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The new Arcade feature is available on both live-streamer Sling TV and free ad-supported streaming TV service Sling Freestream.

Some TV is gripping and leaves you on the edge of your seat, unable to look away. Other TV is more in the lean-back variety, designed to allow you to do other things on your phone or tablet while still keeping up with what’s happening in your show or movie. On Wednesday, Sling TV launched a first-of-its-kind feature that allows people to enjoy their favorite TV shows and play their favorite video games without ever having to take their eyes off the screen. Today, the live TV streaming service introduced a completely Arcade game hub that is available for free.

Sling’s new Arcade feature is available on both Sling TV and Sling Freestream. Fire TV and Android TV users are currently able to play 10 different games inside the Sling apps.

A successful formula in horror is this: keep making what sells, but when the black ink begins to turn red, it may be time to tweak that formula. Come to think of it, “tweaking” may be a solid descriptor for Werewolves on Wheels (1971); this is a film that boasts not only bikers and werewolves, but a satanic cult behind it all! Can three genres and subgenres bump uglies and still provide coherent entertainment? Coherence? No. Entertainment? Most assuredly.

One could start with the title, getting the ball rolling on marketing, and as with most low budget bonanzas, delivering something not quite as good as one’s imagination. But recalibrated for that 1970s nihilistic molasses, it rides just fine.

Released in late November, WoW did well on the drive-in circuit and escaped critics’ wrath as just another second (or third) billed programmer. After all, the biker subgenre had been on fire...

The great folks at Code Red DVD are at it once again digging up hard-to-find blasts from the past to give the digital treatment to. Two of the latest drive-in favorites getting the special edition treatment via Code Red are the el cheapo 1974 cult fave Horror High (Aka Twisted Brain) and the 1973 survival thriller Terminal Island.

First out of the gate on August 10th will be a brand new 16x9 (1.85:1) print of Horror High mastered from HiDef from the original 35mm dupe negatives from Crown International's vault. This marks the first time the film has ever been released uncut on home video.

A series of grisly murders wreaks havoc at a small Texas high school! A no-nonsense cop is assigned to find out the identity of the mad devious killer who roams the corridors of the high school. A mild mannered student has been drinking a mysterious potion that turns himself into Vernon,...

Michel Levesque worked in the film industry as a production designer and art director from the late 1960s. He was best known as writer and director for the 1971 biker horror film Werewolves on Wheels.

Levesque was born in Pennsville, New Jersey on August 22, 1943. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and began his film career working as an assistant on Roger Corman’s 1967 cult classic The Trip. He teamed with David M. Kaufman to write and direct Werewolves on Wheels, and also directed the 1972 women’s prison exploitation film Sweet Sugar. He worked as art director on several Russ Meyer films in the mid-1970s, including Supervixens (1975), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). Levesque also worked as an art director and production designer on the films Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977).

Levesque died of cancer at his home in...