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As the midpoint of summer approaches, the need for forms
of entertainment that involve air conditioning grows greater and greater. One
of the finest is settling down for a double or triple-feature in front of […]

If there’s a label in the cult movie video world that
represents the concept of quality over quantity, it’s definitely Grindhouse
Releasing. Their catalog is a fraction of the size of its competitors but […]

It took a while for modern cult film fans to be able to accurately assess the worth of director Umberto Lenzi in the U.S.  During the VHS era, he was primarily known in this country for blunt-force shocks of […]

“I feel neglected, feel rejected/Living in the wrong time”: that was a line written and sung by Ian Hunter on Mott The Hoople’s Brain Capers album. It could be applied to a lot of bad breaks in their career. For […]

Now that its pay cable reign has come to an end, Game Of Thrones has carved out a place
in television history as one of its most beloved shows and also one of its most
controversial.  Adapted from George […]

June’s second and final installment of the AMG Dirty
Dozen has a special Far East theme, highlighting not only Chinese and Japanese
productions but also extending its reach as far as Indonesia and […]

Horror fans are mostly numb to the unending string of
reboots and remakes that modern Hollywood pumps out but the new Child’s Play managed to rise above the
status quo and inspire some genuine controversy. For […]

The phrase “rite of passage” is thrown around
with nostalgic abandon when people discuss the pop culture of their teen years
but it still means something when applied accurately. Such a phrase shouldn’t
be […]

Schlockmania had severe misgivings when the trailer for The Dead Don’t Die first emerged
online. It looked like another Mars
Attacks: i.e., a vintage b-movie premise that had more talent thrown at it
then it […]

Summer is upon us now. The best way to avoid the sweltering
temperatures and surprise rainshowers it brings is to stay at home, close to
your well-stocked home video library.

Here’s a dozen titles to consider […]

Airplane! is one of those films we all take for granted.  It has been imitated so often and its parody-at-a-machine-gun-pace formula has become so commonplace in the world of comedy that it’s all too easy to […]

A convincing case could be made for Mott The Hoople
being the ultimate “hard luck kids” of rock and roll music.  They were an influential band that could have
and should have been bigger than they were but were […]

Is it possible for a provocateur to have a second act in their career? It’s worth addressing that question to author Mike McPadden, who has enjoyed a wild, often controversial career in print form since the dawn […]

Joel M. Reed fits into the “deep cut” category
of exploitation film knowledge. Most who remember his film career remember it
for Bloodsucking Freaks, one of the
most successful and notorious indie horrors that […]

Child’s Play has enjoyed the home video treatment befitting an influential hit: there were a couple of DVD’s, including a special edition, a blu-ray box set collecting it with the series of films it has […]

By standard critical terms, a horror movie about a voodoo-possessed Cabbage Patch/Teddy Ruxpin-style doll shouldn’t have worked… and yet Child’s Play was not only a hit but spawned a dynasty of sequels that […]