Hudlin has enjoyed a long and prosperous career and now, thankfully, Hollywood is taking notice.

Today auteur Quentin Tarantino unleashes his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, on American audiences. To coincide with this release, I would like to take a look back at the filmmaker’s earliest effort, a $5,000 unfinished Howard Hawks-esque ...

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

When David C. Hayes’ indie black-and-white graphic novel Rottentail was first unleashed on an unsuspecting public back in 2005, no one expected it to attain the immense and lasting popularity it has since enjoyed. But here we are fourteen years ...

Coming off two successful films with a significant cult following (Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99), screenwriter/director S. Craig Zahler seemed like a guy who could do no wrong. And then he did, even though he didn’t really. ...

Ask any heterosexual American female and she’ll verify the following: for whatever reason, the majority of men in the United States actively resist romance films. Sure, the more cerebral male viewer will defend this by questioning the merits of the ...

In 1972, the legendary Italian progressive rock band Goblin was established under the short-lived name Oliver. The band then changed their moniker to Cherry Five, releasing a self-titled album. Eventually they settled upon their more famous name, Goblin, and collaborated ...

A month ago, Manhattan writer/director Brandon Kelley’s powerful 35mm short The Real Thing was an obscure little film that hadn’t been seen outside the festival circuit. But then Kelley and company introduced the film to the rest of the world ...

This past year saw the reemergence of Spike Lee as a filmmaking powerhouse with his latest effort BlackKklansman, the true story of a black cop’s unlikely integration into the Ku Klux Klan. With the critical success of Klansman, many people ...

Screenwriter Shane Black revolutionized the buddy-cop action movie with Lethal Weapon (1987) at the age of 23. The film ultimately became a gigantic hit, served as the launching pad for a successful franchise and television series, and established Black as ...