A Short Interview With Rachel Miner
I got the chance to speak with Rachel Miner (Horrorfests’ Penny Dreadful, Tooth and Nail, and Butterfly Effect 3) at San Diego ComicCon on Saturday. We chatted about her role preparation for Penny Dreadful, her thoughts about being a Scream Queen, how movies and Algebra don’t compliment each other, and how I’m enjoying the Con.
Rachel Miner is a lovely young lady, quick to smile, with an unassuming demeanor that made this less of an interview and more of a friendly conversation.
DVD Review Global Metal
It’s loud. It’s rebellious. It’s obnoxious. Most authority figures don’t like it, and religious leaders believe it’s the moral ruination our youth. And it is the global phenomenon commonly known as heavy metal music. Global you say, how can that be with all the countries that are so restrictive? And so many different types of music styles. That’s what Sam Dunn thought too.
Sam Dunn, anthropologist and metal head, didn’t believe it either, so after his first documentary, Metal: A Headbangers Journey, elicited a global response he decided to film another documentary to investigate just how widespread this phenomenon is. So Sam, together with director Scot McFayden, head off on a multi-country jaunt to track down heavy metal music in the most un-metal places.
Interview and Movie Review for The Collector
Friday night was an event filled evening with a special screening of The Collector and preceded by an interview with Writer Patrick Melton, writer/director Marcus Dunstan, both involved with Feast and Saw IV, V VI, and the films star Josh Stewart.
I have to admit, as I did to them, that my agenda was to meet the men who put Henry Rollins in pink sweats (Feast). Patrick and Marcus admitted that this was actually a concession to the rating, as the script originally called for his pants to be torn off by the creatures and to be nude. Twice. They talked about his intensity and work ethic, how he showed up on time and prepared.
DVD Review: Johnny Got His Gun
Every once in a while a movie comes along that‘s almost perfect and Johnny Got His Gun is one of those. Based on Dalton Trumbo’s (screenwriter Spartacus, Exodus, Roman Holiday) 1939 novel and screenplay, and directed by Dalton Trumbo, this anti-war movie is a work of beauty.
DVD Review Friday The 13th 4, 5, 6
Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter has Jason returning one again from supposed death and wrecking havoc among the youth of Crystal Lake. The surprise is the way Jason is defeated this time. Enter a young Corey Feldman as Tommy.
Special Features
DVD Reviews: Shuttle and Donkey Punch
So we're coming up on that time of year again – vacation time, and Magnet has a couple of movies to make you think twice about how we spend that time.
DVD Review: Time Crime
Time travel usually involves dinosaurs, buying stock in Kodak, futuristic mutants, changing time lines, or just plain old saving the world as we know it. And falling in live with Jane Seymore. But naked women and a deranged man wrapped in pink bandages make for a new twist on an overused subject.
But that’s exactly what the Spanish made Chronocrimenes (Time Crime) does. Regular guy Hector and wife Clara are moving into a new home and Hector spies a naked girl in the woods. When he goes to check out the situation, and who wouldn‘t, finds not only a naked girl but a man with pink bandages wrapped around is head, who stabs Hector with a pair of scissors. In the course of being chased he ends up in a time machine and travels back in time. What unfolds next is quite possibly one of the slickest scripts written.
DVD Review: The Midnight Meat Train Unrated Director’s Cut
Before you were born, or the birth of any other human thing, that’s how long, or longer. And now you found us, as only a few before you have. The intimate circle that keeps the secret, we protect and nurture them and order is thereby preserved. It must be done, to keep the worlds separate. You’ll understand soon enough. Now serve, as we all do, without question.
Movie Review: Dismal
So when you‘re failing College Biology what do you do? Study hard? Get a tutor? Date the T.A.? No, we go on an extra credit field trip to The Great Dismal Swamp.
DVD Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Your mother has gone crazy and tried to kill you, you’re starting a new prep school and everyone knows about your mom. What could be worse? If you’re Molly Hartley, turning 18.
DVD Review: Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Remember the reapers? The Dirty Harry meter maid Roxy (Jasmine Guy – A Different World), actress Daisy (Laura Harris – The Faculty), English slacker Mason(Callum Blue – The Tudors), and newest to the grim reaper ranks, toilet seat girl (remember she was killed by a space station toilet seat), Georgia, “George” Lass (Ellen Muth – Dolores Clairborne), with Rube (Mandy Patinkin – Alien Nation) as the leader of this group.
DVD Review: The Secret Policeman’s Balls
Lets pretend you’re an international organization who‘s interested in human rights. Let’s pretend you’re responsible for the release of hundreds of prisoners in foreign countries and arrange for better conditions for thousands more since 1961. And let’s pretend that in 1976 you’re nearly broke. What to do, what to do? Well, if you‘re Amnesty International you put together an annual concert series, with the help of Monty Python member John Cleese, and eventually call them The Secret Policeman’s Balls.
DVD Review: Dorothy Mills
Remember when watching a foreign film meant sub-titles, out-of-synch dubbing, and plots that make little to no sense at all? The artsy films out of Europe seem to be fewer and further between, because I‘ve seen some really good films in the last few months and the quirky Dorothy Mills is no different.
DVD Review Feast III: The Happy Finish Unrated
In the first movie we spent a night in a bar with a faceless Jason Mewes, Henry Rollins as a motivational speaker in pink sweat pants, a decreasing number of patrons and staff, and couple of big horny monsters and a couple of baby horny monsters. A few people survived to see the sun rise.
DVD Review: Tales from the Darkside, The First Season
Idyllic country scenes, lush fields, serene forests, babbling brooks “Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality, but, there is unseen by most an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit, a darkside”, as the ending scenes turn to the photographic negative.
And so begins each episode of Tales from the Darkside, a half-hour horror anthology series in the vein of The Twilight Zone. The First Season contains 24 episodes, the pilot (1983) and 23 episodes in the first season 9/30/1984 – 8/4/1985), on three discs.
The episode line ups are: