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If they had wanted to, Rush could have easily coasted on the success of Moving Pictures. Its savvy blend of progressive mindset and accessible arena rock elements would have made a sturdy formula to follow to […]

One of the great things about watching old exploitation
film trailers is that they often give you a visceral sense of the place and
time that spawned their parent films. Exploitation filmmakers had to make […]

With Anthem, Martin Popoff initiated his ultimate Rush book project: a history of the band that mixes deep-dive explorations of each album and in-depth interviews drawn from a previously untapped archive of […]

Enzo G. Castellari was one of Italy’s great journeyman
directors during that ’60s to ’80s era when that country’s genre film mill was
at its most productive. His filmography from this era is packed with films […]

Bachman-Turner Overdrive didn’t score any hit singles or
albums post-1976 but their recording career continued on for another three
years, producing an album each year through the decade’s close. The first […]

E.C. Comics clearly had faith in their line of “New Trend” horror comics from the jump because they launched a third title one month after the first issues of Tales From The Crypt and Vault Of Horror. Haunt Of […]

Porn documentaries all really have the same basic things
to say: the business isn’t a pretty one, it takes a heavy toll on those
involved and the people involved often are grappling with demons. So why is
this […]

Here’s another jumbo helping of pop-friendly Canadian
boogie for you. This trio of albums captures the middle part of the band’s
career, including their last two charting studio albums and a lesser-known […]

Billy Fine racked up a half-dozen credits during the first half of the ’80s, either as producer or executive producer, on a set of films that were noteworthy VHS and cable favorites in their day. For example, you […]

One of the major appeals of Martin Popoff’s books on
hard rock and heavy metal is the fact that they primarily utilize new
interviews conducted by the author himself rather than relying entirely on
older books […]

Appreciating the work of Jesus Franco poses multiple
challenges. The first is that his filmography is massive, including some genres
that certain viewers refuse to watch (i.e. porn films and hardcore variants […]

Randy Bachman wanted to prove he was no flash-in-the-pan
after leaving the Guess Who. After a solo album and a country rock-ish outfit
called Brave Belt, he created Bachman-Turner Overdrive with fellow […]

Black Dynamite is the definitive blaxploitation parody: not only is it funny from start to finish but it actually manages to channel the genre it is sending up by taking on its stylistic quirks with sincere love […]

The
Readthru is designed to take you through the issue run of a comic book or
magazine. It will be an ongoing series of capsule review guides to famous
titles of yesteryear.

After a few horror-oriented tales […]

The world may be struggling with coronavirus but filmmakers carry on. Case in point: Christopher Bickel, the South Carolina-based filmmaker who made such a distinctive debut with The Theta Girl, wrapped […]

The second half of Van Halen’s “Roth Era”
delivered three albums that doubled as testaments to the mighty battle of wills
going on behind the scenes for the band’s destiny between guitar whiz Eddie Van
Halen and […]

Every horror fan has got their pet obscurities, those
little “deep cuts” of genre cinema that only the faithful know and
obsess over. Sometimes these films linger in the memory for nostalgic reasons
but there are […]

We’ve reached the point where the new Popoff’s Top 20
electronic essays by Martin Popoff have gone from new side-project to  supplementary body of work. Since
Schlockmania last posted about this series, he has […]

Adaptations of Stephen King novels have always been a
dicey proposition for horror fans.  His
often-cinematic premises seem tailor-made for silver screen success in theory
but many of them lose something in the […]