A sweet n’ cheap SOV martial arts spy flick that punches exponentially above its $40,000 budget with charming enthusiasm.  Low-rent Jeff Fahey and America’s Choice Peter Riegert are two lunkhead pals ...

Long, long ago in a grainy oversaturated age - before the widespread adoption of 16:9 HD broadcast - a weakened god howled for worship and invoked their Adversary, an ancient eternal evil. It wasn’t l...

Happy glorious fall to all.

A fever dream roulette wheel/match 3/Bejeweled mashup that blends together a trio of trashy made-for-TV movies while admirably avoiding any point of view beyond staring with blank disgust into an empt...

Zach Cregger has made a perfect video game adaptation that spiritually captures how I play things like Resident Evil: yelling and swearing at the screen, aiming poorly, and fumbling with the equipment...

by Grant Gow, Staff Writer TerrorThon is the annual horror film festival hosted by the Hiway Theater in Jenkintown, and it’s on its fourth go-round.

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by Justin Fennelly, Staff Writer While the movie has a really good performance at its center, it fails to cohere around believable characters as it circles and repeats itself.

Small-time mobster Nicky (John Cassavetes) is holed up in a fleabag motel after finding out the boss he stole money from has put a hit out on him. Terrified and with nowhere to run, he calls on Mikey ...

It all starts with a too-young me watching a masked lunatic creatively carve campers on NYC’s WPIX 11 when I should have been in bed. That network had a light touch on the TV edit, they left in geyser...

(screened at the Philly Psychotronic Film Society) This feels like someone made an interactive FMV game of a Fruit Gushers commercial where the person’s head never turns into a giant piece of fruit fo...

A pleasant way to start off a Saturday morning, hunkered down at PFS in a chilly theater getting your ears blasted off by Shaw Bros. fanfare. It's the "everything but the kitchen sink" of SB Kung Fu m...

(Philly Psychotronic Film Society) Weaves together the trifecta of feeling like an adaptation of a short-lived Dark Horse comic book from the late 80’s, the lighting of a pre-prestige HBO Pictures pro...

In some ways, I Saw the TV Glow is as subtle as a sledgehammer… but who has time for subtlety, when our queer brothers and sisters and siblings are dying out there? Yet, also, it’s vexing and mysterio...

A new entry in Christopher Nolan’s The Banging On The Floor Is Getting Louder Cinematic Universe.  For all the epic grandeur tossed onscreen with sea-swept cliffs and talk of gods, The Odyssey is deep...

Vladimir Nabokov: “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip.” Reflections ...

(Philly Psychotronic Film Society screening) Albert Pyun scooped enough John Ford movies to know you can leverage the American West pretty impressively. Heck, those vistas! The rest of it? The parts o...

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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by Justin Fennelly, Staff Writer Vaniček understands that the whole mandate here is to crank a dial labeled “TOO MUCH” until it breaks off, all while grinning back at the audience like a mischievous ...