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Atomic Eden – Movie Review

Atomic Eden – Movie Review

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With a name like Atomic Eden, you might expect this film from Nico Sentner to be a Mad Max style adventure through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but the reality of this 80’s movie throwback may surprise you. Fred Williamson stars as Stoker, the grizzled veteran of many unnamed, covert special ops missions who is assembling the team, one last time. Film buffs will no doubt be aware of Williamson’s fame in the 70’s as the star of many Blaxploitation features like Black Caesar and Hell Up In Harlem with filmmaker Larry Cohen, whom I’ve written about in the past on Popgeeks here. Going into the 80’s, Williamson became a favorite of Italian action directors and starred in overseas productions like The Inglorious Bastards and for fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, 1990: The Bronx Warriors. Upon first seeing the title Atomic Eden, I was convinced Williamson was returning to participating in a film like Warriors of the Wasteland that would find him clad in makeshift armor driving through a desert to

Steve Mitchell, King Cohen Director Interview

Steve Mitchell, King Cohen Director Interview

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Steve Mitchell, King Cohen Director, is a renaissance man with work in the comics, film and TV industries since the 1980’s. Recently he set his sights on telling the story of a filmmaker from the 1970’s who gained a cult following by doing film’s his way. I recently reviewed King Cohen for Popgeeks.net here and was lucky enough to chat with the director about bringing the life of Larry Cohen to the screen in documentary form. Adam Pope: As a fan of the genre, I’m aware that you had a lot of work in the comic book industry as an inker and artist on such books as Iron Man and Batman over the years. Was a creative career always a goal for you growing up? Steve Mitchell: It was. I wasn’t sure how I was going to make a living at it in the beginning, but I was always attracted to the idea of working in the creative arena which, for me, was a career working in comics. I grew

King Cohen Is On A Rampage – Documentary Film Review

King Cohen Is On A Rampage – Documentary Film Review

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According to King Cohen, a new documentary from director Steve Mitchell, the filmmaker Larry Cohen is a bulldozer of creative force who broke through “the rules” of Hollywood to create a slew of films that shattered racial stigmas and skirted the boundaries of good taste. By looking back over the life and career of this writer-director-producer, Mitchell reveals an inspiring story that like his subject, manages to provide pure, unadulterated entertainment. I had heard rumors of this documentary through passing mentions on some of my favorite movie podcast and blogs over the last few years, but the name Larry Cohen meant nothing to me. Even after hearing familiar movie titles like It’s Alive, The Stuff and Phone Booth, I realized I had never actually seen his work. We all make mistakes. As a voracious consumer of movie industry related documentaries, when a film opens with an anecdote by JJ Abrams about meeting Larry Cohen at a Los Angeles bus stop, it becomes instantly clear that it’s for film nerds. You