BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES (DVD)

Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 108 minutes

An easily exasperated vampiress plans to enslave the small rural community of Backwash by turning its hillbilly citizens into an army of the undead…

Posted on October 30, 2005 by Fred Beldin

PIT FIGHTER (DVD)

Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 86 minutes

NOW ON DVD! Between extreme boxing and graphic gunplay, the wall-to-wall brutality of “Pit Fighter” will overwhelm the casual viewer…

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Fred Beldin

SAVING STAR WARS

Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 20 minutes

Woody is a lifelong “Star Wars” fan with a terminally ill son. Although they agree with the rest of us that “Episode I” sucked like a Hoover, father and son have bonded over the films, and the ailing boy wants George Lucas to restore the series to its former glory and continue making future episodes so his father can enjoy them after he’s gone…

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Fred Beldin

DISPOSAL

Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 18 minutes

A brief, blackly comic sketch, “Disposal” follows an insufferable pair of upwardly-mobile types who make all the wrong decisions after their self-absorption causes a bad accident…

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Fred Beldin

FLESH EATING MOTHERS (DVD)

Year Released: 1989
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 89 minutes

The new DVD edition from Elite suggests “Flesh Eating Mothers” to be in the tradition of “Shaun of the Dead,” a nice try from the ad department, but the tag line is not entirely inappropriate…

Posted on May 26, 2005 by Fred Beldin

THE GIRL WHO SHAGGED ME (DVD)

Year Released: 2005
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 75 minutes

“The Girl Who Shagged Me” is a witless but good-natured skinflick, as innocent as a Kennedy-era nudie-cutie with the same adolescent locker-room humor and sub-vaudeville sensibilities…

Posted on May 5, 2005 by Fred Beldin

RIGHT FOOT, LEFT FOOT

Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 15 minutes

Some may roll their eyes at the trials of a well-fed middle-management type, but anyone who has worked in an office for any length of time will recognize the ennui that cubicles, fluorescent lights and goal-setting workshops breed…

Posted on February 13, 2005 by Fred Beldin

CATHOLIC GHOULGIRLS

Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 54 minutes

Three delinquent Catholic school vixens smoke cigarettes, drink Boones’ Farm and wear their uniforms too tight…

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Fred Beldin

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO JOHN CARRADINE

This February 5th marks the 99th birthday of the late, great character actor John Carradine, and a day worth celebrating for cinephiles of every stripe. With a resume that includes at least 250 film appearances, his unmistakable presence is impossible to avoid if one goes trolling through the history of American cinema…

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Fred Beldin

WESTENDER

Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 105 minutes

Director Brock Morse may not have had much money to make this debut feature, but he’s spent it wisely…

Posted on February 2, 2005 by Fred Beldin

UNDERGROUND (DVD)

Year Released: 1941
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 95 minutes

“Underground” is strong stuff for studio system fare circa 1941. Released a year before the United States actually declared war on Germany, the film is unapologetic about its politics at a time when many Americans didn’t know or didn’t care about the Nazi threat…

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Fred Beldin