Composer Bear McCreary has some thoughts on writing the music for Deathstalker (2025) and working with Slash, Chuck Cirino and Brendan McCreary! It includes a glorious music video. “Vivid memories of countless nights spent watching bad cult movies with my childhood friends flooded my mind, accompanied by the […]
At Empire, John Woo talked a bit about making a musical with Ron and Russell Mael. Read that here. And more recently at Variety, Ron and Russell Mael talk about making a movie with John Woo in an interview about Sparks’ Mad album. Read that here.
This week’s Guest Star Michelle Kisner writes about Tetsuro Takeuchi’s Wild Zero (1999). Keep up with her on Instagram at @robotcookie! ~~~ Guitar Wolf is more than just a band; it’s an idea. Although they are known for their loud and untamed “jet rock ‘n’ roll,” they also […]
“I don’t wanna quit, I just wanna be in control of it” – Becky Something, Her Smell (2018) Some movies challenge you. Difficult to watch, grappling with heady or uncomfortable themes or ideas, or just straight-up disorienting as the stupid camera swirls around like you’re on the Gravitron […]
Absolute Beginners first crossed my radar last week when a friend showed me a clip of David Bowie dancing on a typewriter. “Big deal,” scoffed I, a connoisseur of Indian cinema. “Merchant and Ivory did that with Hindi superstars ages ago.”* Discovering that David Bowie could tap dance […]
Our friends at the Feminine Critique podcast watch Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and Macoto Tezuka’s The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985). “There will be rock zombies!” Listen here.
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