It isn't rush-to-the-theater material, but on the small screen "American Grindhouse" will be an appealingly cohesive primer for this sprawling topic. By The Associated Press AUSTIN — Grandpa, what was ...

A sprawling but amusing CliffsNotes-like history of various disreputable subgenres. Drenner and co-scripter Calum Waddell structure “American Grindhouse” as a series of interlocking (and often ...

Gravitas Ventures has inked a two-picture deal with Lux Digital Pictures Inc. to bring two documentaries to North American audiences via VOD (Video on Demand). One of the docs, Elijah Drenner’s ...

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The feature-length documentary American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths ...

AIMING TO BE a definitive survey of trash cinema, American Grindhouse looks at the past century of exploitation flicks with the enthusiasm of a rabid fan. Director Elijah Drenner quickly leads the ...

They never stood a chance of getting respect from arbiters of high culture, but "Two Thousand Maniacs!," "Color Me Blood Red," "She-Devils on Wheels," "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" and several dozen ...

A grindhouse is the kind of movie theater where they don't stop the movie -- don't raise the house lights, even -- when an audience member is killed, and where (if you're director Joe Dante, whose ...

Ever since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez joined forces to make their double feature film “Grindhouse,” there’s been a resurgence of interest in the classic exploitation film. Exploitation ...