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Foundational Cinema

Month: June 2014

First Bananaman Poster

First introduced to the world back in 1980, the beloved Eric Wimp is about to get his big screen debut in next year’s Bananaman. Starting out life in Nutty, with later appearances in The Dandy and The Beano, Bananaman went…

Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys

[youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EKQwF6EcFqQ”] Starring Shannen Doherty (Beverley Hills 90210, Charmed) and the legendary Christopher Lloyd (‘Doc’ in the Back to the Future trilogy), Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys follows the terrorising tale of eel-like fish, lampreys, which wreak bloody…

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films

Both an affectionate tribute and a cautionary tale, “The Go-Go Boys” is a solid documentary that offers, as its subtitle promises, one version of the “inside story of Cannon Films.” Israeli helmer Hilla Medalia (“Dancing in Jaffa”) charts the careers…

Joe Dante talks ‘Gremlins,’

The beloved horror-comedy “Gremlins” might be turning 30 this year, but at a late afternoon screening at the fifth annual Hero Complex Film Festival in Hollywood, the film proved it can still cast a spell over viewers. Not that director…

Gojira (1954)

Director: Ishiro Honda Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka Writer(s): Ishiro Honda, Takeo Murata Released Date: November 3rd 1954 Appearing Monsters: Godzilla Also Released as: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (US) In the Spring of 1954, movie producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was going through…

David Michael Latt

David Michael Latt has no shame. The 48-year-old cofounder of The Asylum, a film studio in Burbank, California, that produces quickie, nano-budget fare such as Airplane vs. Volcano (starring Dean Cain and Robin Givens) and Transmorphers (starring no one), knows…

“The Orange Man”

A group of middle aged friends go on a camping trip, only to be hunted down by a sadistic maniac whose weapon of choice, is oranges. Aiming for quality is filmmaker Stephen Folker’s objective and the last several years Stephen…

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Vampire Sisters (2004)

I seems that I’m the first to comment on Vampire Sisters, OK IMDb’ers this is what I think… Vampire Sisters starts on a dark misty night, an unidentified man is running towards a large house & in pursuit are two…

The Alien Factor

After sitting through various badly drawn planets and star fields that comprise the opening sequence we are introduced to Rex Walker (Johnny Walker) and his girlfriend Mary Jane Carter (Eleanor Herman). They are sitting in his car in the middle…

Rulers of the City

Writer/director Fernando Di Leo chronologically made three of the most stupendously amazing “Poliziottesco” (hardcore Italian cop/gangster thrillers) milestones with “Milano Caliber .9”, “La Mala Ordina” and “Il Boss”. I respectively granted those films with rating 10/10, 9/10 and 9/10 ……

Adam Sandler’s new movie is a massive flop

I know, I know, wishful thinking. The grown man who acts like a pouty preteen has been counted out before — “That’s My Boy” was a flop — only to bounce back strong — “Grown Ups 2” was a huge…

Making A Boba Fett Movie

When I see discussions and speculations on what the “spin off” Star Wars movies will be about, every time I see a “Boba Fett movie would be awesome” “They have to do a Boba fett movie” I do nothing but…

Kill Bill 3 ?

“If there was something I would like to work on again, it would be Honshu’s movies, maybe. Or a horror movie, perhaps,” Quentin Tarantino told The Independent. The director who has been known for working on the serial killer film…