Get a glimpse of our imminent future in ‘2019: After the Fall of New York’
A few years back, I wrote about the really bad science fiction/action film, Firebird 2015 A.D. (1981). That movie, like so many dystopian pictures produced…
Movies Archives: 11/2018
‘Population: 1’: The post-apocalyptic art punk film that starred Tomata du Plenty of The Screamers
The Screamers may have never released any music, but their punk legacy lives on through the rough bootleg tapes and high-energy video recordings that have…
Watching ‘The Prisoner’ with ‘Repo Man’ director Alex Cox
It turns out leaving your house still pays sometimes: if I hadn’t stepped into a bookstore last weekend, I would be unaware of Alex Cox’s…
Tiny Tim, the Cleveland Browns and a bear made a sword and sorcery movie
As an answer to “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” the 1986 Cleveland Browns released this short fantasy film on home video. It co-stars Tiny Tim and…
The fascinating world of tribute bands
I’m fascinated by the subculture of tribute bands. The groups that are serious work hard to replicate whatever act they are paying tribute to, and…
Cast and crew remember Orson Welles and his legendary film ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ in 1993 doc
We’re on the eve of Netflix’s worldwide debut of The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles’s legendary unreleased film. After four decades in limbo,…