roger corman

A grindhouse is the kind of movie theater where they don't stop the movie -- don't raise the house lights, even -- when an audience member is killed, and where (if you're director Joe Dante, whose anecdote gets "American Grindhouse" off to a great start) you stay in your seat the whole time because, after all, you came to see a movie. If this documentary, a lively and stylish look at the history of illegitimate cinema, doesn't keep supplying that kind of irresistible color throughout, it's only because f  

On Syfy last night was producer Roger Corman's followup to Dinocroc (which was on after), Dinoshark . This was a by-the-numbers "thriller" barely directed by first-timer Kevin O'Neil, about a prehistoric shark that makes its way from Alaska, where it was frozen in ice, to the warmer clime of Puerto Vallarta, there it begins to munch on hapless (not to mention nameless) beach-goers. Only grizzled sea captain played by a marble mouthed Eric Balfour (!?) and marine biologist / water polo team captain Iva Has  

The Ohio State University-Mansfield Theatre will have auditions for "Little Shop of Horrors" on March 30 and 31 in Founders Auditorium. Based on the film by Roger Corman and screenplay by Charles Griffith, the story follows a skid row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood.  

At first we thought this was titled Dioshark and was about a shark that knew all the words to Holy Diver, but no, it's a Roger Corman-produced slagfest about a low-rent Quint trying to capture a prehistoric Jaws. Close enough. Rough Riders St. Patrick's Night Parade: The bead begging gets an Irish twist in this family-friendly parade of floats with krewes from across Florida. This year Navy Sailors, Sea Cadets and the Navy Marching Band serve as the grand marshal.  

I'd like to thank the Academy for throwing a little love our way this year in the form of a tribute montage. But I have a bone to pick with whoever wrote the intro for Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. The Exorcist was the last horror film to win an Oscar?  

Zombies have been a staple of horror movies for over seventy years, and it's not hard to see why. Dead people rising from the grave, coming to kill you and eat your brains — who wouldn't be afraid of that? Plants, on the other hand, have never really been trendy as horror film monsters, but the times they've made an appearance have certainly been memorable.  

Charlie and Amita delay their honeymoon on an early season finale of Numb3rs (CBS, tonight, 10 ET/PT) to help Don with his latest case. And odds are his last one, as well. • Sometimes you just have to give it up to Syfy's movie folks, who Saturday bring us Dinoshark (9 ET/PT).  

I was able to sit down for a couple of years and pump out a book. It's got little to do with movies. Download and read "Thank You, Goodnight" right HERE for free.  

Oh boy it was a grim Oscars. So grim I've put off writing this. Now here I am and I feel like the Underground Man from Notes From the Underground or that guy from Camus (or was it Sartre?) who begins his book with "My mother died today, or was it yesterday?"