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Foundational Cinema

Month: March 2013

American Hercules:Steve Reeves

Born in Montana on January 21, 1926, actor and bodybuilder Steve Reeves moved to California at the age of ten with his widowed mother. He cultivated an interest in bodybuilding while in his teens; by the time he was 17…

Night Of The Lepus

You know what they say about bunny-rabbits and procreation, right? Well, this delightful and typically stupid early 70’s creature-feature shows that it is true! Killer bunnies are coming! What starts as a seemingly intellectual and serious-toned ecological flick about a…

Ms. Julie Newmar

She was born in Los Angeles as Julia Chalene Newmeyer, the eldest of three children born to Don and Helen (née Jesmer) Newmeyer. Her father was head of the Physical Education Department at Los Angeles City College and had played…

Uwe Boll

Hollywood often complains about box office slumps. They blame piracy, they blame DVD sales, they blame anyone and anything but themselves. You see Hollywood’s a bit like North Korea, if they ever admitted that the regime they run was flawed…

Night Slaves

Night Slaves is based on a novel by Jerry Sohl, a veteran TV writer for Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Outer Limits, among others (including the original Star Trek). Familiar plot elements from those worthy programs are all here:…

Riff Trax

Few can riff as well — or as lucratively — as the alumni of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the 1990s cult TV show about a human and his robot buddies skewering B-movies while stuck in space. And former host Michael…

B Movies in Ireland

MONSTER FLICKS, gory horrors, B-movies, and cult films will be the order of the day at the first NUI Galway Film Society film festival from Monday April 1 to Wednesday 3. Entitled Release the B’s, the festival will screen Irish…

Mad Max Lives

Dr. George Miller’s low budget Mad Max franchise impacted on Australian culture and altered the perception of Australia and Australians overseas in a way that no other Australian film had done. The films explores themes such as ‘man and the…

Weng Weng Lives

Australian filmmaker Andrew Leavold is on a quest. For the past 6 years and armed with a camera he’s been on this quest, searching for Filipino cult movie superstar Weng Weng, and shooting a documentary along the way. Now, armed…

Dennis Hopper:Legend

When Dennis Hopper first arrived in California from Dodge City, Kan., at 17, he found work at the La Jolla Playhouse. He cleaned dressing rooms “like a stable boy,” writes biographer Tom Folsom. “What a glamorous job that was,” recalled…

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The World Needs More Talking Cat Movies

The film revives the B-movie genre by embracing the qualities of many 1990 straight-to-video flicks. If you’ve ever pushed a VHS into a VCR, this movie will grip you with nostalgia. The movie revolves around two families gripped with extremely…

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Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes

A helpful pre-credit scrawl indentifies the Lost Coast area of Northern California as a hotbed of reported Sasquatch activity. You would think a quasi-documentary about the culture of Bigfoot hunters and doubters would be a watchable B movie. But why…

The Age of Dinosaurs

The latest film coming out of the Asylum, is The Age of Dinosaurs. At it’s heart, it sounds like a cautionary tale about man’s hubris. Surrounding that heart though is big meaty shell of dino action. “Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology,…

Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales

FEARnet announced today it has made a deal with Dead Rabbit Films to acquire the domestic rights to Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales, a brand new anthology series. Ten episodes of the series of short films, written and directed by Tom…

Popcorn

When a group of film students need to raise some cash, they organise a horror movie festival at a run-down theatre, offering fright-fans a selection of old monster movies—complete with their original promotional gimmicks! As a packed house enjoys a…

Podcast: Roger Corman And William Shatner At Comic Con 2012

On this podcast Roger Corman and William Shatner talk about their careers with host Kevin Smith at a panel done at Comic Con 2012. You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by clicking on the play button…

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The Curse of the Remake

While Steven Spielberg and George Lucas changed big budget cinema forever in the 1970s, it was in the proceeding decade that the blockbuster was successfully packaged and replicated by others. And, even though Hollywood’s output in the 1980s was patchy,…

Escape Re-Boot

Rumors and plans for an Escape From New York reboot have been circling for years, but today it seems like the first steps of a more motivated production are being taken. After the planned remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From…

Post Impact

The 2004 “Post Impact” sounded like an entertaining low budget disaster movie to watch.  Unlike most B movies beginning with an immediate disaster, kill or nudity shot we’re given the story and learn about a few characters prior to the…

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Five Quick Questions with Cleve Hall

Joe Hollow’s BLOODSTRUCK! Cleve Hall started going to the movies at the age of two, so he was destined to work in the business.  Once he saw “Godzilla vs. The Thing” his destiny was sealed.  Cleve has had an exciting…

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