http://www.b-masters.com Your Best Choices in Bad Movie Entertainment Thu, 15 May 2008 02:04:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When it comes to weird, few people did it as weird as Hong Kong horror in the 1980s. Teleport City closes out our Rubber Soul contributions with David's look at... The Seventh Curse If you’ll pardon my very clumsy analogy, The Seventh Curse is a bit like the blood curse in the ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/12/so-weird-i-cant-even-think-of-a-clever-headline/   The gorilla suit. The diving helmet. The legend. ROBOT MONSTER (1953) http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/12/fool-hu-mans/ The monster suits will be along next time... and I think you'll be very pleased with them when they arrive.  But for now: Dead Man's Eyes (1944), in which Edward Fielding has it brought forcefully to his attention that making someone a bequest of your body-parts is a terrible idea... The Ghost Train (1941), ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/11/unfinished-pre-roundtable-business/ Continuing to fill up the Rubber Soul Roundtable... THE MAZE There are a lot of times when I don't remember a movie (sometimes mere hours after watching it), but I remember a particular scene or vague theme from the movie. All I could remember about Treasure of the Four Crowns was the ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/09/dark-and-terrible-frog-related-secrets/ It's time for the latest Video Binge over at Cold Fusion, which is an entire month of first sequels to movies I've previously reviewed. Can't you just feel the electricity in the air? First up is 666: The Beast (2007), which is a sequel to a knockoff of a remake ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/07/the-month-of-2/       It's time for another chapter of That Was Then, This Is Now, in which Chad Denton of The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and I take a look at Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel, The Lodger, and some of the films adapted from it. Warning: All three reviews plus the discussion that ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/06/single-white-male/ Todd chimes in with the first of Teleport City's contributions to the Rubber Soul roundtable: HANUMAN AND THE SEVEN ULTRAMEN When I'm writing about a movie, I'm much less interested in telling you how good or bad it is than I am in justifying the time I spent watching it. As such, ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/05/ultramen-monkey-gods-and-monsters/     May is another B-Masters' Roundtable month! Drop in over the next 31 days - particularly on the 31st day - as this time around we pay tribute to some of the most important people in B-Movies. Directors, writers, stars--- Bah! Where would any of us be without - the guy ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/05/01/okay-so-weve-got-a-thing-for-rubber/ If I wanted to craft the worst metaphor you'd see all week (on this site, at least), I'd say the following: "Dark Corners (2006) demonstrates that now matter how gorgeous and durable your collection of yarn is, it doesn't mean a damned thing if you don't knit the stuff into a ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/04/30/or-maybe-im-awake-dreaming-im-asleep-wondering-if-im-awake/ Be-Sharam If you wanted to, it seems like you could draw up a sort of family tree of the films Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan made during his late seventies to mid eighties prime, tracing each of those movies' origins along three very distinct lines, each leading back to a particular career-defining ... http://www.b-masters.com/2008/04/30/featuring-the-white-trimmed-polka-dot-suit/