The Bottom Shelf: Dracula, Blacula, and Troma on Demand

What new horrors await us on DVD this month? Oh, and its success also led to the subsequent release ofBlackenstein, which speaks for itself. With one insanely nonsensical vamp-transformation (vampformation?) Slightly more agreeable (though only just) is theBreakfast Clubgone-to-hell that is Matthew SpradlinsHaunting Of Crestview High. as a weary Ben Browder (Farscape) is the janitor tasked with cleaning up their mess. Some inventive death scenes aside, this excursion into po-mo masturbation is luckily pretty brief....

December 2, 2014 · 1 min · 88 words · Tanya Grant

Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte interview: Walt Jr, Better Call Saul

Were a year on and more fromBreaking Badnow. What do you think its legacy is and will be? Its growing and its continuing to grow. I think it will definitely live on; its already having an amazing afterlife. Ad content continues below Whats your favourite memory from making the show? I loved the pilot. Do you feel your characters storyline was short-changed in any way at all? Would you have preferred a more involved arc, particularly in the last season?...

December 1, 2014 · 5 min · 856 words · Kevin Powell

5 Book to Movie Adaptation Changes That Made Perfect Sense

Here are some of our favourite amendments in adaptations. Changes which show that, occasionally, adapting really can be key. In the book, Carrie slows the blood down in her mothers body until her heart stops. Its gripping and the kind of personal, intimate murder that stays with you long after reading the book. Kings description of that event even now gives people the chills, and for good reason. Yet for the film, it was hard to imagine what could have been done to match that effect....

November 28, 2014 · 2 min · 272 words · Sarah Rogers

Ari Folman interview: The Congress, Nolan, Kubrick

The Congress is a film of abrupt plot turns and dizzying psychedelia. So it was really tough. And it takes a long time anyway, to make a picture. What inspired you to take Stanislaw Lems book, and set it in the film industry? Well, I first read his book when I was 16, and then again in film school. I purchased the novel for adaptation, but I had no idea what I was going to do....

November 28, 2014 · 7 min · 1290 words · Curtis Evans

The Babadook Review

A widow and her son battle grief and a malevolent entity in this powerful horror debut. Here’s our review of The Babadook… The best horror films are always about something else. When that clicks without being too obvious or heavy-handed you usually have a great horror movie on your hands. Ad content continues below Introducing the Babadook into this fragile dynamic creates an almost unbearable tension. That is the true horror ofThe Babadook....

November 28, 2014 · 1 min · 114 words · Thomas Cherry

Cliff Martinez interview: The Knick, Soderbergh, composing for film and games

Composer Cliff Martinez has carved a reputation as one of the most distinctive film composers in modern cinema. Was this something you were keen to explore from an early stage? Period dramas tend to have a sound thats derived very much from the time in which theyre set. Are genre preconceptions something you take in to account when approaching a project like this? Ad content continues below Yeah, I think it depends on the genre....

November 27, 2014 · 6 min · 1115 words · Katie Horton

Why The 90s Were Nickelodeon’s Golden Age

So what made Nickelodeon so great in the 90s? Another huge success for Nick were its Nicktoons. For example would there have been aSouth ParkorFamily GuywithoutThe Ren & Stimpy Show? Real MonstersandHey Arnold!all of which had the orange blood of Nick running through them. What really marked the 90s as the golden age for Nickelodeon for me though were its comedies and drama. Then there wasClarissa Explains It Allwhich had the honor of being the first Nick show with a female lead....

November 27, 2014 · 1 min · 183 words · Jaclyn Booth

The Hunger Games, Interstellar, and the Necessity of “Female Stuff”

***This article contains spoilers forThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1andInterstellar. Ad content continues below Im with Dormer, except for the part about gender being irrelevant. A major theme inMockingjayis rebranding, especially of the female characters. Theres your Mockingjay, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) proudly tells Coin. But Katniss isnt the only one whose image has to be massaged. And yes, Peeta too becomes a mouthpiece, albeit for the Capitol. But his rebranding comes via torture and brainwashing, whereas Katniss and Coin accept their image makeovers as necessary....

November 26, 2014 · 2 min · 285 words · Zachary Haynes

David Heyman interview: producing Paddington

This article contains spoilers for Paddington, and is probably best read after watching the film. Heres how it went… Film making is iterative, and never any less than in the screenwriting phase. Years ago, I read a Hamish MacColl draft of Paddington that was very different. Its almost so long ago that I cant remember those dead ends. Ive been living very much in what we were trying to solve more recently....

November 25, 2014 · 3 min · 498 words · Christina Villanueva

Celebrating Syndicate: the ultimate videogame dystopia

It was violent, thought-provoking and insidiously addictive. Ryan looks back at Bullfrog’s 1993 tactical classic, Syndicate… It seems odd, then, thatSyndicatedidnt get more negative press than it did. Having successfully completed a mission, that part of the map came under the control of your burgeoning corporation. There was one mission, in particular, which summed up the elegance ofSyndicates design. Now, there were at least two ways you could do this....

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 202 words · Scott Mcbride

Splitting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay and Blockbuster Television

This is not to say thatMockingjayis in any danger of underperformingits not. And quite frankly, the movie is indisputably a good experience at the multiplex. Yet, therein lies the problem. Its the exposition-laden first half of a story thats a year a way from ending. Perhaps it will be the moment that the ratings soured for Blockbuster Television. The bigger the budget, then the bigger the need to satisfy a larger audience....

November 24, 2014 · 2 min · 315 words · Cynthia Barrett

Sting: A History Through Matches

We follow iconic wrestler Sting’s career through a retelling of some of his greatest matches! Here are some matches to check out in preparation for Stings possible return. Even if he doesnt, its a great journey to take. Airing againstWrestleMania IV, the NWA intended to make their free event something to talk about. The crowd certainly felt that way as both Sting and Flair received wild reactions. The NWA also sought to emulate some of theWrestleManiaformula, adding in a few special stipulations....

November 24, 2014 · 5 min · 1002 words · Tammy Snyder

The Simpsons: Covercraft Review

The Simpsons cover themselves in Covercraft but fall flat. Here is our review. Lame, yes lame. The B-sharps gave us George Harrison and who do we get in the reboot? Why didnt they lay Huey Lewis on us too? This episode was a flat root beer tequila float well within the speed limits. The B-Flats was a classic episode and proved Homer a songwriter. Homer was a one man band playing Archie Bell and the Drells when he was a teenager....

November 24, 2014 · 3 min · 549 words · Ryan Miles