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Last week, a splashy new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s feverishly anticipated sci-fi epic Interstellar arrived. Along with a wider glimpse of the scope of...
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Last week, a splashy new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s feverishly anticipated sci-fi epic Interstellar arrived. Along with a wider glimpse of the scope of...
It’s true that bad movies can happen to good people. But, what about an entire career of bad movies? To that, I say, bad...
As a brand new resident of Brooklyn who also happens to be a serious film geek, one of the most exciting features of discovering...
Last week’s Oscars show played out as it normally does: speeches and montages of the Hollywood film industry insisting on its self-importance — its...
We spoke with filmmaker and G.I. Joe fan Mark Cheng (Operation: Red Retrieval – G.I. Joe Fan Film, 2011) about his newest project, an...
I won’t lie: Few things make me die of boredom faster than a dark re-imagining of a fairy tale. That’s what I thought when...
Review by Dean Galanis Writer/director/sometime actor Greydon Clark was a prolific independent filmmaker in the 70s, 80s and 90s. His output ranged from schlock...
Interview conducted by Stefan Blitz Despite Frankenstein’s Army being his first film as a feature director, Richard Raaphorst is a consummate filmmaker, racking up...
Guy Benoit and Richard Griffin, the creative force behind Exhumed For over a decade, Richard Griffin has been an extremely busy filmmaker, directing features...
By Stefan Blitz FilmCraft: Producing By Geoffrey Macnab & Sharon Swart Focal Press At 192 pages, Macnab & Swart’s FilmCraft: Producing feels like a...
Hey, Briggonauts. I can’t sugar-coat this one. It trended (sadly) all over the web three days ago, and the Fan-O-Sphere had a collective group...
Hey, Brigateers! It was a struggle to get this week’s piece together (slightly late: sorry, Ed), as my last few weeks have been jam-packed...
Hi, Crazy-Gang. And, welcome to this week’s “Penned-So-Randomly-It’s-As-If-I’m-Rolling-Dice” go-round of everything that tickles my cerebellum. I’ve had an exhausting rollercoaster of a week. Unfortunately,...
Easily the biggest piece of entertainment news this month was that the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign raised several million dollars overnight. As many people...
Let’s ring in the New Year with a particularly tremulous Spasm. I have seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and offer a few choice...
OKAY, it’s 8:00 and there’s a half hour to go until the show starts! I decided to skip the usual 18 hours of pre-show...
The Kuchar Brothers were (along with Kenneth Anger) among the earliest originators and innovators of what we now know think of as independent film. John Waters...