Suck
It all starts when a toothy vampire (Dimitri Coats) wanders into a club to catch a set by a broken down bar band called (ironically) The Winners and decides that bass playing babe Jennifer (Jessica Pare) is just his type….
Men With Brooms
Men With Brooms, directed by Paul Gross; starring Paul Gross, Leslie Nielsen, Molly Parker, James Allodi, Peter Outerbridge and Jed Rees. Running time: 101 minutes. Coliseum Calgary, Crowfoot Crossing, Market Mall, Paramount Chinook, Plaza Theatre, SilverCity Country Hills, Sunridge Spectrum,…
Mystery Science Theater 3000
ans of snarky humour will appreciate this four-disc set of the beloved cult comedy which features an equal mix of Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson-hosted episodes. Their wisecracking barbs are thrown at a diverse mix of films, including the 1948…
10 Terminator Movies
Everyone loves a good Terminator, particularly those fly-by-night movie studios whose livelihoods come from hoodwinking audience members too gullible for reality. For decades, slapping the word “Terminator” into your movie title has been all the rage — here are ten…
What’s new on DVD this week
This week’s new DVD releases range from a dance film remake to a brilliant premium cable series. n “Footloose,” Grade B: Hollywood’s trend of cannibalizing itself continues with an updated version of the 1984 Kevin Bacon-Lori Singer dance bonanza “Footloose.”…
Bad Ass
This Gadget Helpline blogger is a big fan of those lesser-known B-movie gems that can only be found by trawling the very bottom shelves of your local Blockbuster. It’s even better when you find out something off of the interwebs…
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Australian director whose films represent the very finest in what has come to be affectionately dubbed Ozploitation; that is, genre fare from the land down under. After seeing the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, and meeting the…
Anthony Zerbe
Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California. In 1958, Zerbe joined the California Air National Guard, transferring to the Air Force Reserve in 1960 without serving on active duty. He was discharged in 1968. In 1960, following his stint with…
Death Race 2000
I’ve ridiculed many a Roger Corman film in my time, but I have nothing but love for his 1975 B-movie triumph Death Race 2000 (although, to be fair, most of the credit should go to director Paul Bartel). In this…
Piranha 3-D
Back when James Cameron’s “Avatar” was released, there was a lot of talk about the future of 3-D movies – about how much better the process had become with high definition cameras, about how they didn’t simply throw things at…
Joan Taylor Dies
Actress Joan Taylor, best remembered for two sci-fi / horror B movies of the late 1950s, died March 4 in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles County. Taylor was 82. According to various sources, Taylor was born Rose Marie Emma in…
Goon
Fighting in hockey has always been a contentious issue, but Goon arrives in theatres at a particularly controversial time, as the news media has turned its eye on the darker side of the sport. Star players have been sidelined by…
Scare-meister Oren Peli
If you’ve been following ABC’s The River , you know some messed up stuff has been happening ever since the crew of the Magus set out to find Dr. Emmet Cole. In an effort to find out what awaits them…
Movie posters set to bring $250,000
The Berwick Discovery of Lost Movie Posters – a trove of 33 classic and incredibly rare posters dating back as far as 1930 – many examples of which were thought to be lost for all time, ranging in value from…
Robert B Sherman RIP
One half of the Sherman Brothers songwriting team, the legendary Disney musicals composer died today. We look back at his greatest movie hits, including classics such as I Wanna Be Like You and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Robert B Sherman…
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS TRAILER 1957 ROGER CORMAN
Theatrical trailer for the Roger Corman-directed cult science-fiction classic, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, starring Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan and Russell Johnson. One of legendary filmmaker “B” movie producer Corman’s most memorable films told the frightening tale of a group…
No Murray No Ghostbusters
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Dan Aykroyd confirmed that Bill Murray will not be a part of a movie that’s never going to happen, Ghostbusters III. Thank God. Anyone who’s actually taken a peek at what Aykroyd had…
Are Germans Ready to Laugh at a Film About Nazis from Space?
When the kitschy sci-fi comedy Iron Sky is released in German cinemas this spring, it will pose a couple of interesting questions: Is the Internet offering a viable, new alternative for funding and producing movies? And, perhaps more intriguingly, are…
Trumbull talks filmmaking
The role of the “special effects man” has become a dominant and integral one in modern filmmaking. What used to be the hallmark of a B-movie has become the key for box-office success. Last Friday afternoon, special effects pioneer Douglas…
TheSadist/The Thrill Killers: A Noisejunkie Review
picked “The Sadist” and “The Thrill Killers” together for a few reasons. One is because they both feature dangerous psychos on the loose. And another, more important reason is that they’re two of my all-time favorite B-movies and they represent…