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The Atomo-Vision of Joe Dante at the American Cinematheque
The American Cinematheque pays to tribute to the singular (some may say Atomic-powered) vision of director Joe Dante with a four…
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THE CAREY TREATMENT
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video…
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PETER, CHRISTOPHER AND VINCENT!
It’s a Throwback Thursday behind the Velvet Curtain, and no, don’t expect a picture of me in a blue baby bonnet, or…
Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks
The Wild Bunch
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video…
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MAD MAX: BEYOND FURIOUS
You can practically feel the whole drive-in history of revenge-oriented biker pictures come roaring up from behind and crashing through the beginning…
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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EARL HOFERT (AND DAVID LETTERMAN)
At this writing we are about a week away from May 20, 2015, which will mark an event that many of us,…
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SCI-FI SHORT ENDS: ROBOTS, HEROES AND MOVIE DREAMS
With the leap from Siri to Samantha, the seductive and increasingly sentient computer program heard (but never seen) in Spike Jonze’s Her,…
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The Nitrate Picture Show at The Eastman House
If you’re in or anywhere near Rochester, New York, your weekend activity should be set, because something big is happening at the…
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10 YEARS OF CINEMACADEMIC SLIFR MOVIE QUIZZES
“You all know me… You know how I make my livin’…” Quint (Robert Shaw), Jaws Well, the truth is, you probably don’t…
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The Artemis Women in Action Film Festival
In the beginning there was Helen Gibson. Gibson was a rodeo star in the early days of the 20th century who moved…
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FLOATING IN THE OCEAN OF HELENA LEE
In writer-director Jim Akin’s The Ocean of Helena Lee, the first thing you may notice about 12-year-old Helena Lee (and the young…
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Godard, 3D, Noir City and Goodbye to Stan Freberg
Every time I step into a warehouse discount store I can see about 11 different reasons to not get excited about the…
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TRAILERS FROM HELL & SPOKE ART present an INVASION!
“THEY’RE HERE ALREADY! YOU’RE NEXT!!” Trailers From Hell is proud to announce our collaboration with Spoke Art and San Francisco’s historic Roxie…
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SHORT ENDS FROM TCM FEST 2015
Another year, my sixth at the TCM Classic Film Festival, is in the books, and I’m exhausted! Fourteen movies over four days…
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Win tickets to Heavy Traffic at the Aero!
TFH guru and man-about-town Larry Karaszewski is hosting a double bill featuring Ralph Bakshi’s outrageous animation landmark, Heavy Traffic alongside his raucous 1981…
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STARING DOWN THE 2015 TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL
Starting today, it’s down the rabbit hole once again to revel in Hollywood’s past glories (and international cinema’s too) at the 2015…
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At the Devil’s Door
Sometimes getting there is more than half the fun. When it comes to genre storytelling, the buildup toward a presumably satisfying conclusion…
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RIP Ib Melchior
TFH regrets the passing of one-time TFH Guru, novelist, screenwriter, producer and director Ib Melchior, who gave us THE ANGRY RED PLANET,…
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The Boys From Brazil
In 1978 I was a college student majoring in film studies, as well as a mid-lapse Catholic, so the ripples of flabbergasted…
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Joe Dante Puts On His X-Ray Specs
Roger Corman fans will be in hog heaven come this May when Kino Lorber Studio Classics releases one of his seminal films on…
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Joe Dante is Prematurely Burying the Ex
Joe Dante has been thinking a lot lately about dead bodies that won’t stay dead. Case in point, his upcoming Zom-Com, Burying…
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Chainsaw Confidential & An Oscar Postscript
Another movie-mad installment from Dennis Cozzalio, this week tackling Gunnar Hansen’s memoir on the making of that out-of-control horror classic The Texas…
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The Oscars
The first Oscar show I ever saw was the 42nd annual gala, honoring the movies of 1969. Of course I hadn’t seen…
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Introducing… Fear of the Velvet Curtain
We’re excited to announce a new feature here at TFH, a weekly column from one of our favorite writers on film, Dennis…
Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks
Tale of the Dean’s WIfe
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video…
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The Birds
Let’s dip into the Alfred Hitchcock catalog again – and no, the wine pairing isn’t brandy. That’s too easy, and it works…