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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

Joe Dante To Direct Camp Cold Brook

Joe Dante To Direct Camp Cold Brook

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Director Joe Dante of Gremlins fame is now working on a horror movie called Camp Cold Brook. It’s about the crew of a “reality” TV show that goes on fake ghost hunts for ratings. This movie belonging to the genre that it does, the crew is about to encounter some REAL spooks — at Camp Cold Brook, the location of a deadly thirty-child drowning 20 years ago. Now the kids are coming back! The film’s distributor, October Coast, revealed today who would star in the movie. The headliners will be Danielle Harris (Halloween) and Chad Michael Murray, of TV’s One Tree Hill and the ONE PERSON who wouldn’t reprise his role in Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life. We still don’t know what that was about. Maybe he was filming this instead? Rounding out the cast are Courtney Gains (The Burbs, Children of the Corn), Michael Eric Reid (TV’s Victorious),Candice De Visser (The Funhouse Massacre), Mary Kathryn Bryant (Hellraiser : Judgement), Loren Lodesma (A.S.K), and Jason Van Eman (1

Pop Geeks’ Flashback Interview: Belinda Balaski

Pop Geeks’ Flashback Interview: Belinda Balaski

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I was first introduced to my next interview subject when I visited a Blockbuster video store during a visit to my uncle’s house in 1996. We rented several movies that weekend, and one of them was Amazon Women On The Moon. A wild compilation of sketches, one that stood out was a sketch called “Roast Your Loved One”, where wakes were turned into roasts. The widow of Archie Hahn’s Harvey Pitnik was named Bernice, and she was played by Belinda Balaski. She got some great lines in that sketch. 15 years later, I befriended Belinda Balaski on Facebook and acquired her autograph. I knew that she had done a lot of work with Joe Dante, a very underrated director, and I saw that she was a gifted painter, too. With such diverse talents, I knew she would make a great interview subject. We spoke in June, and now it’s time for us to Flashback again. Say hello to Belinda Balaski! —————- Johnny: What were your pop-cultural likes growing up, like