This week’s Create-A-Caption pays tribute to Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz‘s 1986 musical version of the Off-Broadway hit that was itself based on the Roger Corman cult classic from 1960. Thanks to its great songs and winning performances from…
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Remembering Vic Morrow in “1990: The Bronx Warriors”
From The Cinematic Bartender by Winthrop J Quiggy: Bronx Warrior (aka “Italian Rip-off”) Take one jigger of Escape from New York. Add two shots of The Warriors. Sprinkle with a liberal dose of Mad Max. Shake vigorously. Serve over ice…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Tim Curry Performance?
The magnificent Tim Curry turns 73 today. Since bursting onto the scene in the early 1970s, Curry has enjoyed a successful career on stage, as a would-be pop star, in films and TV shows, as an in-demand voiceover actor. Although…
Read more →Celebrate Rex Manning Day From the Cult Sensation “Empire Records”
For a film that hardly made a splash during its truncated theatrical run in 1995, Empire Records has gone on to be quite the success. The comedy (with elements of melodrama) chronicles the lives and loves of a group of…
Read more →The Legend of Richard Matheson
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.” – The shortest horror story ever written This is the story of a man and his (arguably) masterpiece of speculative fiction. Richard Matheson…
Read more →Check Out These Cult Favorites From Vinegar Syndrome!
The great label Vinegar Syndrome has just released four new offerings that lovers of cult and Psychotronic cinema will want to add to their personal movie collecions ASAP. Take a look at these oddball offerings that will send lovers of…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Brazil
For this week’s Create-A-Caption, we are honoring the life of Katherine Helmond, who died last week at the age of 89. Best known for her work in the sitcoms Soap and Who’s the Boss?, Helmond had a distinguished career on…
Read more →Shadows of the Future: “12 Monkeys”
Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors. He has an odd sense of the world and his movies tend to be outré. His works include Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and The Zero Theorem, all of…
Read more →“Backbeat” Explores the Birth of the Beatles
With the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, audiences have once again discovered the magic of the rock biopic. But you may not have realized that there is a motion picture that chronicles the early days of the greatest musical act of…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Office Space” Character?
Yeah, for this poll I’m gonna need you to go ahead and pick your favorite character from Mike Judge‘s 1999 workplace cult comedy Office Space. Although, if you feel like you have a case of the Mondays, you can wait…
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