( Read more... )

I had always seen the box for Eyes of Fire at the video store back in the day, but I never bothered to rent it. When I saw the awesome trailer for it on Trailer Trauma 3, I knew I had to track it down. Now that I’ve seen it, I’m pretty disappointed. Nearly all the money shots are in the trailer. If you want to save yourself eighty-five minutes ( Read more... )

There are a lot of words to describe Frank Zappa. Genius. Madman. Anarchist. None of those labels really do him justice. He was a man of enormous talent, and as this documentary points out; many contradictions ( Read more... )

Everyone I talked to about this movie didn’t like it, but I dug it, especially in retrospect. I will say that it does get a bit dull in spots as it goes on, rambling from one long-winded conversation to the next. There was no reason for it to be two hours long either. I can tell that writer/director Richard Linklater loves his characters so much ( Read more... )

The infamous picture of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon shaking hands is one of the best known photographs ever taken. It’s so famous that it inspired not one, but two movies on the subject. Allan Arkush’s Elvis Meets Nixon was highly entertaining and I was hoping for good things from Elvis and Nixon, especially since you have the magnetic ( Read more... )

One of the many motifs in director Jean Rollin’s work is a portrayal of two young girls as they go on a strange, almost dreamlike journey together. This motif appears in films like Requiem for a Vampire, The Iron Rose, Schoolgirl Hitchhikers, and Two Orphan Vampires. The Escapees likewise follows this formula and it’s one of Rollin’s most ( Read more... )

Fred F. (The Giant Claw) Sears directed this solidly entertaining sci-fi epic about invading spacemen. Hugh Marlowe stars as a scientist who sends up space rockets that mysteriously keep getting shot down. He receives a strange signal that he is unable to decipher. Naturally, it’s the aliens saying they are on their way to make peace with us. ( Read more... )

Well, here’s another crappy found footage horror flick, and one that volleys back and forth between security footage and camcorder footage to boot. Three movies into the 31 Movies of Horror-Ween and I’m already starting to crack. If this is what the rest of the month is going to be like, I might as well throw in the towel now ( Read more... )

Having already made documentaries on Australian exploitation movies (Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!) and Pilipino exploitation movies (Machete Maidens Unleashed), filmmaker Mark Hartley now turns his attention to legendary exploitation producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, whose Cannon Films reigned supreme in the ( Read more... )

Oscar Isaac is a reclusive computer billionaire living in a security-heavy fortress out in the middle of nowhere with his robot girl, played by Alicia Vikander. He invites a coder from his company (Domhnall Gleeson) back to his lab as a part of an experiment to see if the robo-babe’s A.I. is up to snuff. Gleeson eventually learns that Isaac ( Read more... )