It all started like a horror movie. A set of four DVDs came in the mail without much in the way of markings. Just silver discs with titles on them. The studio, Sector 5, could’ve been real or fake. I had never heard of them, […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVAfter we lost Ray Harryhausen two years ago, a lot of people in the genre community saw it as not only the death of a monumental man and artist, but also the death of an era of cinema and with it an entire storied technique […]
NewsSummer is a great time for camping. It’s also a great time to check out new films. When I first read the synopsis for Redwood Massacre, the newest release from Uncork’d Entertainment, it sounded like it could either be a hit or a miss. I […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVStop me if you’ve heard this one before: A California kid with creative parents grows up to make a living in the entertainment industry. The end. This cliché does and most emphatically does not describe filmmaker Staci Layne Wilson—dad’s a Rock & Roll Hall of […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVTom Holland has enjoyed a successful career in Hollywood. As a writer, Mr. Holland wrote one of the most ambitious sequels in film history with Psycho II, starring Anthony Perkins twenty-two years after everyone’s favorite mama’s boy first tore onto the scene. As a director, […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVIt’s billed as an homage to Lucio Fulci, and at times, it feels superior. We Are Still Here, which is Ted Geoghegan’s debut full-length film as a director, touches the Fulci basics: it’s got gore, an isolated house in New England, a troubled family dealing […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVRichard Cranor’s Star Leaf is a film about many things, including aliens, personal demons, rules, deceit, horror, and lastly—surprisingly—marijuana. For a film that is about three friends trekking through the thick wilderness of the Pacific Northwest to find and toke up on an extraterrestrial strain […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVIt’s pretty much impossible to imagine Italian horror cinema without also thinking of Goblin. Their eerie cinematic soundscapes provided the soundtrack to sudden bloody death and the arrival of demonic evil. I would argue that their soundtrack to Suspiria is not only the best modern […]
Music & Events Music ReviewsChristopher Lee passed away on June 7, 2015 after hospitalization for respiratory problems and heart failure. The news of his passing was not made world-wide until June 11, only after his wife of 54 years was able to reach all family and friends with the […]
Featured ArticleDer Samurai is the first feature film from German writer/director Till Kleinert. The film stars Michael Diercks as Jacob. Jacob is a police officer in a small non-distinct rural village. He is a quiet, unassuming man who’s inexplicably disrespected by the occupants of the small […]
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