Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: POE (2012)
Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Aleta: Vampire Mistress (2012)
Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of […]
88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Helter Skelter (2012)
Directed by the visionary photographer Mika Ninagawa, Helter Skelter is a hallucinatory descent into the grotesque underbelly of the Japanese idol industry. It serves as a candy-colored nightmare that blends high-fashion aesthetics with visceral body horror to critique the disposable nature of fame. The story follows Lilico (Erika Sawajiri), the undisputed queen of the fashion […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
Most people hear the name Johnnie To and immediately think of bullet-riddled suits, slow-motion standoffs and the cool-as-ice nihilism. But he can direct a gritty triad war in his sleep and then turn around and break your heart with a melodrama. Louis Koo (Throw Down) stars as Michael, a Hong Kong megastar who has everything […]
The Booth at the End (2010-2012)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Exploitation-film historian A.C. Nicholas, who has a sketchy background and hails from parts unknown in Western Pennsylvania, was once a drive-in theater projectionist and disk jockey. In addition to being a writer, editor, podcaster, voice-over artist, and sometime actor and stand-up comedian, he’s a regular guest co-host on the streaming Drive-In Asylum […]
Daddy Can’t Dance (2012)
Pete Vinal made a vanity project: a movie he directed, wrote, produced, and stars in as Pete Weaver, once the most excellent break dancer in the world. But now, he needs to get his daughter an expensive medical treatment, or she’ll die, and he just lost his dad, who has finally invented something amazing, but […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Girl Most Likely (2012)
Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now. Imogene Duncan (Kristen Wiig) was once a promising playwright, but now has a magazine writing job. She […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Foodfight! (2012)
Aug 4-10 Stoner Comedy Week: I don’t gas reefer anymore, but I love it when people in movies do! Lawrence Kasanoff executive produced movies like Party Camp, Blood Diner, The Underachievers, Dream a Little Dream, Blue Steel, Class of 1999, A Gnome Named Gnorm and Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College before finding success with the Mortal Kombat movies. He also founded the Vestron […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: A Fool and His Money (2012)
July 21-27 Eddie Griffin Week: This motherfucker is funny! When I was a little kid, I would often see ads late at night for touring black plays that were coming to churches and community centers, usually starring my favorite actors from Good Times or What’s Happening? I would ask my parents if we could go, and I […]
Two movies called Midnight Cabaret (1990 and 2012)
Midnight Cabaret (1990): Directed and co-written by Pece Dingo, this movie has the kind of cast that I look for, which includes former member of Detective and MacGyver enemy Michael Des Barres and Thom Mathews (Tommy Jarvis!). This is a musical, strange theatrical play, a Satanic movie, an erotic thriller and a giallo-adjacent — you know, the […]
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