The Society Of Illustrators has just inducted another artist into their Hall of Fame..it’s poster painter Drew Struzan. And everybody who knows him is celebrating. If you know who Drew Struzan is, then your only comment right now is “why didn’t this happen sooner?” If you don’t, he’s the painter behind some of cinema’s most […]
If you’ve never read Blake J. Harris’s Console Wars, you should get on that. It’s one of the best books around about the video game industry, focusing on the dramatic rivalry between Nintendo and Sega that dominated the culture in the 1990s. You were either a Nintendo kid or a Sega kid (never mind that […]
Scott Peterson, writer and director of the award-winning “Out of the Loop”, has just released his latest documentary, Hitchhiking To The Edge Of Sanity. In the early 70s, the Boomer generation found themselves cast into the unprotected world for the first time. Broke and directionless, they stuck out their thumbs, traveling the country and even […]
Hansi Oppenheimer is the independent filmmaker behind The Squee Project, a media network celebrating representation, feminism and diversity in pop culture. Through The Squee Project Oppenheimer has produced a number of documentaries, most with “Squee” in the title: Squee Fu: Fans Celebrate the Return of Joe Bob Briggs Squee! Identifying as a Fangrrl Squee! Costuming, […]
Much of humor is derived from pain. That’s what makes comedy work, and likely why we have a sense of humor in the first place: to deal with the unpleasantries of real life. Many comedians, from the past and the present, have leaned on their own personal problems and issues to generate their stand-up routines. […]
Everyone loves Hollywood tough guy Danny Trejo, thanks to his star-making role in Machete and subsequent films. But he wasn’t always rich and famous…in fact, he was once a very self-destructive man who spent many years in prison before making the decision to clean up his life. Inmate #1: The Rise Of Danny Trejo is […]
UFOs! They’re out there….or not. Whether or not they’re real, America has had a long, long relationship with them (and we’re not just talking about the anal probe incidents). Small Town Monsters, makers of fine urban legend documentaries, explores the history of flying saucers and their followers in their latest doc, “On The Trail Of […]
Everyone knows moving graves is a bad idea in horror movies…you’ll always get cursed, or haunted by vengeful ghosts. If you try it in real life…you probably won’t be chased by spirits, but it’s still a scummy thing to do. The new documentary Facing East, to be released next month by Uncork’d, delves into one […]
We Happy Few was one of 2019’s more exotic video game products, especially sitting among the AAA packaged-for-retail crowd. Set in an alternate 1960s England, its story of forced conformity mixed with RPG mechanics and first-person stealth made for a disorienting experience. But at least we can’t say there wasn’t anything new out there. How […]
You may not be familiar with all the 60s movie figures satirized in Tarantino’s new Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, but you can change that. Cliff Booth, Brad Pitt’s stuntman character in the film, was loosely based on a real stuntman named Gary Kent. Now you can learn all about Kent in a new […]
You saw them in the Eye Of The Beholder documentary…now Satine Phoenix (Siren Show) and Stefan Pokorny (Founder/CEO of Dwarven Forge) are teaming up to introduce Destination Fantastic…a globetrotting documentary series about fantasies, legends and myths from around the world. Today Satine and Stefan hosted a Facebook livestream promoting the upcoming series — a livestream […]
In 2017 Small Town Monsters, a documentary crew devoted to chasing legendary creatures like Bigfoot, released The Mothman Of Point Pleasant — a doc all about the legend of Mothman and the various sightings alleged through the years. Now they’ve followed it up with Terror In The Skies, a brand-new follow-up feature. Director Seth Breedlove […]