Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

  Day Nine, and we are still rocking and rolling. This edition is a little late because I went long on one topic. You’ll see. Let’s get to reading! Here are the things I was thinking about today (aside from lunch and naked ladies, because I’m just a caveman).  …

It’s Day Eight of our experiment, and by now maybe you know the routine. I am going to share some things I thought were cool, or just thought about today. And you can comment on my thoughts, or share your own! I would love to know what you’re thinking. Unless…

  Day Seven. I think that’s supposed to be the day of rest, but we’re still just getting started here. Featured today: A few things to make you happy and one thing to make you furious. That’s still a bargain, in this day and age. It’s usually the other way…

  It’s Sunday, so things have been quiet as far as breaking news and big premieres, but not quiet in my personal life! I’m exhausted, and it’s not even Monday yet. All of that taken into account, I only have one thing to recommend today, and it’s something that has…

  Back again with a shortlist of things that have caught my interest over the past 24 hours. There’s not much in the way of big news or trailers, it being Saturday, but there’s still some cool stuff to share!     JOHN CARPENTER! I’m a guy with a fair…

  It’s Day Four. Fantastic! Here are some movie-related things that found space in my mind over the past 24 hours.   DANGEROUS ANIMALS! Check out the trailer for DANGEROUS ANIMALS! It’s a genre-bender from Australia about a serial killer who kidnaps a surfer and sails to shark-infested waters with…

  And on the third day… The project to put the “Daily” back into “Daily Grindhouse” continues! Here’s a collection of movie news and trailers I saw today and thought you might be interested in, along with some other good stuff. But first:   RIP WINGS HAUSER Condolences to the…

    Hey, we’re back! Day Two. The experiment continues. Not as much to cover today as yesterday, since the first round-up rounded up a lot of stuff, but here are a couple things that were notable (to me) today.     SHADOW FORCE! A new movie from Joe Carnahan?…

­ Okay, trying something here. Everyone stand back. Give the man some space. He’s about to take a leap. 99% chance of failure here. That ground below looks a lot like concrete. But here’s an idea! Let’s put the “Daily” back in Daily Grindhouse. This will be a way to…

  If you’re one of the lucky ones, you’ve got a sweetheart. And if you’ve got a sweetheart, come Valentine’s Day, you get chocolates. Now if you get one of those Russell Stover Whitman Samplers, you’ve got a choice to make. But if you’re like me, you only have these…

  Everyone knows that couple who are so inseparable they practically become one person. They get a couple name (think Brangelina), and their identities merge to the point where imagining them apart feels impossible. While some might see this level of unity as the ultimate romantic goal, others might find…

    Welcome back to Daily Grindhouse’s mostly-annual feature where we celebrate lots of stuff that goes overlooked by the normal-people Oscars. We like a lot of the same things they do, but we also like a whole lot of stuff that go unmentioned over there. You’ll see us mentioning…

        From 1634 to February 1637, by popular accounts, the Dutch Republic was widely in the grip of Tulip Mania. Tulip bulbs reached a point by December 1636 where they were trading at more than ten times their 1634 price a single bulb. One particular strain of…

    It’s that time of year again! It’s Bizarro* time! Here’s a ballot for those who would like to be included. This is your chance to celebrate movies you loved last year that probably won’t get much love at the “real” Oscars. Answer as much or as little as…

        I love genre cinema. I will always have a soft spot for horror, action, sci-fi, and all the subgenres that exist inside those larger categories. What I never used to feel any real connection to are those films that exist in the realm of pure sleaze….

  2024 was a good year for movies. To be honest with you, I tend to think any year is a good one for movies, if you look hard enough. 2025 is looking bleak in almost every other way, but as far as movies go, we’ve got some cool stuff…

        When I was 22 years old, I took a job at a 24-hour copy shop to work third shift, four nights a week. Monday through Thursday, my workday would start at 10pm, and run until 7:30am. The copy shop was about a mile from my home,…

    This year, January January’d harder than any January ever. While the inauguration and Trump’s first two weeks were unraveling, I found comfort in Mary Beth McAndrews’ directorial debut BYSTANDERS, penned by actor/screenwriter Jamie Alvey. It’s an empowering rape/revenge story that takes a hard left mid-way through and ends…

Women have always been a little more in touch with their feral side than most societal norms would have us believe. Despite—or perhaps because of—being shoved for decades and millennia into subservient boxes, we have never quite lost the edge. There has been a noticeable uptick of late in the…

      I’m about the biggest Steven Spielberg evangelist you’re going to find. His work, generally, has the kind of complexity and self-reflection we expect from our greatest filmmakers. Then there’s READY PLAYER ONE. It recasts the collapse of third spaces and a radically widening gap of income inequality…

Even a cursory glance at the current state of the world around us hints at a level of ruin and decay that is, in some ways, entirely unprecedented. The land is both freezing and in flames. People are finding reasons to hate each other instead of building community. Elected officials…

  The gang at Daily Grindhouse is coming at you with a medley of lists and year-end highlights for you. Let us know what you loved most throughout 2024! And expect that we’ll all be talking a lot more with you in 2025…     BEE DELORES’ 5 UNDERRATED, EXCEPTIONAL…

    It is more important now than ever to engage with and create art that challenges us. Art from and influenced by other areas and cultures, confronting subjects that make us uncomfortable and force us to consider ways of thinking that we’d never imagined previously. Writer/director Kaveh Daneshmand’s feature…