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Hey there, Halloween fans. I’m bringing to you today my first short story podcast. I wrote this on a whim out of a desire to create the kind atmosphere that I really enjoy around Halloween. I tend to gravitate towards…
Vox recently ran an article by Todd VanDerWerff announcing the death of the summer movie season. It’s an insightful read. The summer movie season has been dying for years. Tom Cruise had his first non-holiday movie release in decades with Oblivion…
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I sat down with Miguel Rodriguez to discuss the 6th Annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival. To order tickets, visit the website at http://www.hifilmfest.com.
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The Off Topic gang is back with a takedown on movie remakes, reboots and sequels in disguise. Listen in as Dante, Miguel, Beth and I unleash our frustration, rage, and appreciation for the films that stood on the shoulders of giants, either to fall and shatter, or stand triumphant.
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Miguel Rodriguez: Owl & Bear, Monster Island Resort
Dante Moran: Inferno Productionz
Also check out the Film Geeks at the Digital Gym in the Media Arts Center San Diego.
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Beth, Dante, Miguel and I continue our assault on the absurdity of the medium we love, hate, and love to hate. In this podcast we tackle the bizarre, infuriating, and hilarious practice of creating titles for movie sequels. Have a listen.
Don’t forget to follow them at:
Beth Accommando: Cinema Junkie
Miguel Rodriguez: Owl & Bear, Monster Island Resort
Dante Moran: Inferno Productionz
Also check out the Film Geeks at the Digital Gym in the Media Arts Center San Diego.
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Ousted film critic and alleged contrarian, Armond White.
So I conned a group of friends to get together and discuss the rise of amateur film criticism and the fall of Armond White from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Please visit them at their respective websites:
Beth Accommando: Cinema Junkie
Miguel Rodriguez: Owl & Bear, Monster Island Resort
Dante Moran: Inferno Productionz
Also check out the Film Geeks at the Digital Gym in the Media Arts Center San Diego.
There’s a saying that in Hollywood there are only two seasons: summer and not summer. This is only partially true. While summer is still the brass ring every budding film production aspires to, of equal importance has always been the…
Yet another All Hallow’s Eve has come and gone. I hope you enjoyed this year’s run of diabolical dread and devilish distress. This year we revisited some old favorites, conjured up some new scares, and assailed our ears with terrifying…
I find it difficult not to give the number one spot over to that classic slasher film that birthed the infamous killer known as Michael Myers, and tonight is no exception. The rightly-celebrated Halloween theme is as iconic as Bernard Hermann’s Psycho or John Williams’s Jaws. If Alfred Hitchcock can credit Hermann for 33% of the frightening effect of Psycho, Carpenter can credit himself for saving his movie with a terrifying score. Even divorced from the film, those quick, high piano notes overlayed with long, low tones (and that ever present staccato chirp underscoring the whole thing), instill a feeling of dread and foreboding.
Hammer Studios didn’t always produce the best scripts for their classic horror series, but when it came to timeless icons Dracula and Frankenstein, they perfectly captured the spooky, haunting atmosphere. In this follow-up to their adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, the thunder claps, the wind howls, the townsfolk fret and the beautiful young sex-kitten is… well, young and sexy.
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