An actor's last film isn't always the great fade-out that their past work deserves...but even if the film is a negligible one, and the performance is far from perfect, the
The recent series on beach party movies got us thinking about the movie stardom of Frankie Avalon. Because for a while there, in the mid-1960s, at the height of beach
The fourth and final part of a series on Beach Party movies examines the end of the cycle, and its legacy. As mentioned in a previous piece in this series,
In honour of summertime, Stephen Vagg revisits the movie that spawned the beach party genre, 1963’s Beach Party. I remember when I first heard about the phenomena that was the
One of the side effects of Roger Corman’s fame was the relegation of his producer brother Gene, to the shadows of film history.
John Harrison takes a look at the latest essential release from Headpress, which explores Roger Corman's '60s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.