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Shade Rupe Talks PLAY DEAD and INSIDE THE FANTASTIQUE
Long-time journalist Shade Rupe joined forces with Teller (of Penn & Teller fame) to make his directorial debut on the feature film adaptation of the deliciously macabre stage show, PLAY DEAD. In...
View ArticleTHE TOXIC AVENGER’s Lloyd Kaufman Gets Behind INSIDE THE FANTASTIQUE
Lloyd Kaufman, the mad genius behind such epics as THE TOXIC AVENGER, CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH, TROMEO AND JULIET, and POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD, has been a longtime fixture at...
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Review: MARS AT SUNRISE
Heightened reality illustrates the conflict between a Palestinian artist (Ali Suliman, left) and an Israeli solider (Guy El Hanan) in MARS AT SUNRISE. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians...
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Review: CHILD’S POSE
Luminiţa Gheorghiu in CHILD’S POSE American movies apply a pretty straightforward technique to devastate an audience: build up the emotion; accelerate the cutting; maybe throw in some shouting; add a...
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Review: TEENAGE
Jitterbug dance contest at the Shrine Auditorium in Southern CA, 1939. From TEENAGE. It is the privilege of teenagers to think that they are the first to confront the world with their quest for...
View ArticleSponsored Video: THE LEGEND OF HERCULES
So while Brett Ratner and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson got their crack at HERCULES this past weekend, Renny Harlin beat ‘em to the punch — and the slash, and the blood-curdling war-cry — at the beginning...
View ArticleCoca-Cola’s Lesson in Human Values Inspires Tears, Makes You Thirsty...
Yeah, this spot from one of Coca-Cola’s overseas branches (not sure which — Singapore? They’re very big on outreach over there) pushes the heartwarming button hard, and makes a certain fizzy,...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: INTERSTELLAR
When planting your blanket and umbrella, please remember about high tide: The search for Earth 2 commences in INTERSTELLAR. Here’s the dilemma: I saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was...
View ArticleMISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION: Test of Digitally Delivered Entertainment...
Okay, so this “update” about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION is a little late, but lateness isn’t really an issue here, and there’s a reason for that. Having not fired up my non-linear editor (NLE)...
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VIDEO: SCARED TO DEATH – Temple of Bad
In a startlingly bold experiment for ToB, we’ve decided to take the first twenty minutes of the classic(?) Bela Lugosi horror(?) film, SCARED TO DEATH, and treat it to a daringly new concept in film...
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