Looking for a rousing Viking adventure that's cheesy and entertaining? The Long Ships is just the movie for you. As England's greatest color cinematographer, Jack Cardiff had filmed 1958's The Vikings, so he was well-prepared to direct this exciting, occasionally grisly mini-epic (a British/Yugoslavian coproduction, filmed in Yugoslavia), which received mixed-to-favorable reviews when released in 1964. Back then, it was a perfect matinee marvel if you were young and impressionable, and it's still worth its weight in hot buttered popcorn. While that most contemporary of actors, Richard Widmark, is clearly out of place as a maverick Norse warrior, he's sufficiently valiant as he guides his Viking brother (Russ Tamblyn, still hot from West Side Story) and a long-ship full of warriors in search of a huge, solid-gold bell coveted by Mansuh (Sidney Poitier), a Moorish prince obsessed with retrieving the legendary bell at any cost. Treacherous maelstroms, lovely damsels, corny battles, and casual humor make The Long Ships a lot of fun-like a Ray Harryhausen adventure without the animated creatures. (Oh, and Mr. Poitier? James Brown called. he wants his hair back. [+]

"Sex, guts, blood, and all men are muthers!" The all-girl motorcycle club the Man-Eaters is a swaggering, brutal bunch who like to be in the driver's seat. They race for first pick among the "stud line" that await them at their favorite watering hole, pound a rival hot-rod gang into the ground in a turf war (and then strip them for good measure), and drag a boy-toy behind their chopper until he's a raw, bleeding pile of hamburger. Why? Because one of their number likes him just a little too much. This wicked, weird, trashy piece of bargain-basement exploitation from gore king Herschell Gordon Lewis (Two Thousand Maniacs) leaves the details of the Man-Eaters' voracious sexual appetites offscreen but puts their bloody and bluntly violent reign of terror front and center, right down to a wild decapitation. After 10 years of filmmaking you'd think he'd develop a little style, but this is as poorly acted, clumsily edited, and utterly primitive as his earlier blood feasts. There's a cool twangy guitar score and a theme song ("Get Off the Road") that has since become a riot grrrl standard. With a little more polish it might pass as surreal, but this simultaneously campy and nihilistic slice of biker rebel hedonism is undeniably bizarre. The DVD also features commentary by Lewis, a funky short subject called Biker Beach Party from the swinging '60s, a gallery of exploitation art, and the original trailer. -Sean Axmaker.

If murder is there, so are they. When the bodies of three inner city gang members are found, shot to death, in a remote wooded area of a small country town, a six man homicide team has the task of putting together the missing pieces to the bizarre puzzle. By relentless door-to-door inquisitions of families, friends, and enemies of the three victims and intense round table discussions the detectives tenaciously work their way closer and closer to finding the cleverly elusive killer. Rising, hot, independent film director King Jeff weaves together a totally unique film noir murder mystery filmed in black & white with an ingenious wrap around story filmed in color. From the very beginning, this movie, with its interesting plot and fine cast, will grab you. and it won't let go until the closing credits.

In this mockumentary style Sci-Fi comedy, a group of galactic trouble shooters, known as ‘Red Shirts’, share personal anecdotes about the trials and tribulations of their occupation of exploring newly discovered planets for possible colonization. They discuss such things as being devoured by a planet’s ground, losing a limb to an acid spewing rock, being shot at by laser blasting cactus plants, poor communication and tasteless jokes. Writer, director King Jeff has created the ultimate Sci-Fi parody with this subtly hilarious film. -Screened at FILM NITE and the BARRIE FILM FESTIVAL -Streamed on BijouFlix and IFILM -Nominated for the B-Movie Festival's Best Short BONUS: Contains 20 minutes of fun-filled production footage after the film.

the XB-70 was America's first supersonic Mach 3 bomber. From rare vintage film see the roll out of the first Valkyrie on May 11, 1964, and witness the awesome appearance of this giant aircraft. Next see the first flight on the XB-70 as it rolls down the runway with it's white finish gleaming in the sunlight. See all of the XB-76's unique characteristics as it goes through it's first 13 test flights. Only two XB-70 Valkyries were belt. One crashed as a result of a mid-air collision with a chase plane, the other resides at the Air Force Museum.