DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Highly Recommended The Movie: Long a staple of lame public domain/unlicensed releases and a film that appeared in more low budget horror movie collections than you can shake a stick at, Messiah Of Evil was always the victim of poor presentations and bad video quality. Thankfully Code Red has rectified that with their new DVD release which presents the film in its original widescreen aspect ratio on...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. After four long months of scheduling difficulties, Jay and I finally managed to sit down with Kurt and Andrew from Row Three to record the latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time around, we engage in a pretty lengthy discussion...
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
For the past few nights I've been playing around with this new online game/virtual world called Metaplace . The concept is really interesting in that it allows users to create their own worlds within the game. The tool set is actually very robust and I think the users who are there now have only scratched the surface of what's possible here. You could actually create your very own multiplayer role...
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
“Walter was the best football player to ever play the game of football!” -Coach Mike Ditka Today is the tenth anniversary of one of THE greatest if not best all around football players and true gentleman to ever play between the chalk in football history, and having had the pleasure of meeting him a number of times throughout the years around town near until his untimely death a decade...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
A while back I wrote this quick article about a movie called Road To Hell, which is supposed to be an all green screen unofficial sequel to one of my favorite Walter Hill flicks, Streets of Fire. Its...
prairiemary (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The mail order bride had turned out better than he had really expected. She was neat, healthy, and hard-working. Pleasant looking, really, though not fancy. But there was a little part of him, left over from his youth, that had hoped for a bit of a love affair and there was none of that. Sex, of course, because they both wanted children, but he had to be the aggressor. She simply allowed him. There...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Hey everyone. in Chicago here.It's difficult to think of another actor working today that has the range, the credibility, and the guts that Willem Dafoe has, and has had for nearly 30 years of film acting. At this year's Fantastic Fest alone, Dafoe was featured in three very different movies. The first was an extended cameo as the vampire Gavner Purl in CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT. He...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
by Steve Dollar Like swallows to Capistrano, the zombies return to the Catalonian seaside resort of Sitges every October—at least they have since 1967—and their number keeps growing. The 42nd edition of the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fant� stic was a breeding pool for all things undead or otherwise beyond mortal kin or consciousness. Yet, Hollywood entertainments like Zombieland...
the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The Pamunkey Indians were the leading tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Chief Powhattan, father of Pocahontas, at the time of first contact with English colonists at Jamestown, in 1607. Estimates are that the confederacy then numbered between 14,000-16,000, with the Pamunkey numbering about 1000. Powhatan died in 1618, after which his brother and [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The biggest movies playing at Brooklyn’s dueling film festivals aren’t new — but they’re just as relevant today as when they were released.Walter Hill’s classic “The Warriors” is one of those rare films that get better with age. The violent, visually...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Variety has just reported that director George Tillman is in talks to director the action thriller Faster with Dwayne Johnson. Actually that’s not true. Tillman is not in talks because he already cut a deal to direct the film last week. (I got the news from George himself. ) The script, by the way is tight, [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
For some reason, I get the feeling that Rooster Cogburn will suddenly be attacked by a water-dwelling mammal.
Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Wiregrass United Way officials aren’t letting a struggling economy become a deterrent to their annual fundraising campaign.
Periscope Depth (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Hey fans: My next entry in Overthinking It’s Cargo Cult series reviews Streets of Fire, Walter Hill’s campy 1983 rock musical starring Diane Lane, Rick Moranis and Willem Dafoe. I post YouTube clips in the article containing every good song in the movie, so you’ll want to check it out. People who’ve been asking when I’m [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
For better or worse, the electric guitar has generally projected an image of masculinity, a certain macho quality even. Perfect examples of this are the scenes involving Steve Vai's Jack Butler character in Walter Hill's Crossroads (Columbia Pictures, 1986). Cruelly demanding, the instrument has bruised many male egos and crushed their dreams of stardom and fame...
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