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...
September 10th, 1993. It was my senior year of high school. On that day, I had just turned 18 and had no idea that my life was soon to changed by a television show. It was a Friday night. I should hav...
Charlie Chaplin had his pathos. The melancholy Buster Keaton chased his inventive nature for great sight gags. So where does that leave the third clown of the silent era of film, the beloved Harold Ll...
The Big Short isn’t so much a movie as it is the continuation of a movement designed to wake America the fuck up. Don’t believe me? Go watch Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes or J .C. Chandor’s Margin Call bec...
How well do you know the people around you? I mean, really, really, really know them? Those closest to you, in fact? That’s the question Goodnight Mommy dares to ask its viewers. Trust me when I sugge...
It was only a matter of time. Poe couldn’t be the sole horror author to get ALL the attention from the cinema. And so, when it came to a new round of anthology items to consider, Vincent Price found h...
Bela Lugosi. George Zucco. John Carradine. Why wouldn’t a Horror Hound NOT want to check out director William Beaudine’s Voodoo Man ? Of course, there are plenty of things wrong with this unintentiona...