The Stuff
A workman discovers some mushy white foam at an petroleum refinery in Alaska, and he gets the urge to try it and surprisingly it’s tastes really good. Soon enough, it’s a top-selling American dessert product known as “The Stuff” and…
The Boondock Saints Game
The film’s storyline followed two Irish brothers in Boston who, after becoming entangled with the local Russian Mafia, set out to rid the city of its criminal faction. Actors Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus and David Della Rocco will lend…
2nd Trailer Released For Prometheus
Much like the run up to its first trailer in December, the upcoming second trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has its own 20-second teaser. It features a few new blink-and-you’ll-miss-them glimpses of the film, primarily of the vast-foreboding-alien-planet-landscape variety. Everything…
Iron Sky Review
There are no half-measures when it comes to moon Nazis. The very phrase “moon Nazi” invites laughter. There’s no room for serious consideration, and even biting satire can be a stretch. It’s a goofy premise ripe for B-movie fun, and…
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Aumont was born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons in Paris, the son of Suzanne (née Cahen), an actress, and Alexandre Salomons, owner of La Maison du Blanc (a linen department store). His mother’s uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr (died 1942)….
John Carter Bombs
“John Carter,” Disney’s $250 million sci-fi spectacular, floundered at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, pulling in only $30.6 million, according to studio estimates. Universal’s “The Lorax,” a $70 million animated picture in its second week of release,…
Southend Gangster
A FILM director has caused a stir after labelling Southend “a sort of low-rent English Las Vegas – a Vegas of the Third World”. David Hughes, 37, the writer and director of a new British gangster film set in Southend,…
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was a major MGM star in the early 1940s. Among her movies at the studio were I Take This Woman, Boom Town, Comrade X, Ziegfeld Girl, and White Cargo. Her co-stars included Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable,…
Leonardo Cimino RIP
Obituaries are uncomfortable to write at the best of times. It’s only tougher when you realise how little you actually knew about the person in question. But while the late Leonardo Cimino may not exactly be a household name, mention…
Troma’s Fathers Day
Winnipeg collective Astron-6’s first feature, “Father’s Day,” is a gleefully tasteless quasi-grindhouse nasty that’s funnier than most of the many such parodic cheesefests that have been created since, well, “Grindhouse.” Though the result is inevitably hit-and-miss, its attention to retro…
John Carter
The Story “Our hero is John Carter, the Confederate Civil War veteran who strikes gold in the Arizona territory but who is whisked to the planet Barsoom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Barsoom is Mars by another name, and the…
B Movie Star Martha Stewart RIP
Actress Martha Stewart (photo, with Perry Como), a pretty blonde who had supporting roles in a handful of Fox movies of the ’40s, died of “natural causes” in Northeast Harbor, Maine, last February 25. She was 89. Needless to say,…
Tim Burton Exhibition
Peopled with lonely little monsters, dancing corpses and boggle-eyed creatures from the underworld, Tim Burton’s cult universe hits Paris this week with a show that journeys through his life’s work. Some 500 sketches — the starting point for all Burton’s…
The Cabin In The Woods
Much like homage to the classic Evil Dead, Cabin in the Woods is best explained as their own tagline describes: People go to a cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. But the movie is much more than that. Wish…
Island of the Cannibal Death Gods
As much as we all share our common love for all things horror, we also all have a heart and I’m sure you would like to help people less fortunate than yourself. Well, the guys behind the ultra low-budget b-movie,…
‘The Godfather’ hits 40
Leave the gun, take the cannoli, and make movie history: Forty years ago this week, “The Godfather” opened. And Francis Coppola’s masterpiece crime drama is still able to wrap you in a kiss-on-each-cheek embrace no film can match. It’s rare…
Charles Lamont
Charles Fred Lamont was a man of slightly mysterious origins. He was apparently born on May 5, 1895, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father’s last name was Ausmus, and his mother’s maiden name was Barenco. They were French actors from…
Machete Maidens Unleashed
Today’s Internet-savvy movie promotions seem mighty tame compared with the publicity tricks (vials of “green blood,” upchuck cups, slitherama, etc.) that lured thrill-hungry young audiences to fare such as Women in Cages, Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Night of…
Luis Bacalov
Sijbold Tonkens: How did your career start in the past as a film composer? I believe you started as Ennio Morricone did at RCA to work with pop stars in Italy like Gianni Morandi, Dino, Rita Pavone etc. Luis Bacalov:…
Casa de mi padre
The premises of a spaghetti western, a Spanish novella and Will Ferrell’s signature comedy all combine to make “Casa de mi padre,” Ferrell’s first foray into the Spanish-speaking world. Ferrell plays Armando Alvarez, a simple Mexican rancher who spends his…