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Here we are only a few weeks into the new television season and shows are already being cancelled. But there’s certainly nothing new to...
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Here we are only a few weeks into the new television season and shows are already being cancelled. But there’s certainly nothing new to...
Among the most curious subgenres in 1960s film is the “monster nudie.” This subgenre can be hard to define, since many films of the...
One of the most enjoyable subgenres of 1950s sci-fi film is the “Big Bug” subgenre, also known as the “Insect Fear” or “Giant Insect”...
The US Army (and the CIA) recruit a small group of outlaw bikers for a suicide mission behind enemy lines in Cambodia during the...
In my last column, I discussed Italy’s sword-and-sandal movies. These movies yielded to Italian (“Spaghetti”) Westerns by 1965. But the Westerns yielded to giallo...
Three titles from the Warner Archive today that might whet your appetite for Halloween. Confessions of an Opium Eater Warner Archive / September 25,...
1984 saw director Walter Hill’s ambitious rock n’roll fable Streets of Fire hit the screen. Set in, “another time and another place,” the film...
I watched Doctor Who for the first time last week. Is that shock on your face, my dear nerdlings? OK, I’ll let it wash...
Once again, I’ve pilfered the INSTANT WATCH avails to suggest some of the more interesting under-the-radar releases now streaming. Especially of note this month:...
“In a really f-cked up way, this is probably the most fun I’ve ever had…” Unfortunately, the age of mainstream Grindhouse cinema (If that...
“If I were you I’d run.” “If you were me, you’d be good looking…” The sadly underrated and forgotten 1997 Martial Arts fest Six...
Sean Hartter is a prolific comic book artist, illustrator, writer and musician hailing from Massachusetts. Among his many accomplishments and talents, Sean’s work has included writing and...
The Kuchar Brothers were (along with Kenneth Anger) among the earliest originators and innovators of what we now know think of as independent film. John Waters...
Walt Disney liked to appeal to the varying aspects of everyone’s internal self. Disneyland was built, for example, to appeal to the child in...
The re-release of William Lustig’s “Maniac’’ (1980), the notorious film in which a serial killer scalps women, is a chance to reevaluate shock value,...
I have this friend that periodically watches nothing but specific genres of movies he may have missed. Nothing goes unwatched, and everything gets explored...
By Tess Davidson I first became aware of Tess Davidson through her very funny tweets with such cult geniuses as Michael Rooker and James...
ACCUSATION: Craptacular demise. DEFENSE: He’ll be back. Here’s the deal. I finally sat down to watch, for the first time ever, the last major...
ACCUSATION: The Blah. DEFENSE: Gory gobs of goodness. Unlike the violent re-imaginings introducing today’s generation to horror movie “classics,” the 70s/80s approach to remakes...
This Saturday night, SyFy unleashes it’s next hybrid spectacular, Sharktopus! Director Declan O’Brien and star Eric Roberts discuss the project after the jump! ...
ACCUSATION: Alien rip-off DEFENSE: Alien:Forbidden World=Jaws:Piranha It came from Roger Corman (in case you couldn’t tell from the sexed-out nerd porn movie poster)! One...