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Soundtrack Saturday: “Gremlins”

Kelly Stitzel December 12, 2009 15

Here’s the thing — I love holiday-themed horror films. In fact, one of my favorite Christmas movies is the original Black Christmas (1974). You may think that makes me sick and twisted, but I’m

TV Review: “Independent Lens – No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos”

Ken Shane November 19, 2009 1

The latest installment of the vaunted PBS series Independent Lens is No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos. The documentary about the legendary Hungarian cinematographers debuts this week around the country. Check your local listings

Revival House: “We Are Not Alone”

Jeff Johnson November 4, 2009 6

Featuring Richard Dreyfuss, a massive spacecraft, and five of the most iconic notes in movie-music history, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of Jeff Johnson's all-time favorites

Bootleg City: Matthew McConaughey’s Favorite Songs of the Late ’90s

Robert Cass September 4, 2009 10

Hey, y’all. Matthew McConaughey here, fillin’ in for Mr. Mayor of Bootleg City this week. Cassanova gave me a jingle-jangle the other day and said, “Matty Mac, do me a solid and make a

Revival House: Ten Great Remakes

Jeff Johnson August 25, 2009 15

Remakes are all the rage in Hollywood these days, and "rage" is the popular filmgoer response to most of them -- but as Jeff Johnson points out in his latest Revival House, a remake

Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

DVD Review: “Blindness”

Bob Cashill February 10, 2009 1

End-of-the-Earth sagas are a staple of horror and sci-fi, but it’s not just genre directors who make them. Filmmakers of all kinds are drawn to doomsday stories, as if they tire of creating worlds