On an extremely hot and humid day in Brooklyn New York, producer Celine Rattray was nice enough to invite me to visit the set of the new film, Watching the Detectives, written and directed by Broken Lizard member Paul Soter. At this point Soter is best known as the bootie flashing state trooper in...
Filmmaker Lucky McKee certainly lives up to his name. Just after releasing one film, May, McKee was invited to participate in one of the greatest gatherings of directors ever on television, Masters of Horror. McKee has apparently proved himself to certain Masters with May becoming a cult film and...
Robin Hardy cemented his place in film history in the early 70s when he wrote and directed the cult film, The Wicker Man. Since then Hardy has done a number of film and television projects but has never...
Mike Reiss is living the American dream. After being a highly successful writer on The Simpsons since the 80s, he was able to parlay that experience into creating Queer Duck. Originally Queer Duck was a series of short cartoons for Showtime. But for the first time Queer Duck has become a full length...
Dan Mazer is the perfect example of immigrants coming over to America and taking our jobs. He was doing perfectly well over in the UK as co-creator of Ali G and various other characters with Sacha Baron Cohen. In fact hes even got another movie coming out in theatres soon called Borat based on an...
It was a real treat and a pleasure to get to talk to living legend Alan Arkin. I told a number of people that I was going to talk to the Oscar nominated improv guru and they said either You got to ask him about Glengarry Glen Ross. I was like Fuck that Im going to talk to him about Bad Medicine!...
At the kick-off of this past Memorial Day weekend, while most of you were beginning your three-day BBQ bender of luke-warm beer, hot dogs and Pepto-Bismol, Brooklyn based band Dub Trio took the stage on Late Night with Conan OBrien. Alongside Mike Patton, Rhazel and Dan the Automator, they delivered...
Rudy Ray Moore is Dolemite. When those five words came across movie screens back in 1975 it made history. Film history, black history, everyones history! Dolemite was a seminal film in the blaxploitation genre because it was one of the first films in the genre to actually...
Few women have done sexually charged works that made an impression on both men and womens psyches. Tura Satanas look and work, especially in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, is right up there with Bettie Page, Dixie Evans and Brigitte Bardot. Satana is a woman that took all the shit shes gone through...
The era of the working comedian is in full force. After standup got so popular in the 70s and 80s, most comedians were leaving the stage to create their own movies and television shows, very often never coming back. Nowadays many comedians want to create their own TV shows and movies but dont get...