Cult Films

Awesome! “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” Comes to the Criterion Collection This Week!

05.10.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1980s Films, Amy Heckerling, Anthony Edwards, Cameron Crowe, Cult Films, Eric Stoltz, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Nicolas Cage, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Sean Penn, The Criterion Collection | no comments

Point to ponder: Is Fast Times at Ridgemont High the best teen movie of all time? Personally I think it is, and it’s also one of the best comedies of the 1980s…if not all time. Adapted from Cameron Crowe’s book…

This Week’s New Releases Include “Another Thin Man” and “Each Dawn I Die”

04.29.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Ali MacGraw, Bill Murray, Criterion Collection, Cult Films, Dan Duryea, Douglas Sirk, Eli Wallach, Geena Davis, James Cagney, Jason Robards, Jean-Luc Godard, Kirk Douglas, Maggie Cheung, Myrna Loy, Phil Hartman, Ralph Waite, Randy Quaid, Robert Patrick, Ruby Rose, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Warner Archive, Warner Archive Collection, William Powell | no comments

This week’s new Blu-ray and DVD offerings are the perfect snapshot of the diversity of the moviegoing experience. Making their home video debuts this week are are assortment of favorites — both classic and contemporary — from the Warner Archive…

Create-A-Caption: Donnie Darko

04.28.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal | no comments

Arguably the biggest cult classic in recent memory, Donnie Darko stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a gifted but troubled ’80s high school student whose adolescent horrors take on new dimensions, as he starts to see “shifts in time” and is visited…

Movie Trailer of the Day: Streets of Fire

04.21.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1980s Films, Cult Films, Diane Lane, Jim Steinman, Michael Paré, Rick Moranis, Streets of Fire, Walter Hill, Willem Dafoe | no comments

Yesterday, songwriting great Jim Steinman — known for his hugely successful collaborations with everyone from Meatloaf to Celine Dion — died at the age of 73. Steinman’s career often brushed up against motion pictures, providing songs for Footloose (“Holding out…

“Damn Yankees,” “Promising Young Woman,” and More of This Week’s New Releases!

03.17.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Alan Freed, Alison Doody, Allison Brie, Barbet Schroeder, Barbra Streisand, Bradley Whitfield, Bruce Dern, Carey Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Clancy Brown, Connie Francis, Craig Robinson, Cult Films, Damn Yankees, Dan Aykroyd, David Tennant, Demi Moore, Dipo Ola, Doctor Who, Driving Miss Daisy, Eric Roberts, Fabian, Fats Domino, Howard Keel, Jennifer Coolidge, Jessica Tandy, Joel Kinnaman, John Wayne, Jon Voight, K.J. Apa, Kenneth Mars, Kirk Douglas, Laverne Cox, Lenny Henry, Madeline Kahn, Mena Suvari, Morgan Freeman, Patrick Bergin, Patrick Troughton, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Stormare, Pierce Brosnan, Psycho Goreman, Rainn Wilson, Ray Walston, Rebecca De Mornay, Roberto Benigni, Ron Funches, Ryan O'Neal, Ryan Phillippe, Stanley Donen, Tab Hunter, Talia Shire, The Criterion Collection, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

This week’s new releases include everything from classics from the Warner Archive Collection making their Blu-ray debut to recent films, be it critically acclaimed releases of flicks that seem destined for cult status. Here’s a look at the titles that…

When The Rocky Horror Picture Show Made the News

10.31.20 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Halloween, Michael Stipe, R.E.M., The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1 comment

What you are about to see is pure video gold. As you are probably already aware, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in 1975 by 20th Century-Fox, it was a box office failure. Then something interesting happened,…

Guest Review: The Bat (1959)

10.15.20 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: 1950s Films, Agnes Moorehead, Cult Films, Darla Hood, horror films, Vincent Price | no comments

“When it flies, someone dies!” Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) has just rented a secluded country estate known as “the Oaks” and finds herself involved in a real-life mystery when she learns that one million dollars has been…

Return to Crystal Lake in a Scare-Packed New “Friday the 13th” Collection

10.14.20 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Friday the 13th, horror films | no comments

Chh-chh-chh! Ahh-ahh-ahh! It just wouldn’t be the Halloween season without Jason Voorhees. The hockey-masked, murder-crazed antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise has been terrifying audiences since he first popped up out of Crystal Lake forty years ago. (Yes, we…

Looking Back at “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures” and “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey”

09.02.20 | Jim Brymer | Tags: Alex Winter, Bell & Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Cult Films, George Carlin, Keanu Reeves, Summer of Sci-Fi | no comments

Today’s guest post has Jim Brymer sharing his thoughts on the Bill and Ted franchise. Take it away, Jim: Before the meteoric rise of one of the most recognizable actors of the 90’s and beyond, a virtually unknown actor was…

Poll: What’s Your Favorite John Saxon Performance?

08.24.20 | Jon Morgereth | Tags: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Character Actors, Cult Films, Enter the Dragon, John Saxon | 5 comments

On July 25th, veteran character actor John Saxon died of pneumonia at the age of 83. With a career spanning over six decades, Saxon shines with roles in films like Enter the Dragon, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street,…