We are a little over halfway through the entirety of Beyond Fest 2022. We’ve had some awesome screenings. Mind-melting, one-of-a-kind screenings that have surely kicked all of our asses. Every day, I bemoan the world’s lack of cloning technology, because I wish I could make copies of myself to be…

Am I writing about an American Cinematheque retrospective again? The answer is yes. For George Miller, the answer will always be, yes, I will write about this director. Miller is a lot of things that might surprise you. He’s the son of Greek immigrants to Australia. He’s a physician who…

The American Cinematheque is doing yet another service to the Los Angeles community this weekend. For the first time since 1997, the iconoclastic auteur director Peter Greenaway is in Los Angeles for the film series retrospective MOVING PICTURES: THE FILMS AND TEACHINGS OF PETER GREENAWAY. I strongly urge cinema fans…

Here’s the footage from the new Dwayne Johnson DC superhero film Black Adam that just premiered in Hall H at Comic-Con this morning. Yes, Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam, superhero/antihero. https://youtu.be/DvCFc5JtkkA “THE WORLD NEEDED A HERO AND IT GOT BLACK ADAM Unconventional, uncompromising, fueled by the depths of his pain…

Warner Brothers announced today that principal photography has officially begun for the fifth film set in the dystopian Hell world of the MAD MAX films, FURIOSA, in New South Wales, Australia. It will almost certainly be another raging epic of action starring Anya Taylor-Joy (THE WITCH, THE NORTHMAN) as the…

The Yellow Wallpaper is based on a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It’s the same story that was one of the influences behind Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic. A classic of early feminist horror literature, it was published in 1892. This tells you that women have been very tired of not…

DEADSTREAM is a fantastic horror comedy. The film wants to be funny and it is. It’s also really scary. …

Dennis Hopper’s third film as a director is OUT OF THE BLUE. It’s not as famous as EASY RIDER or infamous as THE LAST MOVIE, the film that almost ended his career, but it’s a powerful one just the same. It stars Linda Manz (Days of Heaven, The Wanderers, The…

Let me tell you the story of why I hate my aunt, my only living close family member, and how I got Covid 19. I got priced and bad roommate-d out of Los Angeles. I was forced, after being pushed out of my home, by my psycho ex-boyfriend, the replacement…