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We live in a world consumed by superhero entertainment, all of which began as four-color comic book pages about 80 years ago, to a...
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We live in a world consumed by superhero entertainment, all of which began as four-color comic book pages about 80 years ago, to a...
The highly anticipated documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters from filmmakers Kevin Konrad Hanna and Jim Demonakos will be spotlighted in a series of high...
George Michael was a complicated man with the kind of talent that only very few are able to harness. His ability to anticipate trends,...
In 1990 I was a sixteen year-old veteran of the horror movie genre. If there was scary movie sitting on the shelf of my...
I discovered competitive eating on the Fourth of July. A lot of people can probably say the same. For me, it was 2004, and...
Rondo and Bob is an American docu-drama directed by Joe O’Connell that documents the parallel lives and careers of Robert A. Burns, best known...
Directed and produced by Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon, Castro’s Spies tells the story of the Cuban 5, dramatized in the 2019 film, Wasp...
I just watched this great new fairy tale movie. It’s about this boy named Stu who has all these imaginary friends. He grows up...
Vinyl Nation is a 2020 documentary from directors Kevin Smokler and Christoper Boone. If you are of a certain age like myself and can...
As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, TX — especially...
March 8th was International Women’s Day and there really isn’t a better time to talk about a film that was ahead of its time....
I really expected to relate more to the protagonist of the documentary film, Batman and Me. Darren Maxwell aka “Dags,” is a formerly obsessive-compulsive...
Filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz had to come up with some way to make the rest of the world care about her documentary, The Automat, since...
Part standup special, part documentary, Joy Ride is the kind of movie that gifts you 71 minutes of pure unadulterated bliss mixed together with...
Growing up, one of my favorite (and most recognizable) kid actors was Ike Eisnemann. From the television show The Fantastic Journey to appearances on...
For most people outside of the art world, the concept of a painting is pretty basic: Paint on a canvas that is interesting to...
John Legend produced documentary A Crime on the Bayou is a frustrating, soulful, hopeful telling of the events that led to the landmark Supreme...
For Madmen Only is a fascinating look at the cult comedy star Del Close, who never became a household name, but whose radical influence...
My first exposure to Anthony Bourdain was almost twenty years ago when I read his autobiographical manifesto, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly....
When the movie Kids was released in 1995 you would have thought (judging from the gluttonous appetite of journalists covering the film) that it...
Ask me what my all-time favorite comic strip is and, depending on the time of day, I’m likely to say Dick Tracy…or Pogo…or Barnaby…or...
Jackie Collins was a best-selling author of scandalously sexy romance novels whose fame rivaled that of her older sister, Dynasty star Joan Collins. She...
In 1994, Tom Petty broke away from his long-time backing band The Heartbreakers to make what would become his best-selling solo album, “Wildflowers,” which...
In Ursula Macfarlane’s riveting “stranger than fiction” documentary, a man who was kidnapped as a baby and found two years later starts to question...