Joan Crawford. Her name alone invokes images of all sorts. F. Scott Fitzgerald considered her THE ORIGINAL flapper. She was a dancer, a radio talent, an actress, but, above everything else, she was a...

Think you know westerns? If you haven’t seen High Noon , then you are two boots short of a genuine cowboy outfit. In 1952, this “little” film defied the genre and saved all its bullet-slinging action...

It is essentially a cheaper version of Ridley Scott’s Alien , but underwater. That’s the best description of The Rift (aka Endless Descent ). This knock-off is only one of the several underwater explo...

When it comes to the history of horror, there are few years as important as 1942. That was the year RKO switched gears and turned away from artists like Orson Welles. They pulled The Magnificent Amber...

We are entering the season of the horror film, Ghouls and Boils. What fun! With each minute ticking past the dog days of summer, the public’s tolerance for all things disturbing grows. And I LOVE it....

Hilarious. That’s one word to describe the outrageous events in this cult flick. Another words would be awful. Put the two together and you have a recipe for immortality. So bad it’s good! Operating a...

Six college students. A station wagon. An archaeological dig. And a tent. Those are the elements at play in 1983's uber-bloody Scalps . Written and directed by Fred Olen Ray ( Deep Space ), this effec...

It is time, my friends, to go back to the woods. The reclusive Blair Witch has returned. It seems she never left the Black Hills Forest. While it may have taken 16 years to get a proper sequel to 1999...

Well, how neat-o is this, B-movie lovers?! Mad Max meets lasers … in 3-D! That’s the best way to describe this low-grade attempt to cash in on one of the most epic action flicks of my youth, The Road...

Cellblock D. That’s where the best women are. According to Makillers (aka 12 Wild Women ), an ultra low budget film from director David Prior and American International Pictures, when it comes to asse...

Gothic horror gets its kink on in 1962’s The Horrible Dr. Hichcock . This is one of the movies that you really have to wonder how in the hell it got made. Like ever. Like ever ever. Directed by Riccar...

Beheadings! Bosoms! Blood! Welcome to the dark side of the 1950s. Made for a mere $29000 in 1959, The Monster of Piedras Blancas looks like a million bucks in high-definition in 2016. Down with the fu...

Perhaps there is no other movie that best exemplifies the highs and lows of the 1980s than 1989's Road House . It's got mullets, monster trucks, martial arts, naked chicks, big hair, and a bunch of wh...

When it comes to b-grade entertainment, there is literally NOTHING quite like 1987’s Blood Rage . As ballsy as it is shoddy, this poorly acted slasher is in fact quite effective in is delivery of a tw...

The border. Joni Mitchell sang about it. Cormac McCarthy’s prose is filled with its beauty. As a nation, we are obsessed with its divide. For Austin filmmaker Greg Kwedar, borders are to be explored b...