Articles related to "Roger Corman"



A Bucket of Blood (1959) Movie Review
A Bucket of Blood stars Dick Miller as an insecure busboy who becomes a crazed sculptor, in this 1959 horror comedy.
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Dementia 13 Review
Dementia 13 is often dismissed as a bad B movie. The flick takes elements from earlier Gothic treatments while adding the slasher dimension that has grown so popular.
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Joe Dante at the Edinburgh Film Festival
Cult filmmaker Joe Dante described his career from its beginnings under the tutelage of B-movie king Roger Corman, to making hits like Gremlins and The Burbs.
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Roger Corman's Poe Films
In the early 1960's legendary low budget film-maker Roger Corman made a series of evocative and successful films based upon the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Stan Bickman – Part II – War Stories from the B-Movie Days
In a continuation of my tribute to a mentor, Stan Bickman, I pass along some stories from the B-movie days, when Shelly Winters is making a schedule, and Jack Nicholson directs a dentist.
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The Substance of Movie Directors' Styles
When a movie is conceived, no matter who writes the script or runs the camera or edits the footage, it's often the director's style that shines the brightest.
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Retro Bio: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood...
August's "retro bio": Roger Corman's life, his stories, and anecdotes about making low-budget films.
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A tribute to Vincent Price
No matter how threatening Vincent Price was on film, one sensed there always was a giggling prankster barely beneath the surface who wanted viewers to be in on the joke.
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Death Race
Death Race 2000: Prime for revisit or best left alone?
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Edinburgh Film Festival Programme 2009
This year's Edinburgh Film Festival boasts an impressive line-up with new films by Steven Soderbergh, Sam Mendes, Kathryn Bigelow and Dario Argento on show.
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Gangster Movies
"The Departed" steals Best Picture - and reminds us of the many mugs hanging in filmdom's rogues galleries.
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Spacey Awards Honour 2 Legends
The annual Spacey Awards honour Roger Corman (Little Shop of Horrors) and Stan Winston (Aliens)
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allen Poe is considered a writer in the Gothic genre. His style is often intense horror, yet he also writes in the style of Romanticism.
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The Intruder
Imagine that a white separatist sect of the Klingon Empire has captured the Starship Enterprise, brainwashed its venerable captain – James T. Kirk – and transported him back in time to the rural south as a hate-mongering segregationist. Sound implausible? Well, guess again, and fasten your seatbelt for The Intruder, director Roger Corman’s racially charged 1961 docu-drama featuring none other than William Shatner in one of the most powerful and provocative performance of his career.
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The New Year Brings Some New Series To Television
This week we review three new series: THE DISTRICT, BLACK SCORPION and THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE. Come along and see what some of the new series for 2001 look like.
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Slaughter Studios--Theatrical Butchery
The slaughter here is perpetrated on the audience.
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Evolution of Women Heroes in Film
Throughout history women have sought the equal opportunities afforded to men, including the right to kick some butt; these filmmakers have given them their chance.
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Life Legacy of Princess Diana Now a Comic Book
The extraordinary life and tragic death of Lady Diana Spencer, former Princess of Wales, is now the subject of a new comic book, Female Force: Princess Diana.
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Movies: Cloak and Dagger!? Fantastic Four! Wonder Woman!
Dimension Films taps Marvel characters "Cloak and Dagger". Buffy creator writes a new comic book for Dark Horse. What ever happened to that Tick TV show? Fantastic Four movie planned. Snadra Bullock to be next Wonder Woman?
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The Movies and H.P. Lovecraft
The first film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story came twenty-six years after his death. Unfortunately, it was released as Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace (1963).
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Where In The World Can I Find 99 Cent Videos (Part II)
Still can’t find Revenge of the Cheerleaders or other films profiled on this site at your local video store? Don’t fret; help is on the way.
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Film Review – Death Race (2008)
Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race is well-made and extremely exciting - a true action film for the hard-core action fan.
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Hollywood Heroes in World War Two
Most were not famous at the time, but history would remember these actors, directors and producers more for what they would accomplish later than for the War.
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Ride Clear of Diablo - Starring Audie Murphy
The 13th film of his career, Ride Clear of Diablo, was released in 1954. Co-starring Dan Duryea, the well-paced western furthered cemented Audie's screen persona.
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Movie Review of Spine Tingler!
In its Southeast Premiere at the Florida Film Festival, "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story" highlights the career of the late horror movie producer-director.
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Five Underrated Horror Films
It's easy for a horror film to slip between the conscience of the general audience.
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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
Lesbian lovers on the lam in Matthew Bright's latest twisted variation on the fairy tale.
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Millenium Man Pilot Crash Lands
Glen Larson's proposed new series has been done -- and better.
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Mission to Mars
A review of the much-hyped movie "Mission to Mars".
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Nicholson -- As Good As It Gets
Nicholson, 64, is as good as it gets as a Hollywood legend.
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Perfect Blue: Animé Film Review
A unique landmark in Japanese animation, Perfect Blue is the mind-bending feature that proved animé could do reality as well as, if not better than, live-action.
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Traci Lords in Shock 'Em Dead (part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of my 2 part review of the low budget horror flick Shock 'Em Dead, starring former porn queen Traci Lords.
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Wes Craven's Scream 3
A review of Wes Craven's third and final installment in the popular <I>Scream</I> series.
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"Welcome to your new home – Opening the Production Office"
They give you they keys and the office is yours!

Charles Bronson as a Lead Actor
In the late 1960s, Charles Bronson was established as a reliable character actor whose screen presence was always felt.
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Cinemania - Review
Documentary following five obsessive film fans as they plan their daily visits to New York's arthouse cinemas.
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Halloween Horror Movie Triple Packs
Recently released horror movie triple packs include Scream, Halloween, and Hannibal Lecter.
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John Sayles
John Sayles--a short biography and a filmology of a brilliant write and director.
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New Episodes for "Summer of Sci-Fi"
This week we take a look at the new, first-run programming scheduled for the Sci-Fi Network beginning in June. "This week in television history" takes a look back at DYNASTY.
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On Halloween, All the Monster Movies Come Out
An abbreviated listing of some of the goodies showing between now and Wednesday morning.
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Ramones Mania
A brief history on arguably one of the greatest punk bands, the Ramones.
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Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll:<i>Easy Rider</i>
I've heard that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper really <i>were</i> under the influence of pot while making this picture. Well, that would explain <i>everything</i>........
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Stan Bickman - First You Have To Make the Movie
A tribute to a mentor, and the role of mentoring in film production.
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The Early Career of Charles Bronson
In the years leading up to his death, Charles Bronson disappeared from movie headlines and was something of a forgotten name.
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Them or Us - Political Control In 50s Sci-Fi Movies
Regardless of how cheaply they were often made, McCarthy-era genre films said more about contemporary political and economic blind spots than the
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And Now The News: An Update for April
Who's doing what, and with whom.
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GOOD, CLEAN SCARE: MATINEE, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
A look at MATINEE and A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, two movies that offer imaginative scares.
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LOWLIFES: AFTER DARK, MY SWEET, MIAMI BLUES
A look at AFTER DARK, MY SWEET and MIAMI BLUES, two film featuring basically despicable characters, and why they're fascinating nonetheless
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Pontypool Bruce McDonald Interview
In Part #2 of this exclusive interview, Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Highway 61) talks about his new horror film, Pontypool. Movie opens March 6th.
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The Second Assistant Director: Copy That!
A one-time experience as a Second Assistant Director is as dismaying as the author imagined it to be.


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