Occasionally there are stars that shine so bright, you can't escape them. In the 90s and early 2000s, their faces are everywhere: in one blockbuster film after another, billboards, magazines, and television.
Eighties horror was not only awash with increasingly derivative slasher movies, but also a deluge of "creature features", often mixing milder scares with black comedy and aimed at a younger teen audience. Many were low-grade trash and simply knocking-off studio hits of the day, like Gremlins , minus the adroit humour and ingenuity.
This pacy, well-made documentary series provides a palpable sense of the excitement, frustration and hard work involved in small-time opal mining. The conditions are terrible and the machinery old and cantankerous, but at the end of the day everyone seems to unearth just enough of the gorgeous gemstone to keep them going.
The horror genre is in the midst of a renaissance at the moment. New and exciting projects have hit theaters in the past few years, making money and becoming critical successes in the process.
Bollywood actor Sridevi passed away on Saturday night after a cardiac arrest. She was 54. She was called the female Amitabh Bachchan of Bollywood, and not for nothing.
Now a four-time Oscar nominee with the spectacular success of his fantastical creature romance The Shape of Water , which took 13 Oscar nominations last month, writer/director Guillermo del Toro will always remember the first time he saw one of his project's primary inspirations, the 1954 black-and-white monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon . "Every Sunday, Channel 6 used to show all the Universal monster movies," the director explained.
There's really no one better than Kyle Chandler to answer the ultimate monster question: Who wins King Kong versus Godzilla? Chandler, who is showing comedy chops in this weekend's Game Night , starred in Peter Jackson's King Kong in 2005. To bolster his monster expertise, Chandler's just completed the Godzilla sequel with Millie Bobby Brown.
When the announcement first hit a few years ago, many of us were absolutely stunned. Could it really be? Was Bruce Campbell really returning to continue the adventures of that idiot with a chainsaw, Ashley J. "Ash" Williams, so many years after we'd last seen him in Army of Darkness? And as a TV show??? It seemed too good to be true, especially after the 2013 Evil Dead film that split fans down the middle like a blood-soaked blade - some of us loved it, some of us hated it - and for all intents and purposes attempted to reboot the franchisea or not, because a lot of us think it was a sly sequel.
In partnership with House Music Group DC, R&B/Soul artist Sydney Franklin has officially released her freshman project, Make It Hurt. The four track EP focuses on Franklin'a self-revelation of being honest with herself, and coming to terms with who she is as an artist and person.