As I was hosting a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds yesterday at Alamo Drafthouse, I could not help but think, “yeah, these birds are pretty creepy, but it’s not like they are able to poop acid or explode upon impact or anything.” Nope, for aviary abilities like those, one must seek out 2008’s Birdemic: Shock and Terror. Written and directed by James Nguyen, Birdemic is a nanar unlike any you've ever seen.

Spring, the latest acquisition by Drafthouse Films explores the relationship between two people and how that relationship is affected when one of them turns out to be, quite literally, a monster. Part love story, part horror film, with a little bit of Italian travelogue thrown in to the mix with the fantastic visuals, it tells the age old story of boy meets girl, boy courts girl, and boy experiences the extreme possibility of being eaten by girl. We’ve all been there.

If you grew up on 1980s horror films, as I certainly did, then you are definitely familiar with the concept of the Scream Queen. When you saw that a film would be starring Linnea Quigley or Brinke Stevens or Michelle Bauer, you knew exactly what you were getting into and you knew that you would be having a blast. One of my personal favorites, and one that always appears on any ‘Greatest Scream Queen’ list would have to be Barbara Crampton.

In this first installment of our series of chats with the cast and crew of Left Behind, we open with Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage about why he got involved in a project this divisive and how his own personal familial experiences help inform his choices as an actor.

Last year, right around this time, I had the pleasure to speak with Uwe Boll – easily one of the most divisive and often derided, but also hardest working, filmmakers out there right now - about the release of his film Assault on Wall Street. Now, as he gears up for the release of his latest film, a follow-up to 2011’s Rampage entitled Rampage 2: Capital Punishment, I sat down with the ever outspoken Boll again to discuss the new film, the oft-debated topic of gun control, and what the future holds for our country and his career.

Screenwriter Steven Knight is one of the most respected and prolific scribes in Hollywood, having penned Eastern Promises, Amazing Grace, and Dirty Pretty Things, for which he was Oscar-nominated. For the 2013 film Redemption he also began a career as a director. His latest writing/directing effort, Locke is an engrossing story of a man taking a car ride that will change his life forever.

Ever on the hunt for the next great “cult classic,” I recently stumbled upon Fateful Findings. Written, directed, produced by, and starring Neil Breen, it only took about a minute into the film for me to discover that I was watching something special that had more to offer than the typical film billed as “The next The Room.” I urge you to check it out for yourself now, because in a year or two, everyone will be talking about it and you’ll be able to say that you were one of the first to see it.