I love Dick Miller. Is it because I watched Gremlins so many times as a kid? Or The Terminator? Maybe. But that still doesn't explain the other thousands of people that have fallen in love with Dick ‘That Guy’ Miller over the last few decades. Why do we react with...
I love the idea of being a film print collector. The passion, the research, and the hunt for that fabled rare print have always fascinated me. Unfortunately, it's such a prohibitively expensive obsession that demands endless resources (Space, refrigeration, a...
J.R Bookwalter's book that chronicles his first decade of filmmaking is finally back in print! Now you too can learn about the trials and tribulations of making THE DEAD NEXT DOOR, ROBOT NINJA and ZOMBIE COP. Watch the video below for my review Spoiler: It wasn't...
On his site, Vern Reviews on the Films of Cinema, the man known only as Vern writes about one of my great loves: DTV (direct to video) action movies. He tackles late period Jean-Claude Van Damme outings, Scott Adkins epics, and Dolph Lundgren opuses. He clearly...
In 80's action films, it's morally repugnant that we're asked to cheer on Chuck Norris mowing down racially defined terrorists, Rambo blowing away a thousand Vietnamese soldiers, and Charles Bronson murdering a bunch of poor inner-city youths. Yet, I love them so....
You ready to experience the wild world of Canadian Cinema in the most exciting form of all?! Book form?! I don’t simply mean tomes about Cronenberg and Egoyan. I’m talking about stuff like the memoir by the director of Alien Thunder, the history of STUDIO D: the...
I've always dismissed the TV movie as pop culture filler. Sure, there are classics like THE NIGHT STALKER and DUEL, but those are the exceptions, not the rule. And beyond the allure of B-level stars slumming it on the small screen, TV movies were a product that had a...
I've been friends with Adam 'The Riot' Thorn for almost a decade now and no one I've known in person has had more of an influence on my cinematic tastes. He introduced me the joy of working at a video store (the still active EYESORE CINEMA), we did hundreds of...
A fun and laid back memoir about a Regular Joe special effects artist trying to get a leg up in the industry, I'M RUBBER AND YOU'RE GLUE reads more like a casual diary then a tell-all memoir. Shannon Shea is an effects artist that has worked on some of the biggest...
I love action movies. I find them enthralling, emotive and the purest form cinema can take. Yet, it's no secret that the genre is fairly derided in my most cinematic circles. Sure, people will talk up DIE HARD or PREDATOR, but what about the chill that runs down ones...
