Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 06/2017

It’s a curious fact that the first two VHS products the Cure put out were both Japan-only releases, and both are rather difficult to find…

Face it, we live in an era defined by “fake news,” identity theft, and countless nefarious schemes to separate you from your money through false…

A Madrid judge has ordered the exhumation of the body of Salvador Dalí to adjudicate a paternity claim on behalf of Maria Pilar Abel Martínez,…

We’ve noted before that the merchandising arm connected with Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie of 1979 didn’t seem to know anything about the movie. (For…

Sure, everyone knows about Stonehenge, but it might not be quite as widely known that stone rings and megaliths dating back several thousand years, well…

John Cage performs with a feather while George Plimpton narrativizes (inset) George Orwell’s sinister novel Nineteen Eighty-Four made it inevitable that the arrival of his…

The first thing you see when you watch W.T. Morgan’s 1986 documentary The Unheard Music about the difficult-to-Google Los Angeles punk band X is a…

The prospect of catastrophic nuclear war has an interesting effect on the human psyche. My dad used to work for a man named Herman Kahn,…

Don’t look now, but it seems that Wayne Kramer, of the legendary MC5, has suddenly discovered his YouTube account and decided to use it to…

‘American Venus,’ Joe Coleman’s portrait of Jayne Mansfield The Girl Can’t Help It is Frank Tashlin’s sophomoric and wildly entertaining 1956 salute to the throbbing…