“It’s so funny to me that Andy Milligan has become this great cult figure,” Laura Shaine Cunningham told IndieWire. To Cunningham — an author and playwright who describes her stint in Z-grade movies ...
Do "Machete" and "Spy Kids" take place in the same universe? Danny Trejo's inclusion in both series makes things a little ...
When Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear countdown thriller “A House of Dynamite” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, it was greeted with a chorus of praise. Just about every critic there ...
Lis Rhodes, Journal of Disbelief (2016) (Still) (all images courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary) The British experimental feminist filmmaker Lis Rhodes is being recognized in England, at Nottingham ...
I love a good action flick. I really dig B-movie icon Cynthia Rothrock. And I have a major soft spot for the made-for-TV movies of years past. On that basis, I have nothing but love for Kevin Hooks’ ...
I am beyond pleased to speak to the merits of an iconic grindhouse actioner today. John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the most seamlessly executed exploitation films ever made. The ...
On its own terms, “Sound of Freedom” is a well-done exploitation film. Like the “Taken” series, it’s about a white savior who travels into lurid foreign lands to rescue victims from human trafficking ...
Decades before “The Hunger Games” and “Talladega Nights” brought Hollywood productions to Charlotte, a handful of locals gave independent movie making a shot with varying degrees of success. “The ...