Few things can make your skin crawl like trying to buy a
car at a car dealership. The process is as close to a criminal enterprise as
business laws allow: the ...
The 1980s, particularly their first half, were a golden
era for Italian genre productions. It was a time when a modestly-budgeted project
could get a name star...
The international popularity Planet Of The Apes film series with science fiction fans is all the more impressive when you learn that said series was largely re...
R.I.P., Frankie Banali. He was a well-traveled drummer
in the hard rock scene, doing professional work in both live and studio
settings for a variety of groups...
The success of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes demanded another sequel and this time, producer Arthur P. Jacobs and sequel screenwriter ace Paul Dehn were f...
The unlikely saga of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes began with a telegram from Arthur P. Jacobs, producer of the original Apes film series, to Paul Dehn, t...
Making a sequel to the Planet Of The Apes must have seemed inevitable and impossible all at once. The international success of a film with such a tantalizingly...
In 1968, you had two towering examples of big-budget Hollywood sci-fi. On one side, you had 2001: A Space Odyssey: intellectual, technically dazzling, artsy an...
Once the biker movie became a standard of the film
business in the late '60s, enterprising filmmakers at all levels of the
business put everything on a bike to...
Transport your mind back to the distant era called
"the mid-'80s." The VHS revolution was in full force in that glorious
time before Blockbuster took its ultim...
As the '70s gave way to the '80s, the writing was on the
wall for drive-in filmmakers. People were starting to watch movies at home via
VCRs and cable, major s...
One of the coolest and most progressive aspects of
International-Independent Pictures was their willingness to work with all sorts
of talent. Anyone from...
