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…
The Angry Man: John Waters
John Waters, the writer and director who emerged from the midnight movie circuit of the 1970s, has earned his status as a social critic. In 13 feature films, including “Pink Flamingos” and “Hairspray,” he gleefully presents depraved characters undermining a…
New Faces Of Evil
Contrived in its storytelling and finally unsatisfying, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s “Intruders” nevertheless has some genuinely frightening moments. How could you not when your spooky goblin is a plastic coat with a hood, work gloves and boots for hands and feet…
Classic 3D
There’s a time warp taking place at the multiplex, where past hits have been creeping back onto the big screen in an apparent bid to cash in on audience nostalgia and the 3D craze. James Cameron’s 3D reworking of “Titanic”…
Drive Ins In Peril
Running the snack-stand cash register at the Blue Fox Drive-in Theater, owner Darrell Bratt knows that every penny he earns will matter when it comes to the day his operation has to make the transition from traditional film to digital….
Barbarella: What to Think?
If you are in the right mood, BARBARELLA can be viewed as an amusing piece of campy silliness. If you aren’t in the right mood, in may come off as a stupefyingly insipid piece of soft-core almost-but-not-quite-porn. BARBARELLA was pretty…