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So the year begins! I’m not one to go with trends, so I’m not doing a “Best of 2012” list just yet…mainly because I...
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So the year begins! I’m not one to go with trends, so I’m not doing a “Best of 2012” list just yet…mainly because I...
Every year at Butt Numb-a-Thon, Harry Knowles celebrates his birthday by gathering around 200 of his closest friends and a few lucky hangers-on and...
Incessant commercial jingles on the ’tube. Non-stop radio caroling in the background. Rudolph, Frosty, Heat Miser and Charlie Brown making their ritual annual appearances....
Dear Hollywood, It’s too early for a Films of the Year list, and too obvious to do a Christmas one (it’s all burnt in...
Over the past week I got a chance to catch up with some friends who I hadn’t seen in a while. One of the...
Thanksgiving is a time for just that: giving thanks. We’re supposed gather with our families to give thanks for the people in our lives...
November 2nd 2012 saw the release of the RZA’s long awaited directorial debut The Man with the Iron Fists, starring Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu,...
Samurai films have been a staple of action cinema pretty much since the birth of the art form. Akira Kurosawa made a career and...
November 2nd 2012 sees the highly anticipated release of the RZA’s long awaited directorial debut The Man with the Iron Fists, starring Russell Crowe,...
Ironically, the idea for this particular article came to me as I was mulling over two of my favourite anime – Evangelion and Eureka...
There’s one genre of horror that can leave me quivering on the floor in a gelatinous mass. If done right, it will make me...
‘Underrated’ is a difficult term to pin down. In past years I’ve seen several lists of ‘underrated’ anime on various internet blogs and forums,...
I love Halloween basically for one reason. It’s not the costumes, which put more pressure on me than Christmas ever could. No, it’s the...
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it 100 more times: I love genre films. Horror, sci-fi, thriller, weird…anything that a lot...
This is totally going to sound like a “woe-is-me” article, but I’m going to do it anyway. For seven years, I was a volunteer...
In anticipation of the release of the 23rd 007 adventure Skyfall next month in the U.K.—us chaps here in the U.S. will have to...
Lookout Records, the seminal East Bay label, shut its doors this year, after 25 years of releasing some of the finest punk records on...
Full disclosure here: Steven Spielberg is my favorite director. Ever. Sure, there’s Welles and Hitchcock and Ford and Peckinpah and even Woo. But nothing...
If you could distill my personality and my life into a mix tape, this would be it. The initial draft for this column had...
It’s that time of year again, kids. Yes, I know, you don’t wanna. Butchya hafta! Time to go back to school! But it doesn’t...
Recently, British film magazine Sight & Sound published the results of their Greatest Films Poll, their “once-a-decade critics’ poll — the largest and most...
I love lists that mention fave thangs. It’s fun, although highly subjective, but you can usually come away with learning something ne to add...
I feel like this mix – of punk bands that feature women – needs a small introduction. Let me start by saying that it...
Everybody loves an amusement park, right? All of the rides and shows and, especially, the roller coasters. On August 3, 1946, the first themed...