There’s also a live concert she did in Germany in 1954 where she sings “I Cover the Waterfront” with Carl Drinkard on piano, and it’s Billie at her best. When she sings a lyric like “the great unknown,” she’s in touch with the great unknown, and she makes you in touch with it, too. Frank … Read more
Marvel will be releasing the first issue of the four-part limited series Capwolf & the Howling Commandos this October Back in 1992, in the pages of Captain America #405, readers got to see the titular hero get turned into a werewolf – and of course this werewolf version of the character was called Capwolf. This … Read more
1984 Publishing is releasing a Making Of Sleepaway Camp retrospective book with a vinyl EP to celebrate the film’s 40th anniversary. “Longtime official Sleepaway Camp webmaster, writer, and filmmaker, Hayes goes behind the scenes of the film like never before, revealing the development and making of the movie, its immediate aftermath, and the more than … Read more
The author of the Friday the 13th Part 2 retrospective Sackhead is now writing a Friday the 13th Part III retrospective called Jason 3D Earlier this year, author R. G. Henning sent the book Sackhead: The Definitive Retrospective on Friday the 13th Part 2 – a 277 page book entirely dedicated to 1981’s Friday the 13th … Read more
Legendary Comics and DC Comics are teaming up for the crossover limited series Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong Legendary Entertainment has been building a MonsterVerse on the big screen with Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kongand the franchise will continue with Godzilla x Kong: The New … Read more
BB: I didn’t interview the figures for the book, I wrote their chapters based on their pasts, research, and my longtime awareness of them. I met Gregory several years ago when we were picked up together at Boston Logan Airport to present at the same conference in New Hampshire. CE: What other books have you … Read more
Eight years have passed since the last feature by “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” director Michel Gondry. His at least semi-autobiographical new comedy-drama “The Book of Solutions” (also in the Directors’ Fortnight section) offers a slightly alarming yet endearingly whimsical pseudo-explanation for why it’s taken him so long to make another movie. Centered on … Read more
Like Smurfs, each character gets just one attribute. The male characters all get the same one: unconditional adoration of the fabulous creature to whom they are lucky enough to be able to devote their full time and attention because they have no other interests, wishes, obligations, or, indeed, reasons to exist except to be Perfect … Read more
Master Roddy McDowell, as he’s credited, plays the youngest observer in the valley, the one who witnesses the births and deaths and loves and marriages and betrayals. The film is one of the near-musicals of which Ford was so fond. Song was one of the few languages that can communicate like the moving image, and … Read more
Child’s Play director Tom Holland has released the book Child’s Play: A Visual Memoir, packed with pictures and recollections Director Tom Holland has recently been revisiting his classic projects with books. He teamed up with A. Jack Ulrich to write a novel called Fright Night: Originswhich kicks off a trilogy of books set in the … Read more