Back in 1970s Wes Craven turned the movie world on its ear with horror films such as Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes. He had even greater success in the 80s with A Nightmare on Elm Street. But unlike many of his contemporaries who have fallen on hard times and made crappy film after...
Brendan Benson is rummaging though a bunch of jackets at an empty bar in Silverlake, CA. 'I need my thing' he keeps saying, and apologizes twice for holding us up. 'Heres my thing!' Finally he smiles, very relieved to have found his first of about a trillion cigarettes....
Big surprise! Underworld: Evolution is a good film. This is a rare case of a sequel being much better than the original. This second film takes off nearly exactly at the end of the first. Now that the death dealing vampiric Selene [Kate Beckinsale] and the hybrid werewolf/vampire Michael [Scott Speedman]...
Big surprise! Underworld: Evolution is a good film. This is a rare case of a sequel being much better than the original. This second film takes off nearly exactly at the end of the first. Now that the death dealing vampiric Selene [Kate Beckinsale] and the hybrid werewolf/vampire Michael [Scott Speedman]...
Early on in his career everyone knew that Steven Soderbergh was an innovative and brilliant filmmaker. But no one had any idea that he would eventually have such an effect on the business side of making films. Bubble is the first film in a series of six that...
Jeremy Kasten and I go way back. If it wasnt for me and my two weeks working on The Attic Expeditions they wouldnt have had 12 cases of water to drink during their shoot. Thats right, water, Gods fruit juice. So Seth Green, Jeffrey...
Bryce Dallas Howard is the gorgeous and talented ingnue born of Hollywood royalty but has taken the art film world by storm with her powerful performance in Lars Von Triers Manderlay...
There arent too many film revolutions anymore. They all happened in the 1970s and Melvin Van Peebles was at the forefront of the one that became blaxploitation and eventually black cinema. There would be no Spike Lee, John Singleton and especially Mario Van Peebles because without Melvin, Mario...
Wayne Wang is one of the worlds great independent filmmakers. People may have forgotten his great talent because hes spent the past few years making very mainstream films such as Maid in Manhattan and Because of Winn-Dixie. But prepare to be reminded now that Koch Lorber is releasing his first two...
Though he may not be as well known as someone like John Lennon or Muddy Waters, Gershon Kingsleys contributions to modern music are equally on par with those men. Born in 1922 Kingsley is best known for composing one of the first electronic pop songs...
Onstage he grabs his own ass, slithers around, takes off his shirt and then winks at girls in the audience while simultaneously bro-ing down with the dudes. Hes a bouncing ball of rockstar and hes impossible not to watch. I hung out with Buckcherry's frontman, Josh Todd, over some...
Albert Brooks gets treated like a living comedy legend by nearly everyone in the world, deservedly so, except by studio executives looking at the bottom line. Brooks is releasing his seventh feature as director, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, through Warner Independent Pictures after Sony...