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If you grew up in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you know there was no shortage of frugally made yet wildly enjoyable direct-to-video classics lining the walls of your local video store. I spent many a night renting these ...

Split Second came at a time when it seemed like there would be a British vanguard of sci-fi action movies. There was something about their Britishness that set them apart from similar films, a feeling that they’d been ripped from the pages of the UK's venerable 2000AD comic.

Welcome back to Passport to Espionage. In this installment we time trip to the 1960s, a decade in which a profusion of spies infiltrated the cinemas. Sean Connery debuted as James Bond in Dr. No (1962) and created a sensation. ...

A former schoolteacher with extensive disfigurements, the terrible result of a car crash, is shunned by a gossiping community. A freedom fighter in medieval Scotland throws out colonialist overlords and is hung, drawn, and quartered in reprisal. Jesus Christ redeems ...

When you mention the name Bruce Campbell, the first thing that readily springs to most people’s minds is the boomstick toting, chainsaw-wielding final guy of the Evil Dead franchise, Ash Williams. However, for some of his fans, he will be ...

Seventy-five years ago, World War II ended as did the atrocities of the Holocaust. Since then, a number of films have helped to cement the inhumane cruelty of the Nazis in the minds of subsequent generations, the best known being ...

The name Chester Turner doesn’t make an instant connection to filmic auteur and black cinema pioneer, but it should.

No public temple or church gathers Satan’s faithful in worship. Kept in the catacombs and shadows of monotheism’s bright light, Satan’s presence throughout history has been of perpetual occultation and concealment. In Prince of Darkness (1987), writer/director John Carpenter draws ...

On November 1st, 1977, the 2060 Chiron, a small Solar System body was discovered by astronomer Charlie Kowal. Classified as a “minor planet”, these bodies would orbit between the asteroid belt and the Kulper belt and would be known as ...

“Is it ‘saucers, Satanists, or CIA?’: All have received accusing glances as the mutilations investigation has proceeded. The ‘answers’ may lie with any of these—or with all—or with none.” ~ Thomas R. Adams, Project Stigmata, March 1978 The image that ...