Stephen Gaghan won an Oscar for his screenplay for Traffic. After crafting the screenplay for that dense multiple storyline filled story implicating everyone even the US government in the worlds hard drug trade Gaghan decided to do the same for Big Oil with Syriana....
Ever wonder what happened to your favorite punk rockers? well perhaps they became a Mormon like Arthur Killer Kane of the New York Dolls did. Perhaps that was why Kane allowed Mormon filmmaker Greg Whiteley follow him around for months including to the New York Dolls reunion in London. Greg Whiteley...
Exene Cervenka is the gold standard for what all punk rock musicians should be. She is uncompromising, self deprecating and a real renaissance woman. She of course came to fame in the 1970s with the seminal punk band X. Since then Exene has had numerous other...
David Slade has directed one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. It is called Hard Candy and there is no blood, gore or anyone killing anyone else. It just hits you deep in the stomach. Its a great movie to just sit and watch the audience react to. The film stars Patrick Wilson as a 32...
Its been ten long years but Charles Burns has finally finished his epic comic book, Black Hole. Black Hole is wildly surrealistic and disturbingly real at the same time. It takes place in the 1970s in Seattle where a group of teenagers have a sexually transmitted disease that eventually transforms...
Tony ONeill has had a wild life as a musician, writer and junkie. Hes chronicled the rough part of his life in the book Digging the Vein while he was detoxing from methadone...
A lot of people out there think thats its not a good idea for these ranting and raving pundit types to have their own TV shows. Well now weve got our very own incensed host on TV, Henry Rollins with the aptly named The Henry Rollins Show. For those who may not know of...
Ive been a fan of Broken Lizard ever since I got really stoned and went to see Super Troopers in the theatres. Just from that film, I knew that these guys were a tight knit bunch of comedy stars. When their next film, Club Dread, tanked at the box office I was so worried that these guys wouldnt...
Fables is a wonderful book and has been at the forefront of the new age of Vertigo books along with Y: The Last Man and 100 Bullets. Created by comic book veteran Bill Willingham, Fables takes all your favorite classic fairytale characters and explains what...
Sir Ben Kingsley is one of our greatest actors and I was a bit nervous to talk to him. Before I saw Lucky Number Slevin I was even more nervous because Kingsley's output in the past few years has been spotty at best. His choices of films such as BloodRayne, A Sound of Thunder, Suspect Zero, Thunderbirds...