Film

Between 1976 and 1991, Marneen Fields was one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stuntwomen, being dubbed “Hollywood’s Original Fall Girl” and awarded a Fall Girl license plate by J. P. Bill Catching and the Stuntmen’s Association for performing dangerous and daring ...

Recently Diabolique has started a new season that pays attention to the stifling of creativity, information, and political beliefs that are currently under attack by forces on both the right and left. Sometimes cinema and art can make for an ...

An earthy rock score from Rob pulsates next to the glossy slickness of a young woman, no older than 25. She’s teetering on the edge of being an out-and-out teenage sexualized fantasy of a woman: revealing Daisy Dukes, reflective sunglasses ...

The Ranger should be a great slasher movie. It has all the prerequisite elements: an interesting villain, solid chops both in front of and behind the camera, an unusual hook on which to hang its ideas, and a familiar – ...

  On a budget of $14,000 and the experience level of DIY beginners comes a non-direct homage to grindhouse and exploitation films in The Theta Girl. Moving through the festival circuit like a force of nature, The Theta Girl is ...

Long, lazy, hot summer days in a small Australian coastal town didn’t offer a young girl much more than the lifestyle depicted in the coming-of-age classic Puberty Blues (1981). I escaped head first into movies at a very early age, back when ...

Maybe being granted three wishes was never a straightforward process, but there must have been a time when they were something to hope for, because despite all the horror stories of wishes gone bad, the idea that they can help ...

The Psychopath was completely unknown to me, but most of the Amicus titles are. Their catalogue has been a huge blind spot for me as a horror viewer, mostly because they weren’t as widely available as Hammer films. The Psychopath ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...

Legend of stage and screen Stacy Keach has 15 minutes to talk. Factor in the foul-ups of connecting via an international operator and that window, sadly, reduces to 10. Yet still, the fact that someone of Keach’s stature and schedule ...