HorrorScope (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
I Am Omega (US-2007; dir. Griff Furst) “The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead” With its main protagonist the (apparently) lone survivor of a global plague that has turned the rest of humanity into murderous corpses, the Asylum’s low-budget I Am Omega was clearly motivated by the high-profile arrival of the big-budget Will Smith vehicle I Am Legend (US-2007; dir. Francis...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Post-apocalypse, or ‘dystopian’ film, has been the stuff of legend since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach and Franklin J. Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes.
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Post-apocalypse, or ‘dystopian’ film, has been the stuff of legend since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach and Franklin J. Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes.
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Actress and singer/songwriter Katey Sagal gets credit for, among other things, having a simple name you couldn't possibly spell correctly on the first try. She's from a large family of talented Hollywood types. Her father Boris Sagal, directed many episodes of The Twilight Zone . Her sisters are the twins Liz and Jean Sagal, famous for their role as the twins in the Doublemint Gum commercials. Unlike...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Fallout(R) 3 Film Festival to Take Place at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California on August 22 and 23, 2008 ROCKVILLE, Md., July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Bethesda Softworks(R), a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that it has partnered with the American Cinematheque and GEEK Monthly magazine to sponsor 'A Post-Apocalyptic Film Festival Presented by Fallout(R) 3' at Santa Monica's Aero Theatre...
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
1pm PST - Girl Happy (1965) - A rock singer is hired to chaperone a gangster’s daughter in Fort Lauderdale. Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Gary Crosby. Dir: Boris Sagal. C-95 mins, TV-PG Elvis made a number of good films: Jailhouse Rock, Blue Hawaii, King Creole, and others, but Girl Happy is my favorite dumb Elvis movie. [...]
An American Muslim (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
‘I Am Legend’ Effective but Irksome Remarkably eerie yet annoyingly larded with cheap horror-film shock effects, “I Am Legend” stands as an effective but also irksome adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic 1954 sci-fi novel. In what is to a considerable extent a solo turn as the last healthy human [...]
Dude He's the Stallion (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
My Uncle Donnie had a huge effect on my early reading. Though he worked construction, and was a part time Mayor of the tiny town I first grew up in, he was a writer. He collected comic books most of his life, as well as science fiction paperback (imagine anything with a Frank [...]
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/14/2007
One of the greatest programs from the "Golden Age of Miniseries" is coming to DVD: MASADA. It will be released on September 11, 2007. MASADA, which depicts the Roman siege on the Jewish fortress, Masada, is a show which can truly be called unforgettable. It builds to such an overpowering conclusion that I'm honestly not sure I can rewatch it all the way to the end again, over a quarter century...
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