B Movie Celebration In High Gear
inShare It`s time for the 6th Annual B-Movie Celebration in Columbus, Indiana. It`s time once again to gather and pay tribute to B-Movies past, present and future. As we all know, the B-Movie has had a long and humble tradition…
Gaga Goes Rodriguez
Lady Gaga will make her acting debut in Machete Kills from Robert Rodriguez. Tweeted Rodriguez: “I just finished working with @LadyGaga on @MacheteKills , she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away!” Tweeted Gaga today: “Yes its true, I…
Lowest Grossing Movie Ever
In 2006, the top-grossing film at the box office was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which played at 4,133 theaters across the United States during its five-month run and earned $423 million. The lowest-grossing film at the box…
Free B movies at Beacon Hill
With the onset of summer comes a yearly tradition at Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park. It’s time to grab your blanket, a flashlight and some snacks and head down to the Cameron Bandshell in Beacon Hill Park for the Victoria Film…
Kane No Longer Top’s
We hope somewhere in movie-character heaven Charles Foster Kane still finds comfort in the memory of his childhood sled, because for the first time in 50 years Citizen Kane doesn’t top the Sight & Sound poll. Every ten years since…
Assassin’s Bullet
Christian Slater plays a retired FBI agent in Assassin’s Bullet who happens to be hanging around Sofia, Bulgaria, when he’s asked (by Donald Sutherland, as the U.S. ambassador) to unmask the vigilante who’s offing high-priority terrorists. The cockeyed C-quality B…
B-MOVIE BINGO: LADY DRAGON
LADY DRAGON (1992) Showing Tuesday 8/7/2012 at The Hollywood Theatre Cynthia Rothrock plays Kathy Galagher, an ass-beating lady who lives in a rat infested hellhole in Indonesia and fights sweaty dudes for money. However, she is also a retired CIA…
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
Size has been one of the most popular themes in monster movies, especially those from my favorite era, the 1950s. The premise is invariably to take something out of its usual context–make people small or something else (gorillas, grasshoppers, amoebae,…
The Locust’s
Somebody got new-wavey B-movie camp in with my grindcore. Somebody got grindcore in with my new-wavey B-movie camp! No matter one’s perspective, The Locust is a band so unique and without peer that listeners are hard pressed to forget their…
Red Westerns
So, you’re a true Western aficionado. You’ve seen every John Wayne film, every Joel McCrea and Audie Murphy B-movie, and the spaghetti flicks from Leone. You’ve watched the silent classics and the singing cowboy adventures, the serials and the TV…
Retro A GoGo
Classic films on Portland screens, August 3 – 9 “Conan the Barbarian” The future governor of California plays a sword-weilding barbarian — as good a credential for public office as any, most likely — in this late-night screening hosted by…