Super-8 Skeletons
Home movies were a fixture when she was growing up. Her father had a 16mm movie camera (with sound!), and many was the night when he would set up the projector in the basement and unspool family vacations, graduations, holidays…
Glue Man
The Wisconsin Film Festival promises many nuanced, complex characters, but the subject of Glue Man is insidiously flat, generic, a blank slate. In the short film by Wisconsin natives Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, creators of Found Footage Festival, and…
The Heroine Revisted
KATNISS EVERDEEN, the 16-year-old “Hunger Games” warrior who has torn through the box office, is one of the most radical female characters to appear in American movies. The film’s stunning success can partly be explained by the print sales of…
Sword and Sandal Movies
I come to praise Sword & Sandal movies — not to bury them. But with Wrath of the Titans and the Sword & Sandal/sci-fi mash-up John Carter not exactly setting the world on fire — along with recent disappointments like…
John Landis
John Landis started as a mailroom clerk at 20th Century Fox, and worked in Europe for several years as a stunt man — you can see him shot or maimed in such late-1960s fare as Charge of the Light Brigade,…
Men In Black And B Style Movie Monsters
Men in Black III will feature “retro” aliens from the past, according to the film’s lead make-up artist. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are returning for the third film of the sci-fi franchise, which will see Agent J (Smith)…
Hunger Games’ Hits $251 Mil
Greek deities and Snow White were no match for The Hunger Games at the domestic box office. Hunger Games towered over new entries Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror in its second weekend, grossing $61.1 million and pushing its…
Mythic tale of survival roars into film festival
American Benh Zeitlin’s feature will show alongside a host of foreign and local films, including Berlin FIPRESCI winner Tabu, directed by Miguel Gomes, and Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Neighbouring Sounds, which took out the main prize at the International…
From Crave Online: Seven Movie Plot Holes That Drive Us Nuts
Now is time to put on your nit-picking socks, movie fans, as this week’s installment of B-Movies Extended (which is, in case this is your first go-‘round with us, a special addendum to CraveOnline’s very own The B-Movies Podcast, which…
Totally TOTAL RECALL
Sony Pictures has released the trailer for “Total Recall,” the remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic sci-fi film. It just might make you forget about that version though. This one stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho…
Hunger Beats Titans
It’s fair to say that no one was expecting particularly great things for Wrath Of The Titans, particularly in light of its dismal predecessor. But remarkably, Wrath managed to improve on just about every aspect of Clash Of The Titans,…
B Movie Orchestra
Nine men in a dark suit with a black tie noose in a single node and a woman (the other was sick) with a short dress and no panties. B-movie orchestra: a trip along, let’s say, 40 years b-films. If…
Danger 5
HITLER’S plan has been foiled again. His mutant lizard soldiers lie dead all around him. The Danger 5 team have him in their sights, but as they raise their guns, the villain escapes by throwing himself through a window. A…
Exploding B’s
Michael BiehnS aturday at the International Horror and Science Fiction Film Festival was cult horror movie showcase time with a slew of well known genre actors and directors adding to the fun. Low budget independent B-movies were the focus in…
Shark Night 3D
When a studio refuses to screen a film for critics in advance, it usually means one thing: the movie’s terrible. That’s okay, though; there’s often nothing more fun than watching trashy action. But the one crime a B-movie should never…
Jon Favreau
Initially an indie film favorite, actor Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a writer/producer/director. Of Jewish…
The Wild West Of Video On Demand
Stealthily populating itself on TV menus, video-on-demand has quietly seeped into our homes, remaking movie distribution with little fanfare. Once an afterthought, VOD has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, reoriented release strategy and been seen as a panacea to…
Cinema Wasteland
STRONGSVILLE — Twice a year the bloody carpet is rolled out as film fans from all over the country gather for Cinema Wasteland’s Drive-In Movie & Memorabilia Expo — a celebration of horror, grindhouse and B movies. The creepy convention…
A B Movie For The 21st Century
“Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same” is a picture out of its time — a ’50s B-movie turned loose in the 21st century with a contemporary twist that never wold have played 60 years ago. Aiming for Ed Wood territory,…
RiffTrax
It’s surprising that a movie set on a scenic island populated almost entirely by attractive young women wearing only leopard-print bikinis could be this bad. It has so much going for it. But in this case, the movie is “Frankenstein…