Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Well he didn’t get up and walk out on his own” With the amount of 1980s horror films that go all-in on the blood and gore from frame one, the few that don’t can’t help but standout. What’s funny is that the latter were the types I disliked as a kid. I remember watching Joe […]
Category film reviews, horror · Tags Belinda Balaski, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Dick Miller, Don McLeod, Elisabeth Brooks, Gary Brandner, Joe Dante, John Sayles, Patrick Macnee, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Robert Picardo, Terence H. Winkless, The Howling, Thursday Night Terrors
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 20, 2015 · 1 Comment
“What’d you call this? The putrid stage?” There had been gremlins in existence before the diminutive green monsters screenwriter Chris Columbus, director Joe Dante, and creature creator Chris Walas imagined and yet theirs are the ones we immediately think about when the word is uttered. The design is a far cry from Bugs Bunny’s colorful […]
Category comedy, film reviews, holiday, horror · Tags Chris Columbus, Chris Walas, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, Frances Lee McCain, Gremlins, Howie Mandel, Hoyt Axton, Joe Dante, Keye Luke, Phoebe Cates, Polly Holliday, Zach Galligan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill […]
Category film features, posterized propaganda · Tags A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ali Larter, Alien, Alpha Dog, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, AV Squad Print, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bemis Balkind, Benjamin Walker, Blood & Chocolate, BLT Communications LLC, Brave, Cardinal Communications USA, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Crazy Stupid Love, Creative Partnership, Crew Creative Advertising, Def Leppard, Dwayne Labuschagne, Family Guy, FIVE33, Gravillis Inc., High School, Ignition Print, Jaws, Joe Dante, Joe Versus the Volcano, John Alvin, John Stalberg, Keira Knightley, Like Crazy, Lola Versus, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Magic Mike, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mark Wahlberg, mOcean, Noomi Rapace, People Like Us, Piranha 3D, Piranha 3DD, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Rock of Ages, Roger Kastel, Safety Not Guaranteed, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Seth MacFarlane, Snow White and the Huntsman, Steve Carell, Steven Soderbergh, Studio 54, Ted, The Arterie, The Refinery, The Robot Eye, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Social Network, The Two Towers, To Rome with Love, TRON, Wieslaw Rosocha, Wilfred, Woody Allen, WORKS ADV, Zelig
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“We are off to shoot some wild porn with these wild, wild goddesses” You have to respect Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja—although question how a guy who made his name with Haute tension could have his career fall to comedic horrors—and writers Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg for giving credit where credit was due, specially […]
Category comedy, film reviews, horror · Tags Adam Scott, Alexandre Aja, Dina Meyer, Eli Roth, Elisabeth Shue, Haute tension, Jaws, Jerry O'Connell, Jessica Szohr, Joe Dante, Josh Stolberg, Kelly Brook, Léo Delibes, Party Down, Pete Goldfinger, Piranha, Piranha 3D, Ricardo Chavira, Richard Dreyfus, Riley Steele, Roger Corman, Step Brothers, Steven R. McQueen, Steven Spielberg, Ving Rhames
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Human life was cheap, film was cheap—it was a great place to make a picture” As the most telling quote of Machete Maidens Unleashed! exclaims, “The stories are 10 times better than the actual films”. The anecdotes and memories of those involved in the Filipino exploitation genre of cinema are an amazing account of a […]
Category documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, new york asian film festival · Tags Apocalypse Now, Beyond Atlantis, Bobby A. Suarez, Cirio H. Santiago, Cleopatra Wong, Dick Randall, Eddie Romero, Hemisphere Pictures, Hollywood Boulevard, Jack Hill, James Bond, Jaws, Joe Dante, Joe Viola, John Landis, Jonathan Demme, Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Mark Hartley, New World Pictures, New York Asian Film Festival, Pam Grier, Piranha, Quentin Tarantino, R. Lee Ermey, Roger Corman, Sid Haig, Star Wars: A New Hope, T.N.T. Jackson, The Big Doll House, The Hot Box, Up from the Depths, Weng Weng
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