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Do You Wanna Dance? Allan Arkush Remembers Rock 'N Roll High School

10 May 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

(Rock 'n Roll High School director Allan Arkush, above. Photo courtesy of NBC.)

by Jon Zelazny

Editor’s Note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on April 24th.

Jersey City native Allan Arkush has enjoyed a prolific career in television, currently producing and directing for the hit series “Heroes.”

He started in show business at Bill Graham’s legendary Fillmore East concert theater in New York City, then worked for the equally legendary low-budget movie producer Roger Corman. 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Arkush’s solo directorial debut, the beloved cult classic Rock ‘n Roll High School.

I met with Arkush in his home office in West Los Angeles, and tried to keep from drooling all over his killer record collection.

Did you go to Springsteen last night? I thought he was amazing.

Allan Arkush: He really was. I thought it was interesting that he started out with some fairly dark songs: “Badlands,

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How Did I Not Know About 'Theodore Rex'?

29 April 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Many thanks to Big Picture reader Sophia, who sent this video over to me. I swear I have no memory of this film, perhaps because it went straight to DVD here in the states. Plus, to say I closely followed Whoopi Goldberg's acting career would be, at best, inaccurate.

But I think I must have seen the name of this movie in her bio at some point. Still, I wasn't interested enough to discover that Theodore Rex was a futuristic Turner & Hooch, replacing Tom Hanks with Whoopi and instead of a big slobbering dog, Goldberg's partner was a wisecracking dinosaur. No, not Jerry Orbach, but a real dinosaur.

Theodore Rex came out in 1995, which is truly astonishing. It looks like a 1985 movie in the trailer, like some kind of misguided reaction to Howard the Duck. Even worse, the film cost $33 million! What the hell? Who approved that?

So please,

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Colin Boyd

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Top 5 Jean Claude Van Damme films

28 April 2009 3:28 PM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news

Hard Target For 20 years Hong Kong director John Woo was the driving force in film on the Pacific Rim. Following the success of The Killer, Woo's 1989 masterpiece of operatic violence, he made out to Hollywood with his chop-socky. Hard Target. Woo's American debut took the Belgium-born Jean-Claude Van Damme to new lows of clunky one-liners and preposterous action scenes forcing you to suspend you disbelief to a max. However Hard Target proved that John Woo was the hottest name in action at the time Double Impact Shot on location in Hong Kong, the film contains not one but two Van Dammes. Jcvd plays twin brothers. The gimmick is to pit Van Damme up against Van Damme which successfully works when one brother in a drunken and jealous rage believes that the other is sleeping with his girlfriend. The film also includes Bolo Yeung as the villain and a muscle-bound lesbian

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Ricky

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Holy Terror!: 11 Creepy Catholic Horror Films

14 March 2009 6:25 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Holy Terror: The Catholic Church in Modern Horror Cinema

The Roman Catholic Church has been an inspiration for the macabre and terrifying for, well, centuries. Most recently there was a revival in interest in the religious, supernatural horror film in the early to mid 2000's in a cycle that ran from Stigmata to The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Horror rose to prominence and box office success in the 1970's with a long running series of films peppered with deeply religious themes. The church was under scrutiny in The Omen. a willing participant in the phenomenon that was The Exorcist. Beyond the obvious possession, Antichrist, and exorcism themed ripoffs there was the unique and internationally successful Blind Dead series with this undead crusading Templar Knights. The sleazy child murders of Fulci's Don't Torture A Ducking and the American giallo Alice, Sweet, Alice both featured heavy Catholic overtones. Further back we

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Dueling pundits predict who'll win the SAG Awards

24 January 2009 11:33 PM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

Hey, where's Robert "Rob L" Licuria? He hasn't responded to my challenge to take on fellow forums moderator Chris "Boomer" Beachum in a new matchup to predict who'll win the Screen Actors Guild Awards this Sunday night. Recently, Boomer whacked Rob in a clash over predicting the most Oscar nominations, but, hey, he was just evening the score. Back in September Rob crushed Boomer when they went at it over who'd win the Primetime Emmys. Hey, Rob — you finally battle weary?

Ok, I'll take ya on, Boomer! Unfortunately, for the sake of drama — and isn't that what showbiz is all about? — we don't disagree on many categories, but I'll come out swinging where I see a weak spot. We must, after all, keep Derbyites entertained as well as informed.

See a list of gutsy SAG Awards predix from other top pundits who shared their views with Gold Derby. Also, check

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