Loron Hays

Sonny Boy is, thankfully, a relatively unknown movie. I say thankfully because if more people knew about director Robert Martin Carrol’s screwed up flick, there would be hell to pay when it came to mo...
The skadoosh has returned. After a five-year break, things effortlessly click back into place for the third (and more probable than not) final Kung Fu Panda movie. It is an animated feature that hugs...
Let’s go ahead and give the British the coveted award for best werewolf movie in quite a long while. It is much deserved. Howl , directed by make-up effects wiz Paul Hyett ( The Seasoning House ), is...
Warner Bros – as part of their Archive Collection – simply do not realize or appreciate some of the lesser-known gems they have on their hands. With the bare-boned blu-ray release of The Ice Pirates ,...
Sinister 2 is not a good film. At all. To be clear, it lacks the spark that made the original flick a better than the average horror offering. Screenwriters Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill got...
It is simply impossible to write about the events in The Boy without breaking into a serious case of the giggles. The absurdity of a young woman babysitting a doll in a mansion that just drips with go...
When we get to the films of director Frederick R. Friedel let it be known that we are in very special B-movie territory. Inspired equally by the eye of Orson Welles and the taste of Roger Corman, Frie...
There is something powerful when science fiction goes into B-movie mode and sneaks up on audiences with head-spinning moments and WTF endings. There’s a free-spirited agent driving these movies that g...
Writer/director Woody Allen continues to make moviemaking look easy. While a shade darker in tone than his last few releases, Irrational Man is still 100% Allen in its themes and execution. The title...
South Korea’s first entry into the kaiju movie genre is probably the sole reason to ever pick up a copy of Kino-Lorber’s 1080p treatment of Yongary, Monster from the Deep and that truly is ONLY if you...
…in which the origins of American International Pictures are unearthed… B-movies, quite literally, do not get any worse than with the events depicted inside The Beast of 10,000 Leagues . Born from Ame...
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu returns to cinemas this year with a harrowing journey into the bruised and bloodied heart of the relatively undiscovered landscape of the American territories in t...
James Brolin. A demonic car. Some Native American warnings. And the arid American desert. What else do you need to have one helluva damn good time? Nothing. And that's exactly the territory of The Car...
When you get to a B-movie as aptly titled as The Brain that Wouldn’t Die , you – of course – have to embrace disbelief with open arms. If you do, you won’t exactly be disappointed with the results as...
Mad Max: Fury Road was chosen as the Best Film of 2015 by The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the 2nd oldest critics group in the country. The winners were announced this afternoon during a ceremony...