Jeffrey McHale’s You Don’t Nomi, a documentary about his obsession with the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls, was recently screened at the Tribeca Film Festiv...
As part of the No Wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch (nee Koch) made her early mark on the NYC scene at around the same time the punk movement ...
A completely overlooked 1984 Robert Altman film, with an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Baker Hall, is the perfect accompaniment to events transpiring in t...
Portland, Oregon was the site of this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Roger Corman and Vincent Price’s daughter, Victoria Price, were the h...
Putting on punk shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s became near to impossible with the lack of venues and police harassment of those events that did manage ...
Director Allan Arkush Remembers the Madness of Making the 1983 Cult Classic Rock & Roll Comedy Get Crazy (1983), a film that unfairly stands in the shadows ...
Terrence Malick’s emergence as a major American film director (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) followed a trajectory as unlikely as any in cinema h...
Illegally made and exhibited, featuring hardcore sex images and acts, stag films were vital stepping stones toward the sexual revolution of the 1960s. As much t...
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of the Little Rascal’s untimely death have been clouded in Holl...
There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel, Catcher In the Rye, which the other wanted to turn into a movie, ...
As Nile Southern remembers his father on the eve of the 50th birthday of Easy Rider, the screenplay Terry co-wrote, he finds sharp parallels between 1969’s poli...
Steeped in paranormal lore, PKM’s Robyn Hale attended an advanced screening of Annabelle Comes Home in, of all places, Salem, Massachusetts. Ooooooooo, spooky! ...
Rock stars turn up in the unlikeliest of places, even on the silver screen. While some musicians have taken to acting as more than just a part-time gig, others ...
Filmmaker Mu Tunc describes his film, Arada, as “Liquid Sky meets The Decline of Western Civilization,” which, of course, automatically makes it worthy of atten...
