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Win Tickets to the TFH/Barnsdall presentation of ELECTION!
We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to this Saturday’s presentation of Election at the TFH/Barnsdall School Nights series! Ron Yerxa, the…
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Back to School with Trailers From Hell!
To make the return to late night study sessions a little less painful, Trailers From Hell has partnered with Barnsdall Art Park Foundation to present a…
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Witchfinder General
The troubled young British director Michael Reeves was credited with only three films and then, just as his star was ascending, died…
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The Legend of Hell House
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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Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Fave Heist Films
Drive Hard, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s latest ‘Crime Against Cinema’ is all over VOD this week (see the links at the end of this…
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Joe Dante ‘Buries the Ex’ in Venice!
Our Fearless Leader’s new film, Burying The Ex, premieres today at the Venice Film Festival. The touching story of “Boy meets girl,…
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Brian Trenchard Smith Puts the Pedal to the Metal with DRIVE HARD
Brian Trenchard-Smith has, by his own estimation, directed “42 crimes against cinema”… which brings us to his latest filmmaking infraction, Drive Hard starring John Cusack and…
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The Beast Must Die
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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DeMille’s Call Sheets
A friend passed on these pieces of moviemaking memorabilia. They’re call sheets for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments starring, naturally, Charlton…
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TFH is Turning Japanese
Our friends at Maxam Inc. (a dvd and film distributor in Japan) have just released a brand new compilation of their favorite…
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Lord Love A Duck
If you are in the mood for an unhinged parody of the beach-blanket-teen-flesh movies of the early to mid-’60s – and when…
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The House that Dripped Blood
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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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Next week at TFH we’re featuring a modest tribute to Bela! … Lugosi, of course. The films include Invisible Ghost (helmed by Gun…
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Touch of Evil
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in “Touch of Evil” in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s…
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The Return of Zulu to the Big Screen
No home theater can contain Zulu, director Cy Endfield’s panoramic adventure tale pitting a small band of British soldiers against a swarm of Zulu warriors…
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
Next week at TFH features a trio of trippy films gathered together under the banner “Just Say No”. They include Requiem for…
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars
The Curiosity rover has begun snooping about for evidence of life on Mars. I’ll be watching those pictures closely for evidence of…
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Tashlinesque – The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin
In all of Frank Tashlin’s work, there is nothing quite so boldly staged as the delirious sequence in 1961′s THE LADIES MAN, in…
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Tales That Witness Madness
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 Howling
For the dog days of summer, what could be better than a movie with some canine teeth? And some claws. And a…
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By The Sword
Warning; this post is long… if you watch all the links, you’ll have an hour of entertainment. When I was 10, my school…
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Dick Smith – The Original Transformer
Legendary Special Effects Make-Up master Dick Smith created the primordial transformations for 1981’s Altered States and Altered States would be a fitting job title for the…
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The Real Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Roger Corman sat down with Conan O’Brien last week for a spirited interview (promoting his latest Sy-Fy spectacular, Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda) turning in a charismatic performance that provoked…
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Revisiting a Cruel and Unusual Punishment
With last week’s news about a federal judge in California declaring the state’s death penalty “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore unconstitutional along with this…
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Morrison’s Grave – An Unsolved Mystery
Since we’re running Allan Arkush’s commentary on Oliver Stone’s The Doors this week, I thought it might be fun to share a story with you.…