But, in the case of North Carolina's River Whyless, that would be a serious mistake. The largely acoustic indie-folk band boasts no less than four talented and original songwriters.
There's something to be said for secrecy, and the people behind THE PREDATOR don't seem to get it. Or at least it would appear that they've got a whole lot of faith in the idea that people only watch trailers if they don't mind being spoiled.
For the fourth year in a row, the filmmaker John Waters is hosting the East Bay punk festival Burger Boogaloo. So it seems apt that Film School Drop Outs - a monthly movie screening at the Roxie, which includes drag, trivia "and all around mayhem" - would be showing one of his most seminal films: "Pink Flamingos."
Built in 1926, this Spanish-Mediterranean Sea Cliff home-most notable for its former owner, longtime Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett-has seen its price drop from a cool $16 million to now a leaner $13 million. Featuring four beds, four and a half baths, and three floors, 320 Sea Cliff is perched above China Beach.
It's a great time to be a fan of Stephen King , with Andy Muschietti's IT making historic money at the box office last year, and upcoming projects like Pet Sematary , Doctor Sleep , and IT: Chapter 2 keeping the author's works in the limelight in the near future. Despite all of those projects currently in development, it seems that there's another one on the horizon as well, as the writers of A Quiet Place have officially been tapped for a film adaptation of King's The Boogeyman .
Joe Dante was a key figure in the great 1980s era of the imagination, and he always had a sharper, albeit sillier, edge than peers such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis. Exhibit A: "Gremlins," his 1984 savaging of Reagan-era small-town America that was essentially a horror remake of "It's a Wonderful Life."
Dominick Ventrella, as Tobias, left, serves Mrs. Lovett's pies while Edmound Fitzpatrick, as Sweeney Todd, right, works to keep up with demand in a rehearsal for "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, July 6-28.
What happens when a night of fun turns into a night of horror? Seven friends and a mysterious backpacker converge at a desolate ski lodge in the mountains and as the clock begins the countdown to the New Year, they discover that the end of the old year may be the end of all their years as they are systematically HUNTED down by ruthless masked men with a deadly agenda.
One of my favorite movies of all time is "The Blob," a 1958 sci-fi thriller starring 28-year-old high school student, Steve McQueen, and an unstoppable glob of goo that would roam around and eat every living thing it came across. When I was 10, this was the best and scariest movie I'd ever seen.