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MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST Feed your film jones with MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST! In every 10 - 15 minute episode, you'll join film journalist Dan Persons (Independent Film Channel; Air America) as he takes you behind the scenes for a lively conversation with some of the most innovative and intriguing filmmakers working today.
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Carsten Höller at New Museum: Challenging the Senses (Sponsored Post) Updated: 2011-11-09 21:24:22 Description: I’m a lucky guy. I’ve wanted a reason to break out of my cramped, unkempt studio and check out Carsten Höller: Experience, the new exhibit at the New Museum that provides a comprehensive survey of the German-born artist known for his imm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrea Blaugrund Nevins & Cristan Reilly on THE OTHER F WORD Updated: 2011-10-28 15:47:18 Description: It’s a curious path that takes one from rock outcast to full fatherhood, yet many of the practitioners of that most confrontational of musical forms, punk, find themselves following it. In THE OTHER F WORD, filmmakers Andrea Blaugrund Nevins ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: BLACK DYNAMITE Updated: 2011-10-27 20:19:39 Description: Come 2012, Adult Swim is going to get bad-ass. In honor of the grand and sometimes delirious world of blaxploitation, they’ve latched onto the 2009 feature satire, BLACK DYNAMITE, and are bringing it to the video screen as half-hour, animated serie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: Jim Henson & TALE OF SAND Updated: 2011-10-27 18:06:18 Description: Lest we forget that Jim Henson was about more than Kermit and Big Bird (ahem, DARK CRYSTAL, THE STORYTELLER, and on, and on…), this year’s New York Comic Con staged a panel in which Henson archivist Karen Falk and Archaia Editor-in-Chief Stephen ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: DEATH VALLEY Updated: 2011-10-25 20:13:54 Description: MTV’s making a big pitch to get back into the genre game, what with the resurrection of BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD and LIQUID TELEVISION. And, speaking of resurrections, there’s also DEATH VALLEY, a gory/funny exploration of what happens when the undea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Updated: 2011-10-24 03:29:38 Description: And so the story of two sisters vexed by supernatural forces — as captured by conveniently located video cameras — continues, or begins, or ends depending on how you want to look at it, in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3. Another prequel set in 1988 and pu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: ATTACK THE BLOCK’s Joe Cornish Updated: 2011-10-21 14:12:28 Description: You gotta love an alien invasion film where the aliens make the serious mistake of trying to invade some council estates (read, “projects”) in London and discover that the street-tough kids there are not going to yield the territory without racki...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: Roger Corman Updated: 2011-10-19 15:09:44 Description: You never forget your first Roger Corman film. Mine was THE TERROR, which I admittedly was drawn to out of a combined curiosity over a film that was shot in two days on leftover sets, and that featured a young Jack Nicholson before he became THE Jack...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: THE VENTURE BROS’ Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer Updated: 2011-10-17 16:42:41 Description: Yes, Cinefantastique Online was at the just-wrapped New York Comic Con 2011, and we’re going to be bringing you tons o’ goodies — in both audio and video form — over the coming days (and weeks!). But we figured we should start you off the wit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: REAL STEEL Updated: 2011-10-09 20:11:02 Description: The official Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots movie is still in the planning stages, but until then, we have REAL STEEL, the Disney/DreamWorks family-friendly take on a world in which the squared circle has been commandeered by mechanical pugilists while...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tom Six & Laurence R. Harvey on THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) Updated: 2011-10-07 16:04:15 Description: The tag line for Tom Six’s new THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) is “100% Medically Inaccurate,” tipping those who witnessed the merciless onslaught that was THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) that the follow-up is, if anythin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: DREAM HOUSE Updated: 2011-10-03 13:17:33 Description: Winner of this year’s Ironic Film Title ribbon (SARAH PALIN: THE UNDEFEATED was disqualified for failure to complete a term — talk about ironic) DREAM HOUSE marks director Jim Sheridan’s attempt to explore the world of the psychological thrille...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeff Nichols on TAKE SHELTER Updated: 2011-10-01 13:19:35 Description: Roland Emmerich can bite me. The guy’s been making disaster films since time can remember, yet for all his besetting humans with floods, fires, and earthquakes (and the occasional alien invasion), he’s never managed to make something as r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: LION KING 3D & MST3K VS. GAMERA Updated: 2011-09-19 12:49:37 Description: There were no new genre films in theaters this weekend, but there was one old one in a shiny new, 3D coat: THE LION KING 3D, which just so happened to top this week’s box-office. With a prescience befitting a Cinefantastique editor, Steve Biodrowsk...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicolas Winding Refn on DRIVE Updated: 2011-09-16 15:38:44 Description: Somehow, it seems like it was only a matter of time before director Nicolas Winding Refn hitched his camera to a hurtling piece of American metal and did a full-on car chase film. In DRIVE, Ryan Gosling plays a guy named… wait for it… Dri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: CONTAGION Updated: 2011-09-11 20:26:23 Description: Break out the Purell, Steven Soderbergh is in mainstream thriller mode and he’s decided to get under your skin — almost literally — with a tale about a virus that doesn’t know when to quit. CONTAGION follows Soderbergh’s TRAFFIC template, s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pamela Yates on GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR Updated: 2011-09-11 14:36:30 Description: Listen, there’s nothing particularly wrong with a documentary about the war between two Donkey Kong champions; it’s very good, actually (it’s KING OF KONG, in fact). It’s just that you have to admit that there’s a consid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: SHARK KNIGHT 3D & APOLLO 18 Updated: 2011-09-04 16:32:27 Description: Yes, we’re deliberately misspelling SHARK KNIGHT. Why? Well, because it’s Labor Day weekend, and also because it amuses us to think of an insatiable predator of the deep leering in towards a nubile, young twenty-something, unleashing his awful, t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tsui Hark on DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME Updated: 2011-09-02 16:34:07 Description: Cause for celebration, indeed: Hong Kong director Tsui Hark is back, and if anything, his vision has gotten more crazily energetic and eye-dazzling in his latest effort. In DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, Andy Lau plays actual his...