After seeing "Cell" I wanted to call my grandmother who, with the emergence of the world's first iPhone in June of 2007, predicted the end of civilization as we know it. Five months later she passed away, and some of my cousins whispered that perhaps it was the curse of technology that did her in, or she had been hexed by Steve Jobs.
John Carpenter shocked us all when he revealed last week that not only is the new Halloween movie happening, it already has a director, a screenwriter, and a release date. The duo in charge of the project are comedy powerhouses David Gordon Green and Danny McBride , who are responsible for Vice Principals and Eastbound & Down , so at first it seems a little odd for them to take on a classic slasher franchise.
Unlike Peter Tork, who brought a bass guitar into the studio for Monkees recordings, Micky Dolenz had no problem with the idea of being a fake musician. He was an experienced actor, having portrayed the childhood friend of Bimbo the baby elephant on the '50s TV series "Circus Boy," so musical authenticity wasn't his top priority.
Director Roger Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith famously made 1960's Little Shop of Horrors in two days on a few sets and with nothing but sheer filmmaking bravado to back them up. Well, that and a ludicrously-talented cast that included Corman regulars Mel Welles, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph and of course, the great Dick Miller, all riffing along like notes in Fred Katz's jittery jazz score, all having a great time while Corman instinctively married ludicrous comedy, lurid smut and darker strains of psychological horror, a worthy and wonderfully messy companion to Corman and Griffith's similarly wacky 1959 hit A Bucket of Blood .
Hey folks, Harry here... LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, directed by Todd Browning and starring the late great icon of horror, the original Lon Chaney... well, if you're a film geek, you know this silent "vampire" tale has been lost for ages. A couple years ago we were on a trail of an alleged LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT print that was purportedly in Warner Brothers' gigantic film library under the name THE HYPNOTIST, which was an alternate title at the time.
Orion Pictures and BH Tilt have revealed the first clip for The Belko Experiment , from writer/producer James Gunn and Wolf Creek director Greg McLean. You can watch The Belko Experiment clip in the player below! Taking its cues from Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale by way of The Hunger Games , the wildly gory The Belko Experiment explores a twisted social experiment, in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogata, Columbia and ordered by an unknown voice on an intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
It chronicles Joan Crawford and Bette Davis' notorious rivalry behind the scenes of their 1962 film, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon star as battling Hollywood divas Crawford and Davis, respectively, on the first season of "Feud." Debuting Sunday, March 5 at 10 p.m., "Feud" is the latest from executive producer Ryan Murphy for FX, after critically acclaimed series "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story," which followed the murder trial of O.J. Simpson in its first season.
The road to Best Picture for independent films is usually filled with uncertainty and adversity. Only in hindsight does it seem like some beneficent movie god plotted the course, and that calamities along the way would in retrospect seem like big breaks.
In this 2013 photo, British musician Roger Waters of Pink Floyd performs in 'The Wall Live," at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. In addition to the news surrounding President Trump's pledge to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, there's a new gameshow on NBC called "The Wall," co-produced by basketball star LeBron James.