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B-Movies get a lot of criticism, and most of the time, it's well-deserved. While their measly budgets and low quality are sometimes quite charming, these movies often flop because they fail to stick to a substantial plot. Yet, these movies also get a lot of traction from die-hard film buffs.

While Hollywood continues to follow the same tropes and reuse the same set of actors time and time again, B Movies offers fans something very different. As such, B-Movies have a collection of loyal fans, making them successful in their own right. So, even when fans believe they have seen every B Movie known to man, there's always a hidden gem lurking in the depths of cinema history.

Michael Caine Shines in This Pirate Thriller The Island

First released in 1980, The Island tells the story of a journalist named Blair Maynard and his young son, Justin. The pair start off...

Terry Gilliam’s grandest, most joyful fantasy is still a marvel, a fully adult adventure that will equally spark younger imaginations. Creative tricks and eye-popping Italo designs bring us a magical, satirical world of absurd wars, sultan’s hareems and a flight of fancy to the moon. John Neville’s ideal Baron is abetted by spunky Sarah Polley and a gallery of winning characterizations, from Eric Idle, Oliver Reed, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Jack Purvis, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese, Sting. So what if the Baron is history’s most notorious liar: we understand his complaint when performing a technically preposterous trip through outer space: “This is Precisely the sort of thing nobody Ever believes.”

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Starring: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown,...

Another Star Wars Celebration is in the books, and even the fans who couldn't attend the Orlando convention got to see some of the biggest panels streamed live. Naturally, not every panel could be streamed live, one of which being the Star Wars 365: Fact and Fiction, which was hosted by Industrial Light and Magic visual effects supervisor John Knoll. The host took a deep dive into A New Hope history for the movie's 40th Anniversary, and even unearthed some rare never-before-seen footage from this iconic classic.

The Cinema Realm attended this panel and posted four new videos featuring brief clips from the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope. The first clip features a scene with the X-Wing Gold Leader, played by Angus MacInnes, who messed up a line during this take, which he responded to by saying, 'Ah f--k, I'm sorry," before starting over again. The rare and...

1976 saw the publication of John Brosnan’s excellent book The Horror People. Written during the summer of 1975, it makes interesting reading 40 years down the line. Those who feature prominently in the book – Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Jack Arnold, Michael Carreras, Sam Arkoff, Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson and Milton Subotsky – were still alive, as were Ralph Bates, Mario Bava, Jimmy Carreras, John Carradine, Dan Curtis, John Gilling, Robert Fuest, Michael Gough, Val Guest, Ray Milland, Robert Quarry and Michael Ripper, all of whom were given a mention. Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Junior, Michael Reeves and James H Nicholson were not long dead. Hammer, Amicus and American International Pictures were still in existence. George A Romero had yet to achieve his prominence and Stephen King wasn’t even heard of!

Brosnan devoted a chapter to a new British company called Tyburn Films. Founded by the charismatic and ambitious Kevin Francis,...

Feature Alex Westthorp 19 Feb 2014 - 07:00

Nostalgia ahoy! With Sherlock Holmes more popular than ever, Alex looks back at eighties children's drama, The Baker Street Boys...

The BBC's contemporary take on Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories has made Sherlock the most popular television drama series in many years. Benedict Cumberbatch has made Sherlock his own, his approach to the role as radical for the current era as the late, great Jeremy Brett's was a generation ago. Martin Freeman has banished our memories of his role as Tim Canterbury in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's The Office, with his wonderful re-assessment of Dr John Watson. The corporation is making the most of the Conan Doyle franchise. After from two rather lacklustre yuletide cases, firstly with Richard Roxburgh in 2002 then Rupert Everett in 2004; they finally have a hit on their hands. The benchmark hitherto has always been Granada Television...

Holiday camps – don't knock 'em. In this so-called 'austere' day and age, it's possible to get your very own package deal holiday by scuttling down to your local holiday camp or caravan park. There's the usual quota of kids' clubs, cheesy entertainment and some poor rascal who's being paid jack squat to stomp around in a boiling hot mascot suit on a very hot summer's day. So what with pompous arse George Osborne wielding the axe again, a holiday camp in good old Blighty is less of a financial risk than jetting off abroad.

They've always been popular though – they were hot property in the 1980s, when wonky sitcom Hi-De-Hi was on the telly – another example of a sitcom in which you could play 'Spot The Doctor Who Guest Star'. So where else could you find the one-time wife of Mehendri Solon, Vorg from Carnival Of Monsters and “Jolly What...