Loron Hays

More creative than it is philosophical (even though it really, really wants to be both), Tomorrowland ’s future-bound trajectory resides inside an adventure that recalls the type of kid-against-adult...
Long before the Fast & Furious gang was granted freedom from their past criminal activity for assisting the feds, famed film producer/director Roger Corman introduced audiences to a group of war crimi...
A classic black-and-white film from the deluge of science fiction movies produced during the late 1950s finally finds its way onto blu-ray. Independently produced, It! The Terror From Beyond Space rem...
Holy Shit, Mr. Roger Corman. Holee Shite. You are a God among mere mortal men. Seriously. Bloody Mama , starring Shelly Winters, would have been your masterpiece if your filmography and genre-hopping...
While never a cult classic, Satan’s Blade is the textbook definition of a cult film. L. Scott Castillo Jr.’s movie reads, bleeds, and leads with its shoestring budget, amateur acting, and familiarity...
The collection coveted by many a sci-fi fan has finally arrived courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Originally inspired by spacey Mormon theology concerning a planet named Kolob and the...
Now, THIS is how you restart a stalled franchise. Violent, gritty, and powerful, Mad Max: Fury Road is one hell of an over-the-top thrill ride. Imagine the western attitude of Red Dead Revolver mashin...
Ray Milland steps into the obsessive role Vincent Price normally played for American International Pictures in Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial . While that makes th...
Writer, director, producer Roger Corman, the celebrated King of the B-movie, has very rarely let me down as a member of his audience. I found his book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Nev...
Old hat. Battered suitcase. Duffle coat. Marmalade. Paddington Bear has been a fixture in children’s literature since 1958. The character hasn’t always been fashionable, mind you, but he has always be...
Produced and directed by Aaron K. Carter, Dead Kansas is the current darling of the underground zombie genre. The horror-comedy is as independently spirited as modern filmmaking gets. It’s raw, comica...
Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoo...
There is a robust earnestness surrounding Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke that, to this day, remains praiseworthy. While Warner Bros does the film a favor with this freshly minted blu-ray release, the film...
“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. To me that was better than being president of the United States. To be a gangster was to own the world.” t seems rather daunting. Writi...
Getting Vincent Price out of retirement was no easy task. The boils and ghouls over at Scream Factory have assembled a collection of supplemental material to accompany their release of 1987’s From a W...