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We lost the definitive guitar god of the post-Hendrix
era when Eddie Van Halen passed away on October 6th, 2020. It’s not an
overstatement to say that he reinvented the sound of hard rock as well as what
we would […]

At first glimpse, the premise for The Entity seems so tacky that it could only be lurid exploitation:
simply put, it’s a movie about a woman who becomes the sexual target of a
poltergeist. However, if you’re […]

Mandingo became a big box office hit in 1975. Even as the critics rejected it, audiences flocked to see a well-made and powerfully acted film that explored the racially charged history of the Old South in ways […]

If you’re a Lucio Fulci fan, there’s a strange poignancy
to watching The House By The Cemetery
today. This film found him in the middle of what was arguably the last era of
his career, a time where his projects […]

With All The World’s A Stage, Rush established a pattern of making every fifth album in their Mercury Records run a live album. This pattern was continued in 1981 by the release of Exit… Stage Left, a second […]

The problem inherent in the word mockumentary is that it
leads the audience to expect outright mockery of the film’s subject matter. It
doesn’t leave a lot of room for whimsy or finding the charm in things that […]

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 prospective buyer is sweet-talked, subjected […]

Just two weeks ago, Schlockmania covered the first two installments of Popoff’s Top 20, a new series of list-styled essays delivered in eBook form by Martin Popoff that offer a playlist with commentary for a […]

If 2112 is the album that proved Rush could have a career, Moving Pictures is the album that ensured they would stay in the business on a long-term basis. A lot of bands get lazy or lose focus once they’ve […]

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 or two from overseas and cover a hefty spot […]

There are certain movies that become massive hits without ever earning respect from critics or the public at large. One could argue that this has always been Hollywood’s stock-in-trade.  It’s nice to win Oscars […]

Between his countless publications, podcasts and YouTube appearances, it’s hard to determine if Martin Popoff ever sleeps. It seems like there’s something new from him a couple of times a week. Case in point: he […]

As the ’80s dawned, progressive rock was becoming an endangered species. Bands were either fading out or knuckling under to record company pressure to find a more commercial, radio-friendly version of their […]

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 reverse-engineered into existence.  Planet Of The Apes […]

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, but his biggest claim to fame was his work as
the […]

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 fully prepared. The latter parts of the prior film […]