When Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” first rumbled into earshot in the summer of 1981, few presumed it would have much staying power. The song was a hit, but not a huge one, reaching No. 9 on the ...

A LOVE STRANGER THAN KING KONG! From writer/director John Landis, the mind behind The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London, comes a love story that transcends the boundaries of nature and ...

It was the mid-‘80s. In the backroom of a video rental store called Armchair Video, I sat as a child with unlimited access to hundreds of VHS titles. As we can tell by the website for which I write, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Pathfinder Pictures / Tubi Movies Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies is a documentary that looks into ...

There are few things I love more these days than weird-ass old animated films. While Disney was busy making glossy family fare for the masses, other animators were pushing the medium in new, ...

The opening scenes of Ray Greene's documentary Schlock!: The Secret History Of American Movies demonstrate how easy it is for a celebration of pop trash to labor under contradictions. For the most ...

Imagine a man in a monkey costume directing actors. If you were that man, you would probably find it quite difficult to take yourself too seriously. As the old saying goes, a monkey suit changes ...

“In charity,” Francis Bacon wrote, “there is no excess.” But then Bacon never saw “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” which since 2003 has been meting out garish and super-sized acts of charity – each ...

Spaghetti Westerns, meaning Western films made in Italy, were revolutionary not only in their filming styles and techniques, but also in their subject matter, which was often darker and more violent ...