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Updated: 2011-08-30 12:59:21 Description: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, the title urges, but you know they’re lying. There are things hiding in the dark, little things, nasty things, things that want nothing better than to drag you down, down to the caverns where they dwell in order to, w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Troy Nixey on DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK: Special “Goodnight Hurricane Irene” Edition Updated: 2011-08-26 19:58:52 Description: Guillermo del Toro says that, as a kid, he harbored great affection for the TV-movie version of DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, enough so that he and his friends used to creep each other out merely by whispering the name, “Salllllleeeee.R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz on THE INTERRUPTERS Updated: 2011-08-24 18:16:38 Description: In the movies, one man and one gun is all it takes to keep the peace. In reality, when you’re talking about the fear, anger, and frustration generated from poverty and exacerbated by drugs, territorial conflict, and just plain ego, a more empat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: FRIGHT NIGHT Updated: 2011-08-21 20:22:43 Description: There goes the neighborhood. Charismatically feral vampire Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves into a struggling Las Vegas suburb, and it’s up to teen lovers Charley (Anton Yelchin) and Amy (Imogen Poots) to keep property values from seriously bottoming ou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Sayles on AMIGO Updated: 2011-08-19 15:34:22 Description: Director John Sayles is delving into history again, and this time it’s a little bit of American adventurism in the early twentieth century that’s frequently glossed over in the history books: the Philippine-American War. In AMIGO, Filipin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CFQ’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge: Cashier du Cinemart’s Mike White & 3-Descent Updated: 2011-08-18 15:11:44 Description: Cashiers du Cinemart’s Mike White hangs out after the Cinefantastique Spotlight to talk to Dan Persons about his magazine, his anthology, Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, the clouded future of 3D, and, of course, the indelible a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: FINAL DESTINATION 5 Updated: 2011-08-15 00:50:43 Description: Okay, so they called the previous installment THE FINAL DESTINATION, as if that was going to be the last chapter of the franchise. So what? Like you never said, “This one’s the last French fry,” and then went on shoveling the spuds down your gu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Plympton on THE FLYING HOUSE Updated: 2011-08-12 19:08:36 Description: Think of it as one spiritual brother reaching out to another over the span of almost an entire century: Bill Plympton — the innovative animator known for his edgy surrealism and distinctive, hand-drawn style — has decided to rejuvenate th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CFQ’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge: Return to the Escape from the Conquest of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes Updated: 2011-08-11 01:45:58 Description: A post-show conversation between theofantastique.com’s John W. Morehead and Cinefantastique Online’s Lawrence French and Dan Persons about the PLANET OF THE APESfranchise in general, and RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES in specific. RISE OF THE ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Updated: 2011-08-08 01:04:32 Description: Startling the studios, startling the critics, and startling its delighted audiences, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has arrived to prove that a reboot — in the hands of a skilled director and inspired writers, actors and effects artists — does no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Evan Glodell on BELLFLOWER Updated: 2011-08-06 13:44:25 Description: The course of true love is never easy. When an imposing, MAD-MAX-like, fire-breathing automobile intervenes, it can get downright complicated. Evan Glodell’s BELLFLOWER is the tale of two Southern Californians — Woodrow (Glodell) and Aide...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: COWBOYS AND ALIENS Updated: 2011-08-01 13:53:25 Description: It’s genre-meets-genre at your local multiplex, and not since Gene Autry faced down an advanced, subterranean civilization in PHANTOM EMPIRE has the American west faced such daunting enemies as are encountered in COWBOYS AND ALIENS. With Harris...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Updated: 2011-07-25 14:06:50 Description: We’re betting Paramount would’ve preferred that CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER had come out on the Memorial Day or July 4th weekends. However, martial-arts-happy animals and big-ass robots claimed those two slots, so here we are in later summ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 Updated: 2011-07-18 14:27:23 Description: And so it comes to this: one determined, no-longer-a-boy-wizard versus one living incarnation of evil, facing off in a battle to the death. Meanwhile, millions of loving fans watch on, thinking, This is the culmination of all my dreams made real, whi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Oliver Schmitz on LIFE, ABOVE ALL Updated: 2011-07-15 20:42:35 Description: Maybe you’re gonna weep at the tale of a child paying a steep price for a community’s silence. Maybe you’re gonna take heart at the thought that one voice, breaking through that silence, can rescue not just the child, but all those ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cinefantastique Spotlight: JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD and ZOOKEEPER Updated: 2011-07-11 14:59:06 Description: How does a review show handle the situation where two, exciting, soon-to-be-classic films are released on the same weekend? We don’t know, but this weekend saw the release of JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD and the Kevin James comedy, ZOOKEEPER, so we ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Tully on SEPTIEN Updated: 2011-07-08 18:11:15 Description: It’s hard to put a precise finger on the nature of Michael Tully’s SEPTIEN. I’m starting to think of it as kind of a Southern gothic chamber piece with epic ambitions, a family comedy-drama that at points incorporates inquests into ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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