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‘Doomed!’, a documentary looking at Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four film, releases its first trailer
One of the more well-known producers in cinema history is Roger Corman, whose filmography of B movies gained a following among film fans all over the world, and who had a hand in launching the careers of luminaries such as Martin Scorsese and Jack Nicholson. Over the course of his career, Corman had a guiding […] More
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Director & Actor Teams: The Overlooked & Underrated (Part 1 of 2)
Cinema is a kind of uber-art form that’s made up of a multitude of other forms of art including writing, directing, acting, drawing, design, photography and fashion. As such, film is, as all cinema aficionados know, a highly collaborative venture. One of the most consistently fascinating collaborations in cinema is that of the director and […] More
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100 + Greatest Horror Movies (pt.4) 75-51
Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of his favorite Horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six parts. Click here to see every entry. More
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SDCC 2012 TV Preview Part IV: Saturday
Part III: Friday Here’s a look at the TV panels scheduled for Saturday, 7/14 Dedicated TV Series Panels- 10-10:45am: Ballroom 20, Warehouse 13 (SyFy) 10-11am: Indigo Ballroom, Attack of the Show (G4) 10:30-11:30am: Room 6BCF, Marvel TV, Ultimate Spider-Man (Disney XD) 11-11:45am: Ballroom 20, Once Upon a Time (ABC) 11am-12pm: Room 28E, Avatar: the Last […] More
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So long, Luce: A mother and son at the movies
Somehow we’d fallen into calling her “Luce the Moose.” No one even remembers why. After that, I used to buy her some kind of moose – a stuffed doll, a carving, anything – every Christmas. Her given name was Lucy Sylvia Mesce. Lucia, actually, but other than her immigrant parents, I don’t think anybody ever […] More
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‘The Hunger Games’ Posters if directed by other famous filmmakers
The Hunger Games is off to a smashing start at the box office, boasting the third highest opening of all time. EW put out some cool movie artwork imagining what film posters would look like if the movie was directed by other famous filmmakers .They include Terrence Malick, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Christopher Nolan and […] More
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9 Great Cop Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
As happened for so many other genres, the 1960s/1970s saw a tremendous creative expansion in crime and cop thrillers. The old Hollywood moguls had died off or retired, most of the major studios were bleeding red ink, attendance had gone off a cliff since the end of WW II, and a new breed of young, […] More
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10 (Kind Of) Great Classic Sci-Fi Flicks You May Have Never Heard Of
We know the greats; movies like Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977). And there are those films which maybe didn’t achieve cinematic greatness, but through their inexhaustible watchability became genre touchstones, lesser classics but classics nonetheless, like The War of the Worlds (1953), Godzilla (1954), […] More
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Cannes 2011 Diary #5: ‘Melancholia’, ‘Oslo, August 31st’, ‘Tatsumi’, ‘Corman’s World’
Another day, another controversy. This time around, it was all about the highly anticipated Melancholia, from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier. Looking well fed and in good spirits, this time he was all jokes, including saying that his next film is religious porn starring Kirsten Dunst and the he understands Hitler. That was enough for […] More
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‘The Masque Of The Red Death’ is a visually beguiling collaboration
The Masque Of The Red Death (1964) Directed by Roger Corman Nicolas Roeg was one of the more successful cinematographers to graduate from the apex of the camera team to the director’s chair, a difficult transition which he arguably traversed with far more dexterity and than his European peers Freddie Francis, Jan De Bont, or Jack Cardiff. […] More
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A Fight for Horror Supremacy: Week 1
It is horror season again, my favorite time of year, which means my dear friend Justine and I reprise our rivalry and do our best to out-watch each other, for no other prize other than bragging rights for the year. Really, it is an excuse for two horror fanatics to cram their brains with as […] More
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RIGHT-HAND MAN: Mike Elliott
Throughout history, standing to the right of every great king one usually finds a great prime minister turning the king’s vision from abstract ambition into fact. During critical years for Roger Corman’s Concorde studio, the man at Corman’s elbow was Mike Elliott. Look up Mike Elliott on the Internet Movie Data Base (www.imdb.com) and you’ll […] More
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