Movies
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12 Shorts That Grew Into Feature-Length Films
These big films started small before hitting the cineplexes.
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Foreign Objects: We Are the Night (Germany)
There are few genre character-types as tired and overdone as the vampire. They’re rarely scary, usually uninteresting, and often terribly predictable. They’ve become so mundane…
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Blood, Sweat and Latex: The Good, The Bad, and the Avant-garde
by Shannon Shea California Institute of the Arts or CalArts as it was known, informally, was set on a hill just off of the 5 freeway…
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Review: John Carpenter’s Evil And Far Less Talented Twin Returns With ‘The Ward’
Assault On Precinct 13. Halloween. The Fog. Escape From New York. The Thing. Christine. Starman. Big Trouble In Little China. Prince Of Darkness. They Live.…
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Junkfood Cinema: The Rock
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema: we have come here to chew bubblegum and worship bad movies…and we’re all out of bubblegum. Pursuant to our mission…
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8 Homages That Come Close To Being Rip-Offs
From first glance, J.J. Abrams’s latest, Super 8, looks like an unbridled homage to ’70s and ’80s era Spielberg movies, complete with kids getting into…
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Another Hole In the Head 2011 Review: Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show
Another Hole In the Head 2011 Film Festival runs June 2nd through the 16th at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Check out the Festival…
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Another Hole In the Head 2011 Review: The Moleman Of Belmont Avenue
Another Hole In the Head 2011 Film Festival runs June 2nd through the 16th at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Check out the Festival…
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Blood, Sweat and Latex: Bluffing My Way into Film School
by Shannon Shea Special effects master Shannon Shea continues his trip down memory lane in an attempt to find relevance in the 21st century world of…