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Exclusive Interview & Pics: Jim Wynorski’s “Giant Gila Monster” Remake
14 December 2011 3:48 PM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Indie legend and Corman go-to-guy Jim (Chopping Mall, Return Of The Swamp Thing) Wynorski is helming a remake of the notorious 1959 Ray Kellogg creature feature The Giant Gila Monster. Famous Monsters sat down with Jim to chat about the project and share some production pics. The film, aiming for SyFy release in 2012, is currently shooting in Franklin, Indiana, just outside Indianapolis.
Despite wearing it’s meager budget on it’s sleeve, the original Gila made an impression on Wynorski that endured as he made his way in Hollywood. “I saw it on TV when I was a kid, and even then I understood it was a cheaply made movie,” shares the director. “It didn’t have a big budget, but it had a cool premise with the hot rods and rock n’ roll. When the film fell into public domain, it was always in the back of my mind to »
- Justin
Review: Tom Waits' 'Bad as Me' Couldn't Be Better
25 October 2011 3:17 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Tom Waits has been called a lot of things, but “rockabilly cat” was probably never among them. That’s just one of many guises the veteran eccentric takes on in “Bad as Me,” his first all-new release in eight years and a leading album-of-the-year contender. Just when you think you’ve got Waits half-figured, the king of grizzled-dom -- and musical gristle -- goes all Eddie Cochran on us in “Get Lost.” “Roll down all the windows, turn up Wolfman Jack/Please, please love me tender, ain’t nothin’ wrong with that,” he sings, sounding »
- Chris Willman
'Bad As Me' Review
24 October 2011 7:07 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
-- Tom Waits, "Bad as Me" (Anti-)
Tom Waits' first album of new music in seven years is a satisfying treat spanning his various sounds and styles. The 61-year-old musician is in peak form, working his voice like another one of his instruments – spitting and wailing on some tracks, charming with his haunting falsetto on another.
Waits brings in a host of celebrated musicians to help him tell stories about heartache, war, life and living on "Bad as Me." Bluesman Charlie Musselwhite contributes harmonica to several tracks; veteran keyboardist Augie Meyers plays piano, organ and accordion; David Hidalgo of Los Lobos plays guitar on a few songs, as does the legendary Keith Richards, while Flea and Les Claypool contribute bass lines. Waits' son, Casey Waits, plays drums on most of the album's 13 tracks (The deluxe version has three additional songs).
"Bad as Me" opens with "Chicago," a mood-setting, rollicking »
- AP
B-Sides - A Thriller Rip-Off That'll Make You Want to Get Dead
22 October 2011 12:17 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Sometimes imitation can lead to sincere embarrassment. I’ll let you decide if sitting through this song & dance number clearly inspired by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video from the 1985 TV horror musical The Midnight Hour will make you want to get dead.
It must be said that The Midnight Hour boasted quite an eclectic cast of B and C list actors, some whose careers had long since peaked and others who would go on to become better known than they were at the time they appeared in this.
The bell of this monster’s ball was Shari Belafonte. “Get Dead” was her big musical number, and it delivered everything you could expect from a cheesy TV movie stab at recreating the aesthetics »
- Foywonder
Weekend Meme: John Barrowman's Twitter Scavenger Hunt, "Wilfred" Gets Renewed, and John Krasinski In a Bikini
6 August 2011 11:13 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
J.Lo's ex (the first one) Ojani Noa is currently finalizing a deal to pose for Playgirl. The sticking point in the negotiations isn't "if" he'll do full frontal, but if they'll pay him enough for full frontal. Just what does full frontal go for these days?
FX has renewed Louie, Wilfred, and given a double order to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I'm just hoping that Wilfred can stay delightfully twisted for an extended run. How long can Elijah dog sit and get high before he's living in Wilfred's dog house after foreclosure?
15 Things That Look Gay, But Aren't
When I first heard they were going to make a Celebrity Wife Swap, I couldn't imagine what kind of celebrity would do something like that. Now I know: Dee Snider and Flavor Flav. Makes perfect sense.
I'm not quite conversant enough to understand the impact, but there'snow a legal case »
- Ed Kennedy
Hot Rods & Droids: A George Lucas Profile (Part 2)
21 June 2011 11:56 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the second of a six part feature... read part one here.
“After Thx 1138 [1971], I wanted to do Flash Gordon and tried to buy the rights to it from King Features, but they wanted a lot of money for it, more than I could afford then,” stated American filmmaker George Lucas who came up with a creative solution. “I realized that I could make up a character as easily as Alex Raymond, who took his character from Edgar Rice Burroughs. It’s your basic superhero in outer space. I realized that what I really wanted to do was a contemporary action fantasy.” The native of Modesto, California was revisiting a childhood fascination. “As a kid, I read a lot of science fiction. But instead of reading technical, hard-science writers like Isaac Asimov, I was interested in Harry Harrison and a fantastic, »
- flickeringmyth
Hot Rods & Droids: A George Lucas Profile (Part 1)
15 June 2011 12:06 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the first of a six part feature...
“I was as normal as you can get,” stated American filmmaker George Lucas when reflecting upon his childhood. “I wanted a car and hated school. I was a poor student. I lived for summer vacations and got into trouble a lot shooting out windows with my Bb gun.” The California native was not initially drawn to the medium which would bring him fame and fortune. “Modesto was a small town, and there were only a couple of theatres. When I went to the movies I really didn’t pay much attention. I was usually looking for girls or to goof off.” George Lucas, Senior owned a stationary store where he sold office supplies and equipment to support his son, three daughters, and frequently invalid wife. “He was conservative, and I’m very conservative, »
- flickeringmyth
American Graffiti Special Edition DVD Review
21 May 2011 9:28 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Back when he made good movies, and just prior to leaving an indelible impression on the cinematic landscape with Star Wars, George Lucas co-wrote and directed a low-budget masterpiece called American Graffiti. An ensemble nostalgia film that takes place over the course of a single night in 1962, the movie, like all great films, can’t be tucked into a neat box, genre-wise. It manages to transcend genre and be all at once funny, sad, exhilarating, and touching (Yes, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused owes more than a little to this movie). Hit the jump for my review of American Graffiti on DVD. The story, which focuses primarily on four characters (that of the standup citizen, the rebel, the nerd, the most badass racer on the Strip), is a seamless blend of vignettes all moving towards the sunrise. And as with any influential and brilliant work of art, success can »
- Gil Kellerman
Clip joint: Facial stroking
24 March 2011 4:37 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A selection of the best clips in which actors try to touch the audience by touching themselves
Jerry Seinfeld once did a standup routine lampooning a survey which found that people's number one fear was "public speaking", with "death" coming in second. Seinfeld got big laughs from this seeming absurdity, but unless you're suffering a terminal illness, death is something you probably expect to happen fairly unexpectedly, whereas public-speaking obligations generally come with plenty of dread-inducing advance notice. What coping strategies can sufferers of acute self-consciousness adopt? Well, getting roaring drunk beforehand, or simply failing to turn up, can be effective. But most of us rely on less extreme measures, resorting to what psychologists call (and, please, no sniggering at the back) the "self-touch" gesture: coughing, nose-rubbing, hair-fixing, forehead-massaging, ear-scratching, etc.
Offering a way of grounding ourselves against the static of social awkwardness, the self-touch is actually quite an actorly »
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