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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is one listener’s schlock canon, a list of great schlock songs that covers a lot of territory. There are Civil War anthems, parlor songs, and jazz standards. There’s rock and soul and hip-hop; ...

Despite what media reports may tell you, the Cannes film festival is all biz and very little show. True, the Carlton hotel has huge Matrix posters draped down the front as well as a platform on the ...

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 ...

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 ...