After House of Pain had their few big hits in the early 90s, everyone thought they would just disappear. For a while, they actually did. Then Everlast [born Erik Schrody] really kicked out the jams, and turned up the heat on the rap world with 1998s Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. However, while recording,...
John Cameron Mitchell came to national attention with the film adaptation of his famous Off Broadway play, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The movie, which he wrote, directed and starred in has become a cult hit. With his limited power Mitchell has produced his first project that didnt have him as the...
Atreyu first received attention in 2002 for their mix of rock, melodic hardcore and metal on their first album Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses. Recently, band members Brandon Saller, Daniel Jacobs, Marc McKnight, Travis Miguel and Alex Varkatzas released their latest album, THE CURSE, through Victory...
Control Room can sit alongside the documentaries Fahrenheit 9/11 and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism as a film that may influence this coming election....
When the theatrical version of The Chronicles of Riddick was released this past summer it was considered a failure and another nail in the coffin of Vin Diesels action movie career. But today Universal Studios Home Video has released the Unrated Directors Cut of The Chronicles of Riddick on DVD....
I first heard of the movie Boondock Saints from the big giant posters that appeared in lots of Blockbuster Video stores. I dont put much stock in any movie that goes straight to DVD; Starship Troopers 2 comes to mind, so I never really gave Boondock the benefit of the doubt. After I first got on...
Peter Sarsgaard swaggered into our interview room with the confidence that belied his young age of 33. After brilliant and complex performances in films like Boys Dont Cry, Shattered Glass and this years Garden State, Kinsey, the story of Americas first sexologist, may finally be the one that puts...
Salma Hayek = one of the most beautiful women on Earth...
Bill Condon is the Oscar winning screenwriter and director Gods and Monsters which was released to great acclaim in 1998 and launched Ian McKellan as a legitimate film actor. Since then Condon wrote Chicago and finally brought to light his long gestating project Kinsey which is a look at the life...
Back in 1970 I Drink Your Blood was the first movie given an X rating solely because of violence. This created a huge market for the movie and it became an underground hit and it still plays horror festivals all over the world. But on November 9th it will hit DVD for the first time UNCUT. In fact...
TC Boyle definitely picked a hot topic this time. His new book, The Inner Circle, is a fictional story set around Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer...
Amy Sohn is the well known writer of the column Naked City for New York magazine. Her first novel, Run Catch Kiss, was released in 1999 and is about the adventures of a young woman named Ariel Steiner, who lives in New York and writes a raunchy column called "Run Catch Kiss" for City Week...
