Retro Cinema: Halloween
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Horror | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Horror, Retro Cinema
I come to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween from an odd perspective. I’m a horror buff, and I’ve been getting the crap scared out of me at the cinema and on video for several decades now. Whether it be current stuff like the Saw films, classics like the Universal Monsters, or […]
Read More..>>Cinematical Seven: Horror Movies About Watching Horror Movies
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Horror | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Horror, Cinematical Seven, Lists
Maybe a filmmaker wants to tip their hat to the slashers and psychos who thrilled and chilled them in their youth; perhaps they want to make a post-modern comment on the nature of watching violent entertainment; maybe they just want to scare us good and proper with a moment of […]
Read More..>>AFF Review: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Comedy | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Theatrical Reviews, Austin, HBO Films, Cinematical Indie
Oh, what times we live in, that we can enjoy foul-mouthed documentaries like The Aristocrats and F**k. I grew up equating “documentary” with “National Geographic,” so any nonfiction film that uses four-letter words or would shock my mom, automatically makes me smile a little. As […]
Read More..>>Gallery: Greatest Movie Monsters of All Time
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Horror, Images
Happy Halloween from Cinematical! As a special treat, we’ve put together this gallery of some of the great movie monsters, from Lon Chaney Sr. as the Phantom in the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera, to Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolfman. We have an array of Dracula’s, from […]
Read More..>>Box Office: To Bee Or Not To Bee
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Comedy | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Box Office, Family Films, Box Office Predictions
As expected, Saw IV continued the franchise’s tradition of tearing it up at the Halloween box office, and Dan in Real Life took second place, placating audiences looking for something milder. The only thing that kept me from a perfect score on […]
Gillian Anderson Loves ‘The Smell of Apples’
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Drama | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Casting, Deals, Scripts & Screenwriting
After wrapping up The X Files, Gillian Anderson practically went into hiding. She’s had a small handful of roles, some time in Bleak House, and that’s about it. But maybe there’s just something about X Files air that makes her feel like working and making the money. She’s […]
‘XXY’ Tops List of Sur Nominees
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Foreign | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Foreign Language, Independent, Awards, Cinematical Indie
Luis Puenzo became the first Argentine Oscar winner in 1986 for his film, The Official Story. Now his daughter Lucía Puenzo is poised for her shot with XXY, as Eric D. Snider told you about in October. The film is making waves as Argentina picked it for their […]
‘X-Files 2′ Gets a Release Date
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Remakes/Sequals | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Distribution, 20th Century Fox, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels
It’s taken a bit of time for the trades to catch up to the long-awaited X-Files sequel, currently being referred to as X-Files 2, but now that they have a flurry of information has hit the net. Variety just announced that […]
“Billy” Campbell Joins ‘Ghost Town’
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Comedy | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Casting, Newsstand
Okay… Before I get to the wonder that is Bruce Campbell, I’ve got to take a second and complain. If you remember anything about our previous coverage of Ghost Town, such as David Koepp signing on to direct Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni signing on, and then Kristen Wiig, […]
Fortissimo Ready to Distribute Some Mapplethorpe
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Gay and Lesbain | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Gay & Lesbian, Independent, Deals, Distribution, Cinematical Indie
Ah, Robert Mapplethorpe. I knew his name long before I ever saw his art. While his photographs were making waves, I would always hear about Mapplethorpe, aka, “That guy who takes pictures of guys peeing on each other.” Obviously, I’d hear lots of good things about […]