July 26, 2000 | From the golden age of Hollywood studios to the twilight of the drive-in circuit, they were known as B-movies: Low-budget, high-concept genre flicks, shrewdly derivative of…

August 19, 1987| Flashback: Spring 1983, Los Angeles. As the late afternoon sun casts lengthening shadows in the near-deserted coffee shop of the Westwood Marquis hotel, I'm talking with a very…