Insanity. Betrayal. Blood. Sex. Puppets. For the better part of 12 years, Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles was the answer when asked what film incorporated all of these elements in a way that toed the line between respectable and ridiculous, and worked to entertain an audience. Now the mantle is passed to Dustin Mills...
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The Hellraiser movie series used to be one of my favorite franchises. The story-lines, the shadowy cinematography, the costume designs, and the bloody special effects were some of the elements that engaged me perfectly. The entertaining atmosphere of the films was a combination of fear, horror, and erotica, and it kept on working for...
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Little Women the Musical is slated to be experienced during the next two weeks in the greater New York Metropolitan area at The Secret Theatre, I, for one, am excited, with no resemblance to the online predator meme of pedo-bear. Promise.
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In the world of the entertainment industry, the artisans that usually gain the most attention are the ones that are always in your face: actors and actresses, directors, lead vocalists... Behind the show, however, are the artisans that make sure the attention-getters look and sound good: soundboard mixers, cinematographers, set designers, costume designers, and...
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When I heard about PSYCH:9, the first thing I thought of was one of my all-time favorite psychological thrillers, Brad Anderson's Session 9, and how I was pining away for him to direct the remake of The Crazies a few years ago. The plot-line of a woman filing hospital records in the middle of...
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When dealing with Halloween, you're also pitting yourself against one of the fab 4 of last century's late movie monsters: Michael Meyers. How can the holiday of Halloween ever be touched again? Frank Sabatella, director of Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, took on this challenge, and is in the process of finalizing...
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Never has a movie played off of recent global fears since Night of the Living Dead as has the upcoming movie Contagion, starring, well, everybody. 12 Monkeys just missed the cultural fear of epidemics. The Flash game Pandemic 2 came out, or got popular, after avian bird flu, swine flu, and the common cold...
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It's not that surprising that when two movies with the same premise of a normal Joe Schmo fighting crime, Super and Kick-Ass, came out, Hollywood went with the movie with a safe, MARVEL audience looking for a straight-up action movie. Unfortunately, it left fans looking for Super in limited release theaters and waiting for...
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About 4 years ago, grindhouse, or exploitation cinema, was reborn with the release of the double-feature Planet Terror and Deathproof.. It was a gamble to bring the campy genre with usually amateurish actors back to the big-screen with a big budget, veteran actors, and high expectations. Hobo with a Shotgun has elements of this...
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It had to happen. After such an insane response to my HBO's Game of Thrones Explained...with Beer article, I decided to push the envelope and see what I could get away with in a sequel article. I know, it's shameful. Then again, this could the makings of an intelligent trilogy, or even series, much...
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