Tag Archives: Roger Corman

Movie Review: ‘Machete Kills’

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Nat Almirall

Machete Kills plays like a late Roger-Moore era Bond film — and not just because there’s a lot of visual cues and ideas taken from Moonraker — the action and the humor are constantly fighting for dominance, and the humor, … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: Piranha (1978)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s Monday Pick comes to us from the wonderful world of the king of Independent cinema, Mr. Roger Corman, who produced the low-budget version of Jaws, and that movie was the Joe Dante classic Piranha (1978). Cashing in on … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: Rock ‘N’ Roll High School

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1979 Roger Corman cult classic Rock ‘N’ Roll High School which features the legendary NYC punk rock band The Ramones in their first ever feature film. Corman alumni Allan Arkush who began his career with … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: ‘Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies, & Monsters’

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Matt Blackwood

If you love old B-movies, you can’t miss Shout Factory’s line of “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” DVD collections. Horror, fantasy, science fiction, grindhouse- all are represented in these neat 3- and 4-film multi-packs. The Vampires, Mummies, and Monsters collection is … Continue reading →

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Get inside the Mind of Genius in the First Trailer for ‘Corman’s World’

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Matt Raub

Once upon a time, the state of cinemas was a gritty, hilarious, violent place filled with guns, big boobs, and every kind of animal wanting to kill and/or eat your flesh. These days, everything is dumbed down to the least … Continue reading →

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Roger Corman’s Classic Sci-Fi ‘Battle Beyond the Stars’ Coming to 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Chris Ullrich

What makes a movie a classic? Is it some kind of social significance? Or, is it what the movie meant to people when it first came out? Or maybe its just fondly remembered for its amazing cheesiness and being so … Continue reading →

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Principal Photography Underway for ‘Piranha 3DD’

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Eric Medina

Gratuitous underwater lesbian makeout sequences, severed limbs flying at the audience in 3D, and comic amounts of blood flying everywhere.  These are the elements that made Piranha 3D one of the most successful crowd pleasers last year.  Not since Snakes … Continue reading →

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Following the ‘Sharktopus’ Trend, Roger Corman Talks ‘Piranhaconda’

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Sebastian Suchecki

Just in case you thought things couldn’t get more ridiculous than Sharktopus, a film about a half-shark, half-octopus that terrorizes Eric Roberts and a bunch of D-list actors, we’ve got one more for you. In a recent interview on This … Continue reading →

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