simply by making its characters fully-rounded human beings. Two brothers, Chris and Wayne Dixon (played by real-life brothers Alan and Jesse Vint), are…