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Russian Doll: Natasha Lyonne's Most Underappreciated Roles
Rosie Fletcher Louisa Mellor Apr 4, 2019 Natasha Lyonne is incredible in Netflix Russian Doll, but she's been doing sterling work for years. Russian Doll is brilliant. But you probably know that by ...
Forbidden Zone Is The Most Colorful Black And White Movie Ever Made
Tony Sokol Mar 21, 2019 You think you’ve seen one-of-a-kind movies? Banana oil! Forbidden Zone, there’s nothing like it. The world of motion pictures is loaded with brilliant films and original ...
Inside Danny Elfman's Twisted Cult Film 'Forbidden Zone'
Long before he wrote the wild, dramatic score for Batman and the twisted song cycle that runs through the beloved Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman's original claim to cinematic fame was far ...
The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action
No film buff wants to see a promising, or prominent filmmaker pull a disappearing act a la Terrence Malick, (though it seems he isn’t keen to repeat another lapse like the one between Days of Heaven ...
Nightmare Presents: Golden Hair, Red Lips by Matthew Bright
It’s time for our October selection of brand new fiction from Nightmare Magazine. This month’s story is “Golden Hair, Red Lips” by Matthew Bright. It’s from Nightmare‘s “Queers Destroy Horror!” ...
Tiff’s 25 Years of Midnight Madness: Best of the Fest #2
Tiff’s Midnight Madness program turned 25 this year, and for two and half decades, the hardworking programers have gathered some of the strangest, most terrifying, wild, intriguing and downright ...
K-11 | Review
Hamshank Redemption: Stewart’s Debut a Trashy, Lurid Queersploitation Effort Jules Stewart, mother of that actress Kristen Stewart, makes a curious and fascinatingly trashy exploitation grindhouse ...
Blu-ray Review: Forbidden Zone
Forbidden Zone Stars: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Joe Spinell | Written and Directed by Richard Elfman The question is when looking ...
Arrow Video’s May 2012 line-up revealed
It’s time for another update from our friends at Arrow Video, this time previewing their <ay 2012 releases which include the long-awaited Blu-ray release of the House By the Cemetary and the ...
Arrow Video – Spring Preview
Along with their April 2012 line-up, the good folks at Arrow Video have also released a sneak preview of their other forthcoming Spring releases – including a Blu-ray release for House By the Cemetery ...
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Red Riding Hood; The Veteran; Tomorrow, When the War Began; Scream 4 Considering the affection and admiration which I hold for Catherine Hardwicke's work on the much-mocked (but much more loved) ...
'Tiptoes' is real. Really. Watch the trailer.
Thanks to last night’s Tosh.0′s “Spoiler Alert” movie segment, the film Tiptoes — which stars Matthew McConaughey as a man worried that the child Kate Beckinsale is about to deliver will be a dwarf ...
Red Riding Hood Trailer | What Big Eyes You Have, Amanda Seyfried
Here's the trailer for Red Riding Hood, a retelling of the classic fairy tale about, well, a girl, her hood, and a wolf. It stars the delicious Amanda Seyfried, as well as Billy Burke, Virginia ...
Susanna Lo to helm 'The Manson Girls' with Thora Birch
Susanna Lo is taking over the writing and directing of the long-talked-about Manson Girls movie. Beginning in February 2011, acclaimed filmmaker Susanna Lo (Black & White: A Love Story) is the new ...
Lohan Out, Thora Birch Joins Manson Girls
'Manson Girls', not to be confused with the UK DVD release 'Manson Girl' (Aka: 'Manson, My Name Is Evil'), has reportedly gone through a couple of casting and directorial changes. Susanna Lo is taking ...
Thora Birch Becomes One of the Manson Girls
Charlie's legacy, as infamous as it is, will surely live on long after we're all gone. Word just came down about some recent changes to the latest flick based on his madness, and we're here to fill in ...
'Manson Girls' Finds New Ringleader, Cast
Bloody Disgusting just received word that Susanna Lo is replacing Matthew Bright as the writer/director of Manson Girls, which will now begin shooting in February. As previously reported, Lindsay ...
Review of Richard Elfman's cult masterpiece Forbidden Zone in color!
Year: 2009 Directors: Richard Elfman Writers: Richard Elfman & Matthew Bright & Nick James & Nick L. Martinson IMDb: link Trailer: link Review by: Hal MacDermot Rating: 8.8 out of 10 The ...
Reese Witherspoon as a Bad 'Pharm Girl'?
Drugs could make a good girl go bad. Reese Witherspoon, who rose to stardom as a good girl in bubbly comedies Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama before winning an Oscar for the dramatic Walk the ...
Watch This: Ever See Gary Oldman, Little Person?
One day I was strolling alongside bins of super-cheap used DVDs when I spotted Gary Oldman's face. The DVD in question: Tiptoes, directed by the writer/director of Freeway, Matthew Bright. Naturally, ...